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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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New Digital Taxes Loom On Tech Firms In Europe

PYMNTS

Amid the continuing drumbeat for taxes on global commerce done through digital means, the Czech government has approved a new seven percent digital tax on global Internet firms which will, as Reuters reports , be levied on revenues tied to Czech users across advertising, digital marketplaces and data sales.

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Lending Is Failing To Live Up To 2018’s Great Expectations

PYMNTS

regional bank executives were gearing up for a bumper year, according to Bloomberg. Crediting lower taxes, thanks to the end of the year tax reform bill passed by Congress, regional bank executives saw a sudden and notable pick up in both commercial loan demand and a big jump in spending on credit and debit cards.

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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. The importantance of the BSA tole came to be paramount to the entrie risk management program and included as part of the federal safety and soundness examinations.

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LendingClub: Loan Applications Grow Double Digits Amid Rising Rates  

PYMNTS

Management pointed to tightening credit standards even as rising rates helped boost results, trends that are likely to continue. During the question-and-answer session, management pointed to the recently-announced partnership with Intuit as delivering data-driven credit services to Turbo Tax users.

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The Current Banking Crisis – 10 Not So Apparent Lessons

South State Correspondent

While we wrote about the root cause of the failure of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) HERE , the lessons of the current banking crisis go beyond interest rate risk management. While interest rate risk caused the most significant impact on value, several other factors contributed to the terminality of each bank that was closed.

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Expanding credit portfolios: 3 Growing pains

Abrigo

But, while there is no silver bullet for understanding borrowers at the onset, the bank can create risk-mitigation strategies, which will in part include more objective and defensible credit analysis procedures. While this form of education is successful, it has to be supplemented with formal training.

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