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Get your ducks in a row: HVCRE risk management

Abrigo

In a recent Sageworks webinar Robert Ashbaugh, senior risk management consultant at Sageworks, discusses High Volatility Commercial Real Estate (HVCRE) lending best practices. How did we get here? Ashbaugh’s presentation begins with a quick summary of why regulators care about HVCRE.

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Are you diversifying your portfolio appropriately?

Abrigo

It is only natural for community banks to have loan concentrations that result from the market(s) they serve and the markets they pursue. In today’s times, a high commercial real estate (CRE) concentration is often the result of community banks pursuing opportunity in the market. Blog Bank Credit Union'

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Putting excess liquidity to work in today’s low-rate environment

Abrigo

A storm of events that have defined 2020 leaves many community financial institutions today in the position where balance sheets are awash with liquidity and competitive markets are squeezing rates on good quality loans to lower-than- comfortable levels. Credit Risk Management. Lending & Credit Risk. CRE Lending.

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It Started with a Tweet #SocialMedia #Banks @ICBA

Independent Banker

The first tweet ever written was by co-founder Jack Dorsey on March 21, 2006, at 9:50 p.m., According to a statistic released as part of the ICBA 2014 Top 50 Community Bank Leaders in Social Media, nearly 2,500 banks have a Facebook or Twitter presence, and the numbers continue to exponentially grow. Following the tweets.

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Guest Post: Financial Markets & Economic Update 4Q23 by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

Unsurprisingly, the largest declines occurred starting monthly in March, 2006 and on a y-o-y basis in September, 2006 and continued to November, 2009. We all remember the Great Recession, which began in 2007, but the LEI knew it as early as March, 2006. The largest monthly decline took place in May, 2009 at -27.2%

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Predicting the Next Banking Crisis Is a Fool’s Game. Not Learning From the Last One: Equally Foolish

Jeff For Banks

bank failures per year between 1996 and 2006, and 3.6 To you, manage your interest rate risk. Before becoming desperate and trading interest rate risk for credit risk. Although community banks did not lend to sub-prime borrowers in any meaningful way, did we participate? banks failed a year.

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What's With Regulator Agita Over Bank Commercial Real Estate Lending?

Jeff For Banks

and New York Community Bancorp called off their planned merger. Both institutions were over the CRE concentration guidelines, so putting them together would exasperate this risk, so the regulatory thinking must have been. Risk mitigants tend to lag growth, especially fast growth. And regulators are getting anxious.

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