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

Abrigo

These times are different than the early 2000s or even 2006 to 2018 when economic activity was roaring, unemployment was low and financial institution liquidity was tight. That is an overall asset/liability management decision that requires more time and attention, so stay tuned for that. CRE Lending. Credit Risk Management.

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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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What #Banking Trend Will Have the Greatest Impact on Your Bank?

Jeff For Banks

The Fed has paused for nearly a year now, and it was our experience in 2006-07 that bank cost of funds continued to increase as the market closed the delta between what someone could earn in a money market mutual fund and a bank account. Such as direct lending funds, and insurance companies. Cost of funds is leveling off now.

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Are you diversifying your portfolio appropriately?

Abrigo

Consequently, interagency guidance on CRE concentration risk management , released in 2006, helps institutions pursue CRE lending with safety and soundness. Important to note, though, is that these loans would comprise part of the 300 percent CRE limit set by the 2006 interagency guidance. Blog Bank Credit Union'

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LendingClub Settles With SEC, DOJ

PYMNTS

By using funds managed by LCA to benefit its parent company, LCA and Laplanche failed to do so.”. Last week’s announcements capped off two years of investigation into the P2P lending firm, and its board has expressed some relief that it seems to be time to turn the page on the events of 2016. Attorney Alex Tse. “We The Response.

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Can FinTech Walk The FinTalk?

PYMNTS

Marketplace lending. The blockchain can even end world poverty and transform society by making it safer for total strangers to lend each other money — without any third-party intermediary — and without any risk. Marketplace Lending. Blockchain. Digital banks. Blockchain. Take the blockchain.

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