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Should Congress Increase FDIC Insurance Limits?

South State Correspondent

In the wake of regional bank failures, one potential answer to equity shorting and bank runs is having the FDIC increase deposit insurance. The regulators are considering three options: raising the limit above $250k, raising the cap for only certain accounts (such as banks’ business accounts), or eliminating the cap entirely.

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

Jeff For Banks

And regulators are getting anxious. Today, I read an American Banker article on how a multi-billion dollar bank is going to ramp up its business lending. Reading between the lines, this bank is likely over the CRE guidance levels, and were probably getting grief from their regulators about it. Anxiety, anxiety, anxiety.

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Why Better Data Is The First Step In Curing The Startup Slump

PYMNTS

When the economy crashed in 2008, and fully bottomed out in June 2009 credit across the board froze. While other forms of credit were showing signs of returned in 2014, SMB lending still trailed its 2007 peak by 17 percent. The good news is that the bad news wasn’t worse news — the economy recovered, albeit unevenly and slowly.

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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’s presentation begins with a quick summary of why regulators care about HVCRE. That 13% represented 80% of the losses to the FDIC insurance fund.

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Whatever Happened To…Kabbage

PYMNTS

The year was 2009, and it was rough for some, but a fertile ground for others. “I Kabbage is a data and technology platform that enables real-time lending. The goal of all that money is, of course, to lend to small business owners. Petralia remembers back to 2009 when the team was looking for a bank partnership.

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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

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. Third, the regulators need adequate financial resources. My lesson learned to the regulators, read your past lessons learned. What caused it?

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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. lending marketplace. The DOJ Finding. Attorney Alex Tse. “We

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