The Fed took the unprecedented step of cutting rates to near zero to help ease the blow of Coronavirus and keep banks lending; banks are worried the low rates will not boost borrowing and margins will get crushed; “We are in unprecedented times for rates,” said Robert Meyer, President and CEO of the $113 million-asset Wayland State Bank in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, to American Banker. “I’m worried we’re setting a standard that’s just dangerous.”; cutting costs will most likely be the most effective route for bankers as they try to avoid a similar fate to what happened to European lenders with negative rates. American Banker