Abrigo

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Stress Testing | 7 minute read Key Takeaways Stress testing is an important component of sound risk management. Top down and bottom up analysis can inform capital assessments. Stress testing provides banks and credit unions with a unique opportunity to better manage their institution’s financial performance. .

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Abrigo

MAY 19, 2023

They should be knowledgeable of both sound lending practices and their own institution’s specific lending guidelines. In addition, they should be familiar with pertinent laws and regulations affecting credit and lending activities.

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Abrigo

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

As a loan reviewer, you need to be technically sound in order to do your job, which means you need to have a fundamental understanding of financial analysis, tax analysis, and all of the regulatory laws that surround the credits that you’re going to be reviewing,” Cooley says. Credit Analysis Training. Credit Risk Management.

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 31, 2019

The top lending and credit blog posts focused on improving loan pricing, creating a better experience for borrowers, and developing risk ratings. Those priorities are apparent in the most popular Abrigo lending and credit blog posts for the year. Popular articles about credit, lending.

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Perficient

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Retail banks respond to the Federal Reserve’s short-term interest rate adjustments with corresponding changes in lending and deposit rates. This analysis helps both current and potential clients understand the resilience of different deposit types to rising interest rates.

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Abrigo

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Adapt to a dynamic banking environment with real-time lending & credit data Lender dashboards and reports showing the lending pipeline, pricing trends, emerging risks, workflow bottlenecks, etc. You might also like this on-demand webinar, "Identifying emerging CRE risks." Explore Abrigo Connect.

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In a banking landscape that is constantly changing with new regulations, increasing competition, and other new challenges, it is critical to maximize your strategic plan's effectiveness. What insights have you gained from an in-market commercial real estate analysis? Learn to identify emerging CRE credit risk red flags.

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South State Correspondent

MAY 15, 2024

Bankers have been taught to diversify their loan portfolio to reduce idiosyncratic (individual borrower) risk and to stabilize earnings. The thinking is that diversification-induced lending leads to banking resiliency. Regulators are focused on certain CRE concentrations and categories (such as office and multifamily).

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South State Correspondent

MAY 15, 2024

Bankers have been taught to diversify their loan portfolio to reduce idiosyncratic (individual borrower) risk and to stabilize earnings. The thinking is that diversification-induced lending leads to banking resiliency. Regulators are focused on certain CRE concentrations and categories (such as office and multifamily).

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Abrigo

AUGUST 30, 2022

You might also like this webinar on commercial lending strategy. The lack of alternative options in a rising-rate environment may be a factor when deciding to expand into commercial lending. Risk management. Keys to mitigating risk. This type of analysis (e.g. CRE Lending. Lending & Credit Risk.

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Abrigo

APRIL 21, 2023

Focus loan reviews on risk in the portfolio Continuous loan review monitoring helps banks and credit unions ensure credit review systems support safe and sound lending. You might also like this webinar, "Return to basics: Asking the right credit risk questions."

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Abrigo

JUNE 5, 2023

Banking reports to inform risk management and strategy These reports on capital, growth, and liquidity help financial institutions spot warning signs. They help manage and shape strategy in volatile economic and industry conditions. Regulators review them to assess safety and soundness.

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 1, 2021

There will always be risks inherent in loan portfolios, and effective portfolio management and loan control functions are critical to the overall risk management function of banks and credit unions. Banks are required by regulators to have formal risk rating policies in place to determine how ratings are assigned.

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Blog posts to help your asset/liability management (ALM) staff strategize for the future These ALM posts were the most popular in 2022. Our top ten blogs were created by Abrigo's team, which includes former bankers, regulators, and industry experts. Lending & Credit Risk. Portfolio Risk & CECL. Learn more.

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Abrigo

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

In a survey of community banks and credit unions at the 2016 Sageworks Risk Management Summit, 42 percent of respondents said Commercial Real Estate, or CRE, lending was their primary focus for loan portfolio growth. For many, commercial real estate lending may be the ticket. This reflects a larger industry trend.

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Abrigo

APRIL 7, 2023

This is a great place to start, but the most significant impact on ROI is often associated with what can be accomplished with the additional efficiencies.

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Abrigo

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Finally, while there may be a distinction in the severity of risk of the credit exception, that assessment tends to be inherent in the exception itself rather than the subject of the exception (e.g., unsecured lending is bad rather than unsecured lending should only be extended to high pass risk rated credit).

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Regulators the world over are beginning to take a closer look at the alternative and marketplace lending business model. Also, in China, analysts at Yingcan Group pointed to the government’s P2P and marketplace lending crackdown as being likely to shrink the industry by as much as 70 percent this year. In June, the U.K.’s

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Abrigo

JUNE 17, 2015

Like other types of lending, banks must remain cautious to avoid too heavy of an agricultural concentration or too much lending within a certain ag segment. Without diversification, risks will be expounded. The challenge is that market conditions in this type of lending tend to be volatile.

