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Formula for Business Lending Success: Minimize Delays

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Key Takeaways Financial institutions who want to maintain a healthy share of business lending this year and through potentially tougher economic times ahead want to be in the best position possible before trouble hits. Abrigo's Business Lending Readiness Survey found many processes stymie those efforts. learn more.

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3 Traits of a Strong Loan Reviewer – Video

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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. Risk Ratings.

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What Basic Functions Should My Loan Origination System (LOS) Perform?

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Takeaway 2 Process management features of a loan origination system help manage the workflow, from analysis through closing. Therefore, commercial loan software will have features such as: A business development component that helps the financial institution identify lending opportunities to better serve customers or members.

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Food for Thought: A Policy on Credit Exceptions

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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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One of commercial banking’s biggest challenges solved by Sageworks’ “Most Innovative” product

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Experts agree that while commercial lending is a critical banking service, it has been one of the least automated and technology-reliant aspects of banking today. A credit risk manager at one bank with $900 million in total assets estimated that her team received approximately 8,220 tax returns in the 2015 calendar year.

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CRE loan distress: Spot the symptoms, diagnose, and treat problem loans

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Here’s how banks and credit unions with strong CRE risk management can identify weakening property loans, assess them, triage them, and assist with their prognosis and treatment. Beyond a hard money default due to a payment or maturity event, early warning signs for CRE loans typically manifest as a : Failure to pay real estate taxes.

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A risk-based, time-saving approach to annual loan review

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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. Make sure to look at lien perfection, tax payments, and insurance. Profitability analysis.

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