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Optimizing small business lending: Best practices and strategies

Abrigo

Boost your small business lending efforts from the bottom up Small businesses play a crucial role in our economy, and one of the critical factors in their success is access to funding. You might also like this guide for smarter, faster small business lending.

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Examining industries: The importance of industry analysis for financial institutions

Abrigo

How industry analysis can improve your credit risk management Understanding your customers' businesses leads to better loan pricing, structure, and risk management. You might also like this webinar series, "Tackling common credit risk questions during challenging times." Get more credit risk best practices.

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Loan review – A crucial component of risk management

Abrigo

To provide bank management and the board with an objective assessment of credit quality and ongoing portfolio management 3. To serve as a critical component of a comprehensive, enterprise-wide, risk management practice 4. The beginning of all risk in the portfolio is with loan origination.

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Change management in banks and credit unions: A key to success

Abrigo

More recently, the OCC identified change management as one of its supervision priorities for the year ahead. Why change management helps banks and credit unions: Enhanced adaptability : Financial institutions are subject to numerous regulatory changes, technological advancements, and market fluctuations.

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Credit administration department housekeeping: Practical steps for improvement

Abrigo

It's about ensuring that every aspect of your lending operation is optimized for efficiency and effectiveness. Whether it's at the start of a year or some other time, focusing on these key areas will help you fine-tune your operations and set your financial institution up for success in the year ahead.

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Loan covenants refresher: What, when, why & how

Abrigo

Support credit risk management Understanding loan covenants, when financial institutions should use them, and how to monitor them supports strong lending portfolios and credit risk management best practices. They also give the lender tools to monitor and manage the situation.

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Open Banking Expands Into SMB Lending, Smaller Banks

PYMNTS

But the latest initiatives reveal a growing interest in transforming internal processes, particularly among smaller banks looking to upgrade their core infrastructure and elevate small business lending operations. Equiniti Eyes APIs for Risk Management. Bectran Augments Cash Application With API.

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