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Jeff For Banks

MAY 20, 2017

And regulators are getting anxious. Today, I read an American Banker article on how a multi-billion dollar bank is going to ramp up its business lending. Reading between the lines, this bank is likely over the CRE guidance levels, and were probably getting grief from their regulators about it. Anxiety, anxiety, anxiety.

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South State Correspondent

APRIL 30, 2024

Lending Discipline : Sensible pricing methodology is part of a loan hedging program, and some hedge providers also offer a loan pricing model. More sophisticated entities can handle a higher ratio because they possess system and managerial sophistication to manage the risk.

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South State Correspondent

APRIL 30, 2024

Lending Discipline : Sensible pricing methodology is part of a loan hedging program, and some hedge providers also offer a loan pricing model. More sophisticated entities can handle a higher ratio because they possess system and managerial sophistication to manage the risk.

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Learn how a core deposit analysis helped improve this institution's forecasts. One way to find out is by allocating surplus budget money to a core deposit analysis. You can also incorporate the results into the asset/liability management model and develop stress testing scenarios down the road. Lending & Credit Risk.

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Abrigo

JULY 6, 2017

It’s been more than six months since the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) issued its revised member business lending (MBL) rule in January 2017. The NCUA recently updated the Examiner’s Guide to include what it described as a clear framework for supervisory expectations for managing a commercial lending program.

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Abrigo

MAY 2, 2022

Confident Risk Management Begins with Sound Loan Policy A risk-based approach to loan policy can effectively improve your institution's profitability. Takeaway 1 Loan policy is the foundation of a risk-focused financial institution, and it requires regular updates and monitoring to be effective.

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Jeff For Banks

MARCH 8, 2014

As financial institutions’ commercial credit portfolios have expanded in recent quarters, regulators have increasingly warned against growing so quickly that risk management standards and processes fall behind. Ensure adequate documentation is obtained for ongoing credit-risk monitoring.

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Abrigo

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Key Takeaways Effective credit risk review promotes lending agility. Many of the objectives of a credit risk review system support business goals. Regulators consider an effective loan review system vital for financial institutions’ efforts to meet safety and soundness standards.

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Celent Banking

JANUARY 22, 2015

Peer to Peer (P2P) lending is one of those situations and banks have started to experiment with it, taking P2P lending to main street. Banks are certainly not playing hide and seek with P2P lending. Regulation is an important issue for banks to get into P2P lending and depending the country, there may be restrictions.

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Abrigo

AUGUST 27, 2021

It alerts you to weaknesses in your portfolio and gives you an opportunity to correct them before regulators come in,” he says. And that will give your financial institution a competitive advantage because it allows you to stay on your growth trajectory rather than having to spend time on addressing regulators’ concerns. Learn More.

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Abrigo

MARCH 6, 2017

His recent research reports have covered SMB lending, alternative lenders and automating commercial lending. 4) @KarenGMills – Former SBA administrator in the Obama administration, Mills is now a senior fellow at Harvard Business School, writing and Tweeting about small business, lending and fintech. Learn more here.

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Abrigo

MARCH 6, 2015

While federal regulators only require this small number of banks to be subject to these particular stress tests, as outlined in the Dodd-Frank Act following the economic crisis of 2008, stress testing is becoming a critical part of financial institutions’ risk management strategies, regardless of their asset sizes.

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Abrigo

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

However, in a recent poll, 47% of banks reported that they require annual review for all loans above a certain threshold, while 54% of banks perform a full-blown analysis—as if underwriting new money—during an annual review. Profitability analysis. Make sure to look at lien perfection, tax payments, and insurance.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2018

The ONO focuses on small firms that have been unfairly treated by excessive regulation, like repeated audits and investigations, excessive fines or unfair activity on the part of a regulator.

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Abrigo

AUGUST 5, 2020

Therefore, it’s essential that the credit memo captures the complete picture of the borrower to ensure proper risk management. The first area Wear recommends bolstering is credit memo content and analysis. To provide better analysis in the credit memo, financial institutions should focus on the “why.” Learn More.

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Abrigo

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Obviously, protecting financial institutions against the impact to capital and earnings of rising interest rates has been the particular focus of regulators for more than a decade. Most analysis focuses on the outcomes of these types of scenarios, and discussion concentrates on how to limit risk tied to rising rates. Learn More.

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Abrigo

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

If the financials were imported via automation such as Sageworks Electronic Tax Return Reader , the analyst should check that she chose the correct time periods to include in the analysis. Limiting differences results in a more predictive scorecard that analysts and regulators can trust. Still, differences will occur.

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Abrigo

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Technology certainly plays a role in lowering unit costs and managing risk for many lenders. Moving from disparate spreadsheets and repetitive data entry to a web-based platform that streamlines analysis and improves consistency will shorten turnaround time. BSA Rules and Regulation. BSA Rules and Regulation.

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