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CRE risk management: Navigating hazards and opportunities

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Stress testing, monitoring are essential Financial institutions should challenge assumptions about CRE risk while also watching for red flags as they manage the CRE portfolio. Bankers should examine warning signs and shore up defenses for existing income-producing CRE loans as part of commercial property loan risk management.

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NYC Sees 40 Pct Hike In Bankruptcies As Office Workers, Tourists Stay Home

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Bankruptcy filings are surging in New York City with almost 6,000 closures, representing a 40 percent increase, according to Bloomberg , and it's forecasted to keep getting worse. New York's Metropolitan Opera announced cancellations for its entire 2020-21 season, which CNBC called "ominous" for all other performing groups.

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French Prosecutors Call For UBS To Pay 3.7B Euros For Tax Evasion

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billion euros for what it contends is helping wealthy people in the country evade taxes. According to a report in Reuters , UBS is facing accusations of laundering the proceeds of tax fraud and illegally going after clients in France. France isn’t the only country investigating allegations that the bank helps clients evade taxes.

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Sprint And T-Mobile Merger, Spend Management And State Tax Top This Week’s News

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It’s the end of a short holiday workweek, and the PYMNTS Weekender is here to make sure you didn’t miss anything with the latest in payments and commerce news. We have a deep dive into spend management in addition to news involving the Sprint and T-Mobile merger, as well as data on state tax laws. . Trackers and Reports.

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As The Online Tax Man Cometh, Will Smaller Retailers Embrace Marketplaces?

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As commerce has, increasingly, moved into the digital realm, and even the smallest merchants have gone omnichannel, tax policy has evolved as well — although perhaps it may be more apt to say tax policy has scrambled to keep up. Thus far, a bit more than a year after the ruling, tax policy remains fragmented.

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The Strange Spending Trends Around Sales Tax Holidays

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billion , it is still a more valuable run of commerce activity than Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Easter and Valentine’s Day combined — which is why state tax holidays placed at the end of July and beginning of August have become so very popular over the last two decades. How Tax Holidays Work. Do Tax Holidays Work? .

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NYC Taxi Commission Accused Of $810 Million Fraud

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New York Attorney General Letitia James announced plans to sue New York City for allegedly fraudulent practices by its Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC), according to reports on Thursday (Feb. She’s alleging the city profited by that same amount selling medallions and by collecting a 5% tax on third-party transfers.

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