Remove Community Remove Guidelines Remove Risk Management Remove Taxes
article thumbnail

Food for Thought: A Policy on Credit Exceptions

Abrigo

If actual practices vary materially from the written guidelines and procedures, the source of this discrepancy should be identified, and either actual practices or the written policy should be changed. Management may conclude that specific sections of the written policy are no longer relevant. and property tax payments.

Policies 195
article thumbnail

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.

Training 170
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

How Are PPP Loans Forgiven? What We Know Now

Abrigo

or who received annualized pay of more than $100,000 during any period in 2019; state and local employer taxes assessed on an employee’s compensation (i.e., State Unemployment Tax Act, or SUTA) during the eight-week covered period Employee counts : The average number of FTEs per month for both the eight-week period and either a) Feb.

Taxes 195
article thumbnail

What's With Regulator Agita Over Bank Commercial Real Estate Lending?

Jeff For Banks

and New York Community Bancorp called off their planned merger. Both institutions were over the CRE concentration guidelines, so putting them together would exasperate this risk, so the regulatory thinking must have been. Risk mitigants tend to lag growth, especially fast growth. Last December, Astoria Financial Corp.

Lending 60
article thumbnail

Hot Wheels

Independent Banker

Half a dozen years ago, the community bank held $13 million in auto loans. Tax-exempt credit union competition is the main culprit for the bank’s decline in auto lending, Thompson says. What types of auto loans does your community bank offer? Todd Thompson. We’ll wait until sanity returns” to get back into auto loans, he says.

article thumbnail

Hot Wheels

Independent Banker

Half a dozen years ago, the community bank held $13 million in auto loans. Tax-exempt credit union competition is the main culprit for the bank’s decline in auto lending, Thompson says. What types of auto loans does your community bank offer? Todd Thompson. We’ll wait until sanity returns” to get back into auto loans, he says.