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CRE risk management: Navigating hazards and opportunities

Abrigo

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. The impact is not consistent.”

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ProfitStars Targets Online Bill Pay Fraud For Banks

PYMNTS

ProfitStars , the Jack Henry & Associates division that provides risk management solutions for financial institutions, announced its latest fraud tool on Wednesday (Sept. The iPay ESM solution also offers banks the capability to produce reports for their employees or examiners, the company noted.

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Greenfield Opportunity Looms In India For Online Financing

PYMNTS

Rohit Arora, cofounder and chief executive officer of Biz2Credit, told PYMNTS that, given the wide berth occupied by SMEs in India, across a plethora of verticals, the initial demand would most likely come from the regional big cities in the country and the small businesses within those cities — most likely entrenched in services and technology.

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Data Sharing, XaaS Target SMB Financing Efficiencies

PYMNTS

Currencycloud is connecting regional banks to advanced FX and global payments technologies, while the firm’s founder, Nigel Verdon, is also targeting Banking-as-a-Service with his new startup, Railsbank. Plaid is unlocking payroll data to ease access to federal financing. Funding Options Unlocks Data Across 20 Lenders.

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Why Farmers Now Care About Hedging Currency Risk

PYMNTS

Bad weather, infestation, speculation: Such factors can not only mean survival or failure for farmers, but impact food prices and the larger global economy without any effort at hedging or risk management. Corporates tend to be more pragmatic and take risk off the table,” he said.

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Hong Kong Relaxes Rules In Effort To Boost FinTech Lending

PYMNTS

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority has, as finews.asia reported this past week, amended its credit risk management guidelines in a way that seeks to boost the embrace of analytics when lending to smaller firms.

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What Lies Beneath: FIs’ Biggest Cyberthreat

PYMNTS

While imagining the threat and costs of a cyberattack that targets regional or national infrastructures might seem overly pessimistic, given that the cheer of the holiday season still lingers, there is, according to Baich, reason for hope. However, there is no seamless and efficient mechanism for that yet in the online world.

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