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

Jeff For Banks

Today, I read an American Banker article on how a multi-billion dollar bank is going to ramp up its business lending. To remind readers, in 2006 the OCC, Federal Reserve, and FDIC issued joint interagency Guidance on Concentrations in Commercial Real Estate Lending. They need a marketing person to title their reports.

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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. That 13% represented 80% of the losses to the FDIC insurance fund. How did we get here?

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Why The ICBA Is Fighting Industrial Loan Charters For FinTechs

PYMNTS

An industrial bank is an FDIC-insured depository institution that is generally subject to the same banking laws and regulations as any other bank charter type, with the important exception of the Bank Holding Act of 1956. Before this year, the last time that happened was in 2006, when Walmart made a move on an ILC.

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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 The old borrow short, lend long strategy. I want to read to you the FDIC’s conclusion from their An Examination of the Banking Crisis of the 1980’s and Early 1990’s. Although community banks did not lend to sub-prime borrowers in any meaningful way, did we participate?

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LendingClub Settles With SEC, DOJ

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The DOJ investigation centered on whether LendingClub had – between January 2009 to September 2010 – misled its FDIC-insured loan originator, WebBank , leading the bank to underwrite over 200 loans that did not conform to the bank’s lending requirements. lending marketplace. Attorney Alex Tse. “We The Response.

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Bank Customers Lose Real Money

Jeff For Banks

If this were 2006, things would be good. Retiree: That's Not So Funny To the retiree that prefers the safe haven of FDIC insured deposits held at the local bank that lends it out locally, this is a serious issue. You've been conservative, preferring the stability and security of bank deposits versus the gyrations of the market.

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Bankers and Strategic Bets. A Slow Embrace.

Jeff For Banks

When I wrote that post in January 2011 there were 7,700 FDIC insured financial institutions. Didn't even exist in 2006. SunTrust - Developed Lightstream , a national online lending platform to provide consumer loans for practically any purpose. Six years ago I asked in a blog post Will Plain Vanilla Kill Community Banking ?

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