Abrigo

OCTOBER 10, 2023

How industry analysis can improve your credit risk management Understanding your customers' businesses leads to better loan pricing, structure, and risk management. You might also like this webinar series, "Tackling common credit risk questions during challenging times." Read "Commercial risk rating considerations."

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Abrigo

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Support credit risk management Understanding loan covenants, when financial institutions should use them, and how to monitor them supports strong lending portfolios and credit risk management best practices. Takeaway 2 Capital, performance, and administrative covenants are common with business loans.

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Abrigo

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Adapt to a dynamic banking environment with real-time lending & credit data Lender dashboards and reports showing the lending pipeline, pricing trends, emerging risks, workflow bottlenecks, etc. help financial institutions adapt quickly to trends. Learn how to tap your data to generate management insights.

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Abrigo

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Takeaway 2 With proper planning and effective strategies, the scheduling process can be made more manageable at your financial institution. Takeaway 3 Credit analysts need training to understand the working capital cycle, look for hidden risks, and be aware of accounting changes. Talk to a specialist to learn more.

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Abrigo

JUNE 5, 2023

Banking reports to inform risk management and strategy These reports on capital, growth, and liquidity help financial institutions spot warning signs. They help manage and shape strategy in volatile economic and industry conditions. the Community Bank Leverage Ratio (CBLR) and the minimum Tier 1 leverage ratio).

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Like many venture capital companies in the payments space, Serent Capital has had a busy year. 15 with the announcement of the launch of its fourth fund, Serent Capital IV — at $750 million. 15 with the announcement of the launch of its fourth fund, Serent Capital IV — at $750 million. That was followed on Dec.

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Abrigo

JULY 1, 2015

A segmentation strategy, though, is a great place to start to nail down an effective and efficient process – not only will it serve a substantial purpose for the ALLL, but also as a larger risk management tool. To best understand that risk, bankers look at segments of the portfolio to monitor performance over time.

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Abrigo

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Banking Trends from the FDIC's 2Q Report Net interest margin reached a new record low, but positive signs emerged in lending. You might also like this webinar: "The Basics of Consumer Lending." Takeaway 3 The future looks brighter, as financial institutions have cash and capital, and opportunities are starting to unfold.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 12, 2020

But the latest initiatives reveal a growing interest in transforming internal processes, particularly among smaller banks looking to upgrade their core infrastructure and elevate small business lending operations. Equiniti Eyes APIs for Risk Management. FirstBank Taps Finxact for Core Infrastructure.

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Abrigo

JULY 27, 2023

Keeping up with OFAC Russian sanctions , customer due diligence regulations, and consumer lending compliance expectations can be challenging. However, banks and credit unions should stay vigilant about choosing the right regtech solutions to tackle the challenges and capitalize on the opportunities it presents.

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Abrigo

JULY 27, 2023

Keeping up with OFAC Russian sanctions , customer due diligence regulations, and consumer lending compliance expectations can be challenging. However, banks and credit unions should stay vigilant about choosing the right regtech solutions to tackle the challenges and capitalize on the opportunities it presents.

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Abrigo

AUGUST 8, 2021

As regulators described “practices generally considered consistent with safety-and-soundness standards,” they revised loan review guidance to reflect the broader importance of credit review to risk management. Larger or more complex institutions might have credit risk review functions entirely separate from their lending functions.

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Abrigo

MARCH 16, 2016

Risk ratings form the basis for broader risk management including setting the reserve, stress testing , capital and strategic planning. Once determined, they allow lenders to determine how and how often to review and analyze the relationship. Sign up for the webinar.

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Abrigo

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

In a survey of community banks and credit unions at the 2016 Sageworks Risk Management Summit, 42 percent of respondents said Commercial Real Estate, or CRE, lending was their primary focus for loan portfolio growth. This reflects a larger industry trend. For many, commercial real estate lending may be the ticket.

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Abrigo

AUGUST 5, 2020

Therefore, it’s essential that the credit memo captures the complete picture of the borrower to ensure proper risk management. Tell me what’s driving those numbers and those trends,” Wear said. Many of the loan grading systems I’ve seen seem to lack ways to account for trends ­– I’m so happy to see that growing,” he said.

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Abrigo

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

For example, according to a recent poll during the Sageworks Risk Management Summit, 39 percent of bankers say it typically takes their financial institutions from three to six weeks to close a new commercial loan, and another 36 percent said it takes more than six weeks. Read more about traits of millennial business owners here.

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Based on some industry trends and regulatory priorities, here are a few ideas for spending surplus budget funds to help grow your financial institution next year or mitigate risk. But this year, only 15% described core deposit growth as a “very important” risk. Lending & Credit Risk. Consumer Lending.

