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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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LendingClub Settles With SEC, DOJ

PYMNTS

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. The DOJ Finding. In 2010, LendingClub added to its war chest with a $24.5

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Managing Commercial Real Estate in a COVID-Ravaged Landscape

Gonzobanker

The scenarios and data an institution used in a prior stress test will help it find potential problems in unemployment, vacancy rates, collateral values, capital rates and property value trends. Studies show that institutions that more rapidly pushed workouts in 2009-2012 came out healthier than those that chose to wait.

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WePay Closes $40 Million Series D Round Led by FTV Capital

Fintech Labs Insights

Payment processor, WePay has just added $40 million in new funding to its investment total , courtesy of a Series D investment led by FTV Capital. The Series D round takes WePay’s overall capital to more than $75 million. FTV Capital partner Chris Kinship will join WePay’s Board of Directors as part of the deal.

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