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CRE risk management: Navigating hazards and opportunities

Abrigo

Banks and thrifts hold half of all outstanding CRE debt through the second quarter, with insurance companies accounting for 12% and commercial mortgage-backed securities holding 14%, according to Trepp. But understanding trends in their own portfolios and local markets can allow lenders to identify risk-appropriate CRE credits.

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The Rise Of Currency Hedging And Risk Management

PYMNTS

In a new PYMNTS interview , Karl Schamotta, regional director of risk management solutions at Cambridge Global , which sells currency hedging and related services — tasks that have recently assumed greater importance in eCommerce and other industries because of the stronger U.S.

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Google Almost Done With Transition To SAP Ariba Network

PYMNTS

The final wave concerns the Asia Pacific region. The benefits for Google include a unified and accurate supplier record, the ability to integrate supplier qualification and segmentation with other procurement processes, and compliance for supplier risk management throughout the supply base. Last October, U.S.

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Grab Launches GrabInvest

PYMNTS

The company serves a long list of micro-entrepreneurs, small business owners, driver partners and users in the region. With GrabInvest, the company will strive to democratize access to retail wealth management services. Grab faces competition from rival Ant Financial and others.

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Bank Earnings Call Questions – Get Ready for These

South State Correspondent

To do that, we wrote a Python script to analyze a representative sample of earnings call transcripts for regional and mid-sized banks over the past several years. Specifically, a popular projected question (based on trends from last quarter) will be around where your management believes oversupply will start to hurt real estate performance.

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US Lenders Cautious About Making European Loans Amid Pandemic

PYMNTS

JPMorgan ended discussions regarding an additional credit line for Germany’s BASF, which is the biggest chemical company in the world, according to sources engaged in the transaction. This heavily influences risk management and regional exposure, which comes at the expense of clients abroad.”.

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Open Banking Expands Into SMB Lending, Smaller Banks

PYMNTS

The API enables businesses to collect payments as part of their accounts receivable (AR) processes to do so in a more seamless and integrated way, regardless of payment data format, so that transaction information can be applied to AR records, the company explained. Equiniti Eyes APIs for Risk Management.

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