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FinCEN reissues real estate Geographic Targeting Orders

Abrigo

Real estate lending BSA training should include GTO guidance , specifically on how to identify red flags at loan origination. They provide valuable data on the purchase of residential real estate that helps detect money laundering and other illicit activity through the purchase of real estate. Expanded efforts. GTO overview.

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FinCEN Reissues Real Estate Geographic Targeting Orders: What does this mean for you?

Abrigo

Real estate lending BSA training should include GTO guidance. The newest order include s : Boston Chicago Dallas-Fort Worth Honolulu Las Vegas Los Angeles Miami New York City San Antonio San Diego San Francisco Seattle . What does this GTO mean for your institution?

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Today In Payments: Default Fears Mount As China’s Banks Encourage Loans; Goldman, Morgan Stanley Predict Economic Devastation

PYMNTS

In today’s top news, state-owned financial institutions in China are offering incentives to boost consumer lending, and economists at Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley predict the coronavirus will be economically devastating. Beijing is looking at personal lending as a way out of the economic crisis brought on by the coronavirus.

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FinCEN Reissues Real Estate Geographic Targeting Orders: What Does this Mean for Your FI?

Abrigo

The newest order includes: Boston Chicago Dallas-Fort Worth Honolulu Las Vegas Los Angeles Miami New York City San Antonio San Diego San Francisco Seattle. Real estate lending BSA training should include GTO guidance. What does this GTO mean to your financial institution?

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FinCEN Reissues Real Estate Geographic Targeting Orders

Abrigo

including: Boston Chicago Dallas-Fort Worth Honolulu Las Vegas Los Angeles Miami New York City San Antonio San Diego San Francisco Seattle . Real estate lending BSA training should include GTO guidance. New York City and Miami were the original targets under the first order in 2016, but it has expanded periodically since then.

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Bankers: Is your strategy the same as your competitor?

Jeff For Banks

Lending services include commercial loans to small to medium-sized businesses and professional concerns as well as consumers. We serve our local geographic market which is the Dallas - Fort Worth metropolitan area. We believe we can effectively compete as a community bank in our market area and the niche markets we serve.

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