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Abrigo

MAY 5, 2022

Thankfully for bank and credit union executives, lenders, risk managers, and Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) Officers, banking podcasts and podcasts for credit unions are plentiful, and options are growing. However, topics such as money laundering , adjustments in supervision, and nascent trends also get attention. Banking Resources.

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Abrigo

JULY 12, 2019

By Urum Urumoglu Senior Consultant A financial institution’s internal pricing decisions and strategies are crucial to the safety and the soundness of the organization and to its interest rate risk management process in particular. retail rates will probably go higher since we are in a tight liquidity situation. Learn More.

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Jeff For Banks

MAY 20, 2017

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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Abrigo

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

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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CFPB Monitor

AUGUST 1, 2022

On July 18, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (“FHFA”) announced the launch of a new Office of Financial Technology with the goal of advancing effective risk management as it evaluates fintech developments in the housing finance space.

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BankUnderground

JANUARY 12, 2023

This in turn means greater risk of ‘debt deleveraging’ by heavily indebted households and firms, who may be forced to reduce their spending in order to meet their debt obligations, potentially amplifying any recessionary effects. However, this effect is small in our model given the size of banks’ capital buffers.

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2016

SMB Working Capital. Amex threw its hat into the online lending ring earlier this week when it announced that it will launch a program later this year that will extend lines of credit from as little as $1K to as much as $750K for qualified SMB borrowers. Investor Confidence In Marketplace Lending. Next time, guys? The workhorse?

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Gonzobanker

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Banks and credit unions that are successfully transforming today tend to skeptically analyze new industry trends and conduct the hard work to dig into the details. Once they run buzzwords and innovations through management’s “B.S. At the same time, tomorrow’s leadership will have little to do with “book smarts.”

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Management pointed to tightening credit standards even as rising rates helped boost results, trends that are likely to continue. CEO Scott Sanborn said that results benefited partly as the firm was and has been able to serve broad range of investors across the company’s platform, marked by varying cost of capital and risk appetites.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

The dominating narrative in small business lending is the rise in alternative finance to fill the gaps left behind by traditional banks. Sageworks , which develops financial data management solutions for financial institutions, has just entered the SME lending arena with a new solution that provides banks with small business lending support.

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

A whopping 95 percent of ICBA members are active commercial real estate (CRE) lenders, according to the latest ICBA Community Bank Lending Survey. Risk-management practices “that cause concern,” the regulators wrote, include “a greater number of underwriting policy exceptions and insufficient monitoring of market conditions.”.

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Independent Banker

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Here are several timely suggestions to consider based on recent regulatory trends they see. Be aware of existing or emerging risk concerns. increased operational risks. Implicit in managing operational risk is for banks to continue to maintain adequate capital and a solid balance sheet, he says.

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Independent Banker

JANUARY 28, 2016

Thomas: Because banks have been introducing more new products and services or introducing new business lines, in part to simply serve their customers and in part to generate new revenues, the regulators want to evaluate how well banks are managing the risks associated with such new activities.

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PYMNTS

MAY 28, 2018

It’s not exactly dogs and cats living together in harmony, but FinTechs and banks — the upstarts and the traditionalists — are certainly cozying up, a trend that looks certain to continue. The deal is newsworthy because the mainstream view still sees banks and FinTechs as adversaries, each competing for payment and financial services revenue.

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Community banks cannot afford to ignore the staggering pace of lending adoption by both individuals and businesses using digital-only platforms from various nonbank technology-based specialty lending firms. Competing and beating FinTech’s digital-platform lenders. By Jonathan Rowe. Core deposits also come at much lower costs.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 17, 2021

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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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

At the same time, early-stage and late-stage trends paint a different picture. Qualifying top five venture capital investors (e.g. venture capital, growth equity, and super angel) and corporates (e.g. corporations and corporate venture capital) must have made equity investments into fintech companies listed on this market map.

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Abrigo

MAY 14, 2021

How can financial risk models within the bank or credit union benefit from using the same sheet music? Check out this webinar on Enterprise Risk Management. Takeaway 1 Enterprise Risk Management is a priority for financial institution leaders but still maturing. The Importance of Effective Risk Management.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

GET THE 102-PAGE q4 2019 FINTECH TRENDS REPORT. Since January 2019, Citi has announced partnerships with capital markets tech companies Capitolis and Kantox and treasury risk management software Kyriba. Cloud-based digital lending platform Roostify has been integrating with some of the largest mortgage lenders.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

The conference’s sponsor, the World Savings Banks Institute, calls digitization the biggest challenge facing savings and retail banks in the near future but also recognizes the trend as “an unparalleled opportunity to fulfill our mission even more effectively.”. Now it has a small-business financing program, Square Capital.

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