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Important Considerations When Growing the CRE Portfolio

Abrigo

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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How to Measure Interest Rate Risk Effectively in Banks & Credit Unions

Abrigo

Accurate and timely IRR measurement is necessary for monitoring IRR effectively,” says the Office for the Comptroller of the Currency’s handbook on interest rate risk says. The large increase in deposits coupled with decreased loan demand pose interest rate risk challenges for banks,” the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

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Dear Financial Institution: Why do these 10 things scare you?

Social Assurance

What we found was that there were 1,776 banks/1,947 credit unions on Facebook while there were 706 banks/995 CU’s on Twitter. Marketing doesn’t have time, compliance doesn’t have time, who has time to manage this? Which of those marketing functions are we going to take time from? Data doesn’t lie.