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Bank Customers Lose Real Money

Jeff For Banks

Heck, maybe there'll be a reassessment and your real estate taxes will go down. Taxes go down? Retiree: That's Not So Funny To the retiree that prefers the safe haven of FDIC insured deposits held at the local bank that lends it out locally, this is a serious issue. I made a funny.

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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. 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.

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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. Through a Sageworks poll , we found that many institutions rely on on-the-job training for tax return analysis – one component of the credit analysis process.

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

Jeff For Banks

Both institutions were over the CRE concentration guidelines, so putting them together would exasperate this risk, so the regulatory thinking must have been. To remind readers, in 2006 the OCC, Federal Reserve, and FDIC issued joint interagency Guidance on Concentrations in Commercial Real Estate Lending.

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Pew Talks Payday Loans

PYMNTS

You give them more time to pay, with better guidelines on how big a monthly payment can be and how long a loan can last.” On average, $430 represents 36 percent of the typical borrower’s paycheck before taxes. Research answered that question. ” What else did we learn from Bourke?

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Cannabis Cos’ Payroll Problems Run Deep

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Our unbanked customers use our system to calculate payroll and taxes — and then they have to remit in cash. We can process payroll and taxes for our banked clients.”. According to Peterson, the FIs that agree to service these firms are typically state-level banks that are not FDIC-insured.