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Get your ducks in a row: HVCRE risk management

Abrigo

In a recent Sageworks webinar Robert Ashbaugh, senior risk management consultant at Sageworks, discusses High Volatility Commercial Real Estate (HVCRE) lending best practices. How did we get here? Ashbaugh’s presentation begins with a quick summary of why regulators care about HVCRE.

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Community Banking According to Andy

Jeff For Banks

8/ @Schornack It is a niche that has only grown over time and one that has shown very little net losses since we started making these loans around the U of M in 2005-2006. 14/ @Schornack Strong expense management structures allow the SMB more flexibility then to further invest in strong staff and improved client experiences.

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Are you diversifying your portfolio appropriately?

Abrigo

It is only natural for community banks to have loan concentrations that result from the market(s) they serve and the markets they pursue. In today’s times, a high commercial real estate (CRE) concentration is often the result of community banks pursuing opportunity in the market. Blog Bank Credit Union'

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Amazon-Owned AbeBooks’ Online Bookselling Tool Fillz Is Shuttering

PYMNTS

AbeBooks acquired Fillz in 2006. “We Fillz has been part of the AbeBooks community since 2006, so this was a difficult decision to make,” said AbeBooks’ Richard Davies. “We Fillz is a division of AbeBooks, a company purchased by Amazon in 2008. No extensions will be allowed,” the notice said.

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What #Banking Trend Will Have the Greatest Impact on Your Bank?

Jeff For Banks

The Fed has paused for nearly a year now, and it was our experience in 2006-07 that bank cost of funds continued to increase as the market closed the delta between what someone could earn in a money market mutual fund and a bank account. Depositors woke up and thought "what is my bank paying me?" Cost of funds is leveling off now.

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Growing a new branch

Independent Banker

community bank during the pandemic. The community bank, which was started de novo in 2006, already had numerous commercial clients in the city; they had been referred by existing customers of Providence Bank’s five existing locations, clustered about 45 minutes east of Raleigh. Ted Whitehurst, Providence Bank. “We

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Putting excess liquidity to work in today’s low-rate environment

Abrigo

A storm of events that have defined 2020 leaves many community financial institutions today in the position where balance sheets are awash with liquidity and competitive markets are squeezing rates on good quality loans to lower-than- comfortable levels. Credit Risk Management. Credit Risk Management. CRE Lending. Learn More.

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