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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. Ashbaugh goes on to demonstrate that the default rates for these loans did not peak until about 2009, and the ALLL did not increase until 2010.

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Stressing the importance of stress tests

Abrigo

The reports were positive: all 31 stressed banks “passed,” showing that they are stronger than they have been at any time since the tests began in 2009, the Fed reported. During examination time, regulators are increasingly looking at a bank’s stress testing processes and resulting capital plans.

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Are you a bull or a bear, and how will it impact your planning for 2020 and beyond?

Gonzobanker

Regardless of their viewpoints on capital recovery, now is the time for banking leaders to reevaluate their planning strategies. In a recent Fortune survey, 55% of corporate executives said they expect to return to 2019 capital spending levels sometime in 2021. What businesses need capital in the interim? Risk Management.

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4 challenges banks and credit unions are facing today

Abrigo

The following is an excerpt from the Sageworks whitepaper "Optimizing Capital: Challenges and Opportunities for Financial Institutions". Yet all financial institutions face internal and external challenges that place demands on personnel, time and – perhaps most importantly – on capital.

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

Jeff For Banks

Finally, resolution of failing financial institutions requires that the deposit insurance fund be strongly capitalized with real reserves, not just federal guarantee.” To you, manage your interest rate risk. Before becoming desperate and trading interest rate risk for credit risk. What caused it?

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Guest Post: Fourth Quarter and Year End Economic Commentary by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

Between February and November, 2015, foreign capital was pulled out of the country to the tune of $843 billion. As a matter of fact, the formula has pointed to above 1% since 2009. Dorothy has been with Penn Community Bank and its predecessor since November, 2004. China is paying the price for these actions.