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CRE risk management: Navigating hazards and opportunities

Abrigo

Takeaway 3 Loan-level stress testing can help assess repricing risk, while capital stress testing helps clarify the impact of CRE loan losses on capital. Critical capital Should CRE lending be off the table? But understanding trends in their own portfolios and local markets can allow lenders to identify risk-appropriate CRE credits.

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Formula for Business Lending Success: Minimize Delays

Abrigo

Key Takeaways Financial institutions who want to maintain a healthy share of business lending this year and through potentially tougher economic times ahead want to be in the best position possible before trouble hits. Abrigo's Business Lending Readiness Survey found many processes stymie those efforts. learn more.

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What Basic Functions Should My Loan Origination System (LOS) Perform?

Abrigo

Providers of loan origination software representing good partners for a financial institution also have specific features. Basic functions of a loan origination system When evaluating a loan origination system, lenders are rightly concerned with three major areas: the customer or member experience sound lending practices efficiency.

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Food for Thought: A Policy on Credit Exceptions

Abrigo

Finally, while there may be a distinction in the severity of risk of the credit exception, that assessment tends to be inherent in the exception itself rather than the subject of the exception (e.g., unsecured lending is bad rather than unsecured lending should only be extended to high pass risk rated credit).

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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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The math behind small business lending: Problems & possibilities for banks & credit unions

Abrigo

Recent dynamics of the small business lending market A deep understanding of the small business lending landscape and potential efficiencies can help banks and credit unions grow their portfolios. You might also like this guide for smarter, faster small business lending. Record new business formation and a wider gap between U.S.

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Building your growth plan: Key metrics to consider - Part 3

Abrigo

This practice is designed to mitigate risk, but it can also limit lending opportunities. They would not yet have tax returns for the business, and they would likely still be showing poor cash flows. In both of these instances, leveraging software solutions opens up new lending opportunities.

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