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CRE risk management: Navigating hazards and opportunities

Abrigo

Stress testing, monitoring are essential Financial institutions should challenge assumptions about CRE risk while also watching for red flags as they manage the CRE portfolio. WATCH Takeaway 1 Banks and credit unions are critical sources of capital for businesses in their communities, so how institutions assess CRE credits matters.

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How Federal Debt May Impact Banking

South State Correspondent

The relationship between federal deficits and interest rates may depend on many complex factors, such as: whether tax rate changes, money supply changes, government spending changes, or political and economic stability worldwide accompany the deficits. With time, these changes will only amplify.

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Food for Thought: A Policy on Credit Exceptions

Abrigo

and property tax payments. There probably should be no more than 3-5 exception types in each of those major categories. For example, documentation would encompass perfection, administrative (insurance, UCC-11s, etc.), The following is an example of how I would address the structural exception of non-recourse lending.

Policies 195
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Using Enterprise Risk Management to Achieve Bank Stability

NCR

As a result of the recession and market volatility, there has been a concerted effort in recent years throughout the banking industry to focus on a holistic approach to an institution’s overall risk management in order to achieve and sustain stability. Compliance Risk – The banking industry is highly regulated.

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Remembering 9/11 – A Pivotal Day for BSA/AML Professionals

Abrigo

BSA was intended to detect illicit activity through cash and monetary instruments to catch tax evaders using secret foreign bank accounts. See Part I: Implications for Community Financial Institutions. Regulatory scrutiny became ever-present, knowing that the security of their homeland was at stake. USA PATRIOT Act enacted.

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LendingClub: Loan Applications Grow Double Digits Amid Rising Rates  

PYMNTS

Management also stated that the CLUB Certificate Program — defined as whole loan transactions structured as tradable pass-through securities — is nearing the $1 billion mark, after having been launched less than a year ago, in December of 2017. CEO Sanborn stated that that engagement with the Federal Trade Commission remains ongoing.

Taxes 159
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B2B FinTech Firms Brace For Growth With New VC

PYMNTS

Growth of FinTech funding seems unstoppable, with the latest analysis from Hampleton Partners finding enterprise financial services and integration, online financial services, enterprise financial software and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) risk management as some of the hottest spots for investors this year.

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