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CRE risk management: Navigating hazards and opportunities

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Bankers should examine warning signs and shore up defenses for existing income-producing CRE loans as part of commercial property loan risk management. But understanding trends in their own portfolios and local markets can allow lenders to identify risk-appropriate CRE credits.

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Combating inconsistency in risk management

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When it comes to the risk management process, there is no one-size-fits-all approach. “It is as much an art as a science,” says Tim McPeak, risk management consultant at Sageworks. Other common manual errors include double counting income and debt-service and excluding necessary tax forms.

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New Digital Taxes Loom On Tech Firms In Europe

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Amid the continuing drumbeat for taxes on global commerce done through digital means, the Czech government has approved a new seven percent digital tax on global Internet firms which will, as Reuters reports , be levied on revenues tied to Czech users across advertising, digital marketplaces and data sales. Health Records and Google.

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Hacker Tracker: The Evolving Threat Of Tax Fraud

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Earlier this year, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration reported that there was a reduction in the number of fraudulent tax returns identified between 2013 and 2015. What’s Next In Tax Fraud. Cybercriminals aren’t always going to go after credit card information, because they don’t have to.

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CRE loan distress: Spot the symptoms, diagnose, and treat problem loans

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Here’s how banks and credit unions with strong CRE risk management can identify weakening property loans, assess them, triage them, and assist with their prognosis and treatment. Beyond a hard money default due to a payment or maturity event, early warning signs for CRE loans typically manifest as a : Failure to pay real estate taxes.

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3 Traits of a Strong Loan Reviewer – Video

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As a loan reviewer, you need to be technically sound in order to do your job, which means you need to have a fundamental understanding of financial analysis, tax analysis, and all of the regulatory laws that surround the credits that you’re going to be reviewing,” Cooley says. Keep me informed. Credit Risk Management.

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One of commercial banking’s biggest challenges solved by Sageworks’ “Most Innovative” product

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A credit risk manager at one bank with $900 million in total assets estimated that her team received approximately 8,220 tax returns in the 2015 calendar year. The company was named “Overall Most Innovative” for its Electronic Tax Return Reader (ETRR).