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The Velocity of Risk – What Bankers Need To Know

South State Correspondent

Banks that are looking to enhance their risk management practices should consider incorporating the concept of the velocity of risk into their enterprise-wide risk management practices. Some risks occur slowly; others strike quickly and hard. Optimizing Risk. Consider the risk above.

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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. Risk mitigants tend to lag growth, especially fast growth.

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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

More recently and by comparison, the mortgage meltdown and subsequent global financial crisis took down more than 500 banks between 2007 and 2014, with total assets of nearly $959 billion. The old borrow short, lend long strategy. Although community banks did not lend to sub-prime borrowers in any meaningful way, did we participate?

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2021 GonzoBanker Awards

Gonzobanker

million gets the vaunted consumer lender a much-prized bank charter, low-cost deposits to juice current earnings, and a business lending capability to drive future growth. Rex Johnson, Baxter Credit Union founder and former CEO – Rex was a legend in the credit union industry who will always be remembered as the “Yoda” of lending.

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My top five Decentralized Finance predictions for 2020

Lex Sokolin

Ethereum’s decentralized lending and trading are floating around 2,500 daily users. The lending product above is a bit more complicated. Other things like Compound are essentially a securities lending marketplace?—?you It’s like watching Mint.com emerge in 2007. So what does the future to come look like?

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Guest Post: Third Quarter Economic Update by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

I know I risk sounding like Charles Plosser, but so be it. It seems to me that reducing burdensome regulations and not implementing harsher capital requirements would be more effective alternatives to incentivize lending than pushing all yields toward zero while buying up all of our bonds. We should all be so lucky. So stay tuned!