Abrigo

MAY 11, 2021

Takeaway 1 Global cash flow can provide a more holistic lending picture as lending decisions have become more complex. Many financial institutions use global cash flow analysis in their lending process. A common misstep seen in lending departments is the belief that a guarantor improves an applicant’s credit quality.

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Critical capital Should CRE lending be off the table? Recent headlines may lead bankers to believe that shunning commercial real estate lending is the safest path to limit or avoid credit risk, given stresses on CRE and regulatory concerns. But that might not be the best move for your financial institution or your community.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Donald Trump and his administration could pull back on leveraged lending guidelines in the U.S., paving the way for banks to lend more to highly indebted companies and encourage more buyout deals. Trump, noted the report, is going after higher growth by letting companies repatriate overseas cash and by pledging to cut taxes. “We

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

And regulators are taking a close look at payroll advance apps. Report: The Risky Business of Navigating Online Sales Tax for Merchants. While consumers are flocking to eCommerce, merchants working on expanding and selling online in more markets must comply with local sales tax regulations.

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CFPB Monitor

OCTOBER 20, 2021

A group of 96 organizations and individuals, who describe themselves as consisting of “consumer, labor, civil rights, legal services, faith, community and financial organizations and academics,” have sent a letter to the CFPB urging the Bureau to regulate fee-based earned wage access (EWA) products as credit subject to the Truth in Lending Act.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is asking for hearings in Congress on why Wall Street is lending money to private prisons that house undocumented immigrants, according to reports. The committee plays a big role in determining policies for the banking industry , as well as for hedge funds and insurance companies. New York Rep.

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Abrigo

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Takeaway 3 Meanwhile, regulators continue to reinforce the importance of lenders knowing customers and beneficial owners. Even after redoing this certification, borrowers may then still be declined on the same application due to another incorrect validation rule (for instance, an Applicant Tax ID issue),” the letter said.

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PYMNTS

JULY 26, 2020

“Our charter application incorporates truly novel ideas that have received detailed scrutiny from multiple regulators,” Caitlin Long , CEO and founder of Avanti, said in the release. ” Avanti intends to use Avit, an equivalent to cash that is nicknamed a “stablecoin disruptor,” according to the release.

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Abrigo

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

In such an environment, community banks should focus on the power of their relationships with customers, according to Kent Kirby, a retired banker with 39 years of experience in all aspects of commercial banking; lending, loan review, back-room operations, portfolio management, portfolio analytics, and credit policy. The result?

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BankUnderground

MAY 22, 2024

Some countries restrict lending to borrowers with high debt-servicing burdens There are different metrics that measure a household’s debt-servicing burden. It is calculated by taking a household’s mortgage payments (including interest and principal) and dividing them by their pre-tax income.

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American Banker

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Mnuchin speaks: Steven Mnuchin discussed his views on regulatory and tax policies Wednesday after being named President-elect Trump's designated Treasury secretary. Speaking on CNBC, Mnuchin said he would focus on rolling back parts of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law.

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Abrigo

AUGUST 19, 2020

Imposter scams, money mule schemes, tax fraud, charity solicitations, and cybercrime exploitation methods have all found solid ground to twist a known fraud typology in something that looks legitimate during the fears of the pandemic. Lending & Credit Risk. Member Business Lending. SBA Lending. C&I Loans.

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BankUnderground

JULY 29, 2020

This post reviews the literature that considers the channels via which the shock affects the economy, and the macroeconomic policy options for dealing with the aftermath, taking as given the shock caused by the virus and the lockdown. Monetary Policy. Fiscal Policy. Real Flow Variables (Goods Demand and Supply).

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2017

Calling the legislation — which put capital and other requirements in place in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis — “a great start,” Paul Merski, executive vice president of Congressional relations and strategy at Independent Community Bankers of America, said smaller banks will be able to increase lending activity. But it’s risky.”.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

The blueprint for the proposed digital currency seems to offer Beijing extraordinary supervision over the flow of money, giving regulators economic control that most central banks do not have. “We

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PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2020

Most small businesses don’t have a lending relationship with a bank. Other ideas include more government action regarding competitive regulation. In Washington State, Frey said that “for every $1 it invests in a Main Street program, there is a $13 return to the public coffer” in the form of taxes and fees.

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BankUnderground

APRIL 28, 2023

The reforms aimed to ensure that banks have sufficient capital resources to absorb losses and reduce the cyclical effects of bank capital (and regulation) on the supply of bank credit in stress. Additionally, regulators in various jurisdictions have been trying to create simpler (but not weaker) regulatory frameworks for small banks.

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Abrigo

JULY 12, 2021

The report shines a light on corruption, tax fraud, drug trafficking, and labor trafficking as being linked to environmental crime. This illicit activity has been somewhat under the radar and extremely profitable for bad actors, generating billions of dollars due to relatively low sanctions policies. BSA Rules and Regulation.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 5, 2017

policy changes may be writ large and small; particularly in Dimon’s own banking industry, his concerns cover expansive ground. being told to depart as a harbinger of pressures to come, even as corporate taxes have been, as he sees it, high enough to move businesses to seek opportunities beyond U.S.

