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CRE risk management: Navigating hazards and opportunities

Abrigo

Takeaway 2 Advisors recommend that financial institutions look behind some of the headlines and examine their own markets before ruling out CRE altogether. Takeaway 3 Loan-level stress testing can help assess repricing risk, while capital stress testing helps clarify the impact of CRE loan losses on capital.

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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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Guest Post: Financial Markets and Economic Update - First Quarter 2024

Jeff For Banks

In the markets, we watched helplessly as real GDP plummeted -5% in 1Q20 and -31% in 2Q20 before rebounding by +33% in 3Q20. I’ve previously theorized that China would try to reclaim its global market share lost during the pandemic by flooding the markets with cheaper goods. This development could give us good news on inflation.

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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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Guest Post: Financial Markets & Economics Update by banker Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

The markets are taking it all in stride, rallying strongly for most of this week and they seem more grateful for the prospect of a divided Congress, i.e, The markets believe the chance of tax hikes, repeals of tax cuts, and gigantic initiatives are greatly diminished. The housing market is robust across the nation.

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Guest Post: Financial Markets and Economic Update by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

Now, if Mother Nature would cooperate… Volatility The markets have been incredibly volatile in the first quarter of 2018. The spike in volatility was a wake-up call to every investor and market participant that thought “vols” would stay historically low forever. This may be the understatement of the year! Welcome to 2018!

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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.