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CRE risk management: Navigating hazards and opportunities

Abrigo

Stress testing, monitoring are essential Financial institutions should challenge assumptions about CRE risk while also watching for red flags as they manage the CRE portfolio. Bankers should examine warning signs and shore up defenses for existing income-producing CRE loans as part of commercial property loan risk management.

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Regions Financial says possible capital hike would be manageable

American Banker

The regional bank told analysts that it has studied how much debt it would need to raise based on an effective post-reform capital floor of 6% of risk-weighted assets, and has determined that that increase in capital would be manageable.

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Federal Banking Regulators Seek Comments for Additional Capital for Large Banks

Perficient

The FRB and FDIC are looking to improve financial stability by limiting contagion risk ( the spread of an economic crisis from one market or region to another) by reducing the likelihood of uninsured depositors suffering loss.

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Swedish Regulator Investigating SEB Over AML Issues 

PYMNTS

A Swedish regulator has opened an investigation into SEB, one of Sweden’s largest banks, over an increasingly volatile money-laundering scandal that has adversely affected the reputation of the region’s banking industry, according to a report by the Financial Times. Stock prices have also been adversely affected.

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Chinese Regulators Take Over Nine FIs

PYMNTS

Chinese regulators have seized control of nine financial institutions (FIs) alleging they violated rules and jeopardized the country’s financial system. The move represents Beijing’s first significant regulatory action this year and comes on the heels of the bailout of some regional lenders a year ago.

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Banks Kept On Their Toes By Dizzying Data Management Regulations

PYMNTS

Data management is becoming an increasingly pressing concern for most financial institutions, as bank regulations continue to shift around the globe, according to new research. In its survey, Wolters Kluwer found that approximately 90 percent of banks say they have major concerns about data management. Regulatory Headaches.

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Bitcoin Daily: Chinese Leaders Back Regional Digital Currency Plan

PYMNTS

The think tank’s founding members encompass financiers, policymakers, regulators and technologists in addition to select firms such as Cypherium. In other news, leading political advisers in China have suggested a regional cryptocurrency, Coindesk reported.

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