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Independent Banker

MARCH 31, 2022

We must also keep our focus on protecting the 2017 tax cuts and, as always, monitoring and confronting credit union overreach. Lucas White: We need to continue to differentiate community banks and educate policymakers on why tiered and proportionate regulation is necessary. We are not Wall Street banks—we are community banks.

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Millions of dollars in suspicious activity were not reported to FinCEN in a timely or accurate manner, including those connected to tax evasion, illegal gambling, money laundering, and other financial crimes. . If your CDD program is not intact, now is the time to tighten things up and watch for new regulations. Learn More.

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Abrigo

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Regulators expect financial institutions to develop loan review or credit review systems tailored to their specific risks and circumstances. While a late financial statement isn’t unimportant, banks typically don’t lose money from policy exceptions,” Kirby said. Make sure to look at lien perfection, tax payments, and insurance.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

Honesty is the best policy. In this world, the only things certain are death and taxes. Marketplace lending. The blockchain can even end world poverty and transform society by making it safer for total strangers to lend each other money — without any third-party intermediary — and without any risk. Marketplace Lending.

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Even as nearly one-third of Americans are already members of a credit union, it seems there’s almost nothing the NCUA still won’t try to further expand the market reach and special tax-exempt privileges of the credit unions it supervises. Talk about your captive regulator! When credit unions say “jump,” the NCUA says, “how high?”.

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2017

Regulators are reportedly inquiring about how a lawyer for wealthy customers of Wells Fargo came to access so large a trove of customer information. Regulators have reportedly informally reached out to the attorneys involved in the lawsuit underlying the release of information to figure out how the data breach happened.

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Independent Banker

DECEMBER 28, 2015

With so many community bankers sending messages asking members of Congress to scrap the proposed Federal Reserve stock dividend cut along with ICBA-led advocacy, we were able to achieve a big win—community banks with $10 billion in assets and less will be exempt from this backdoor tax on only our industry. Let’s leverage that.

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Jeff For Banks

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Third, the explosion in regulations over the past eight years has served to hinder businesses, especially new small business formation, and has drained valuable resources as compliance costs soared. I have news for them; it takes a lot longer for fiscal policy to translate to growth than you think.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 15, 2018

In addition, time constraints bump up against complexities tied to everyday business processes, ranging from validating supplies to making sure taxes are paid in far-flung jurisdictions. Good payment policies lead to revenue generation for the buyers and reduce the costs of working with suppliers — who, of course, get paid earlier.

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TrustBank

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The BEA calculates the personal saving rate by subtracting taxes from personal income to arrive at “disposable personal income” and then subtracts personal outlays. Did changes to policy encourage spending at the cost of saving? The only time US personal saving has been this low was back in 2005 when it bottomed out at 2.1%.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 17, 2017

Meanwhile, data from Biz2Credit’s latest Small Business Lending Index, released last week, found small business loan approval rates at small banks and institutional investors saw increases in March, with big bank approval rates holding steady. According to Everett, there are some clear concerns for SMEs, though. “I

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CFPB Monitor

JULY 6, 2016

In its Summer 2016 Supervisory Highlights , which covers supervision work generally completed between January and April 2016, the CFPB highlights violations found by its examiners involving automobile origination, debt collection, mortgage origination, small-dollar lending, and fair lending. Small-dollar lending.

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Independent Banker

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Regulators haven’t yet broached the subject with them. That’s followed by residential mortgage lending (36.3%), small business lending (32.1%), commercial and industrial (C&I) lending (30%) and agricultural lending (23.6%). Addressing ESG is one thing,” she says. Ponce Bank in Bronx, N.Y.,

Community Bank 144

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Independent Banker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

Avoiding potential lending hazards from regulatory flood-insurance requirements. In June, five federal agencies (including FDIC, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Reserve) announced approval of a final rule that modifies regulations applying to loans secured by properties located in special flood hazard areas.

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Independent Banker

JULY 8, 2015

Department of Housing and Urban Development, say that even neutral policies that nevertheless have a disparate impact on protected classes violate the law. The majority opinion made clear that disparate-impact cases cannot rely on statistics alone and that the accuser must also cite the specific policy that causes the disparate result.

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Jeff For Banks

JUNE 2, 2023

The old borrow short, lend long strategy. Second, this can be accomplished only if the industry does not have too much influence over its regulators and if the regulators have the ability to hire, train, and retain qualified staff. Third, the regulators need adequate financial resources.

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PYMNTS

MAY 19, 2017

With the exception of waistlines and maybe taxes, 63 percent growth in anything is pretty good to see. . Banking on Baking (the other kind of baking): Banks are lending to bakers. That would, ostensibly, open up the lending spigots a bit. expected, and slightly missed the projections for the top line, at $117.5 billion. .

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 22, 2018

In one anecdote recounted by the Times , a woman brought funds to bear on cryptos, having tapped savings, insurance policies and a loan – all to the tune of $90,0000 – and is down about 90 percent. If it comes out that XRP is a security, for example, then taxes will surely hit hard. Stories abound and will continue to abound.

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