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9 “hot spot” issues examiners see at banks with CRE loans

Abrigo

FDIC officials in March outlined several types of weaknesses in loan underwriting, administration and oversight practices that are emerging at some banks with CRE portfolios. Eberley, director of the FDIC's Division of Risk Management Supervision wrote in the publication.

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Expanding credit portfolios: 3 Growing pains

Abrigo

Community banks are expanding their loan portfolios to include more small business loans, according to the most recent Community Bank Performance report by the FDIC. In order to grow significantly, however, a bank may choose to expand its reach into businesses and neighborhoods outside the community - their “comfort zone.

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Food for Thought: A Policy on Credit Exceptions

Abrigo

As the FDIC said recently: Exceptions to policy should be few in number and properly justified, approved, and tracked. 3 categories of credit exceptions I would divide exceptions into three categories: structural credit exceptions, account management exceptions, and documentation exceptions. and property tax payments.

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Advocacy: Election Returns

Independent Banker

Around the Table—Wisconsin community bankers work with legislative staff members on Capitol Hill during ICBA’s Washington Policy Summit. Keeping community banking interests front and center. Rally more than 3,000 community bankers each year who support ICBPAC, ICBA’s federal political action committee for community banking.

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E-Signature Approval

Independent Banker

We get the disclosure back faster” when borrowers digitally sign documents exchanged by email, Webster notes. Community banks and their customers don’t need to be concerned about the legality of digitally signed documents. Sending documents to a consumer’s personal email is the first safeguard. Legal aspects.

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The Thinker

Independent Banker

in Coldwater, Ohio, and ICBA’s incoming chairman, held fast to his community bank’s conservative lending practices. What concerned me most wasn’t that the customer was upset with me,” recalls Hartings of the homebuyers who ignored his community bank’s cautiously pragmatic approach. “I Jack got us through that just fine.

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