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CRE risk management: Navigating hazards and opportunities

Abrigo

Bankers should examine warning signs and shore up defenses for existing income-producing CRE loans as part of commercial property loan risk management. But understanding trends in their own portfolios and local markets can allow lenders to identify risk-appropriate CRE credits.

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How Federal Debt May Impact Banking

South State Correspondent

The relationship between federal deficits and interest rates may depend on many complex factors, such as: whether tax rate changes, money supply changes, government spending changes, or political and economic stability worldwide accompany the deficits. With time, these changes will only amplify.

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How to increase efficiency and minimize risk in the audit process using analytics

Abrigo

Since leaving public accounting, she has been an internal auditor, a tax preparer and a controller. The goal is to do less work while managing an appropriate level of risk. Analytics can more effectively focus firm resources. Analytics can more effectively focus firm resources.

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Remembering 9/11 – A Pivotal Day for BSA/AML Professionals

Abrigo

BSA was intended to detect illicit activity through cash and monetary instruments to catch tax evaders using secret foreign bank accounts. BSA teams began hiring for skill sets that included analytical and investigative thinking. Regulatory scrutiny became ever-present, knowing that the security of their homeland was at stake.

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Treasurers Failing To Use Tech To Combat FX Risk, Deloitte Finds

PYMNTS

In a survey of treasurers across more than 200 companies in various parts of the globe, Deloitte found that the corporate treasurer continues to be positioned as a risk-management function of organizations: 97 percent said that the treasurers’ role in liquidity risk management is important.

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Corporates Step Up To Welcome AI, Blockchain

PYMNTS

Boards of directors and executive management teams cannot afford to manage risks casually on a reactive basis, especially considering the rapid pace of disruptive innovation and technological developments in an ever-advancing digital world.”.

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Siron Financial Crime Solutions Are Moving from FICO to IMTF

FICO

Siron’s anti-financial crime solutions provide organizations with analytics-driven applications for end-to-end financial crime compliance. The suite includes SironAML (Anti Money Laundering), SironKYC (Know Your Customer), SironEMBARGO (Sanctions Screening) and SironTCR (Tax Compliance) with associated case management and reporting.