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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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Could the 2009 subprime mortgage crisis have been avoided with blockchain?

BankNXT

Could the 2009 subprime mortgage crisis have been avoided with blockchain? The subprime mortgage crisis, and why distributed ledgers would have been instrumental in lessening its impact. Story by George Samman. on BankNXT.

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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. Stress testing is a critical risk management technique that deserves bolstering.

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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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4 challenges banks and credit unions are facing today

Abrigo

They may include: - Competing and conflicting interests: growth vs. risk - Disconnected processes, departments and technology - Little transparency into portfolio health over time - Lots of data, few actionable insights. “As Compliance staff may require certain operational processes that delay credit approval and impede competitiveness.

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Addressing Portfolio Risk in Economic Uncertainty: Part 2 (2022)

FICO

Building portfolio risk resilience into customer acquisition. If we think of a lending portfolio as an exclusive night club, its underwriting policy acts as the doorperson, checking IDs and making sure anyone trying to enter meets minimum acceptance criteria. FICO Admin. Thu, 12/19/2019 - 16:29. by David Binder. Economic Scenario.

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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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