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CRE risk management: Navigating hazards and opportunities

Abrigo

Bankers should examine warning signs and shore up defenses for existing income-producing CRE loans as part of commercial property loan risk management. But understanding trends in their own portfolios and local markets can allow lenders to identify risk-appropriate CRE credits.

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How Federal Debt May Impact Banking

South State Correspondent

The relationship between federal deficits and interest rates may depend on many complex factors, such as: whether tax rate changes, money supply changes, government spending changes, or political and economic stability worldwide accompany the deficits. As interest rates rise and remain higher, the value of deposits will grow.

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

Jeff For Banks

Our lives changed forever from this whole experience of the government’s declaration of a national emergency, leading to forced shutdowns of businesses and schools, mandated mask wearing, forcing 6-foot distances between people, travel restrictions, fear mongering with case and death counts, and forced vaccines/boosters. 4Q) is 3.40%.

Marketing 146
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Conducting an exam-proof AML/CFT risk assessment for credit unions

Abrigo

Step two Identify inherent risk vs. residual risk Inherent risk is any activity or factor posed to the credit union, notwithstanding applying any management or risk mitigation tools. This example is a situation with a "high" inherent risk and "strong" mitigating controls. If so, how is this monitored?

Fraud 195
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How to increase efficiency and minimize risk in the audit process using analytics

Abrigo

Since leaving public accounting, she has been an internal auditor, a tax preparer and a controller. A study by the Global Public Policy Committee, “Enhancing Auditor Professional Skepticism,” found that common judgment tendencies in auditors act to weaken skepticism and lead to bias.

Analytics 150
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Guest Post: 2012 Economic Year in Review by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

Housing markets have begun to improve with the national indices showing year-over-year growth of 3% to 4% recently. The Fed—At It Again The Federal Reserve keeps experimenting with their monetary policy moves, continually trying something new without waiting to see how the past moves are working out. Oh, wait, our Congress!

Taxes 71
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Guest Post: 2013 Economic Year in Review and Outlook by Banker Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

This helps to explain the Fed’s continued easy money policies, stretching now into year six. She will continue your zero rate policy and will “taper” your QE 3 program, because the markets have already dismissed its impact and tightened long term rates despite your wishes. And so, all of this adds up to cautious optimism for 2014.