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Create and Maintain an Effective Loan Policy

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Confident Risk Management Begins with Sound Loan Policy A risk-based approach to loan policy can effectively improve your institution's profitability. You might also like this webinar on loan policy best practices. Loan policies make up the foundation for managing that credit risk. . When and how to update your policy.

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Member business lending: How to leverage MBL for credit union growth

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Takeaway 3 The specific policy areas outlined below should be carefully considered by credit unions engaged in member business lending. In this blog post, we will delve into the strategies and policies credit unions can adopt to ensure the success and profitability of their MBL programs. Takeaway 2 Start slow.

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Le Pont de Londres: monetary policy spillovers, prudential policies and the financial centre effect

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Large amounts of capital flow across borders. So can recipient countries employ prudential policies to offset monetary policy changes in centre countries? Many people (most notably Hélène Rey’s 2013 Jackson Hole paper ) have advocated taking macroprudential policies to offset this destabilising effect.

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Small business lending insights Vol. 1

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Recent data and trends of the small business lending market SMB Lending Insights is a snapshot of current financial trends and metrics that impact small and medium-sized business (SMB) lending and financial institutions. Almost half sought credit to grow their businesses, and 28% applied to make repairs or replace capital assets.

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When the lights go out: why does operational risk matter for financial stability?

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Operational risk is rapidly becoming one of the most important threats to the financial system but is also one of the least well understood. But they are only one part of operational risk, which includes losses from any kind of business disruption or human error, including power outages or natural disasters.

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Monetary policy, sectoral comovement and the credit channel

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There is ample evidence that a monetary policy tightening triggers a decline in consumer price inflation and a simultaneous contraction in investment and consumption (eg Erceg and Levin (2006) and Monacelli (2009) ). Chart 1 shows the impulse responses to an unexpected rise in the policy rate.

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Strengthening the resilience of market-based finance

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In less than two decades, the system of market-based finance (MBF) – which involves mainly non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) providing credit to the economy through bonds rather than loans – has both mitigated and amplified the economic effects of financial crises. 1: Money market funds. Background. 2: Open-ended funds.

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