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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.

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Food for Thought: A Policy on Credit Exceptions

Abrigo

When and how to cite credit exceptions A policy on credit exceptions can address many factors that can lead financial institutions to diverge from loan policy and miss signs of potential trouble. You might also like these on-demand webinars on tackling common credit risk questions.

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How Federal Debt May Impact Banking

South State Correspondent

The relationship between federal deficits and interest rates may depend on many complex factors, such as: whether tax rate changes, money supply changes, government spending changes, or political and economic stability worldwide accompany the deficits. With time, these changes will only amplify.

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US Government Policy On SMB Lending In Flux

PYMNTS

Senate passed legislation that increased the SBA’s authority over the program, bolstering its credit risk management office, and increasing its oversight of its lending partners that facilitate the financing of small business loans via the program. Last year, the U.S.

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For faster loan origination, stop doing this

Abrigo

Stop : Creating a term sheet in Word or Excel, using the application to re-key all loan and customer or member information and referring to the institution’s credit policy document, then checking everything for accuracy. Stop manual tax-data entry. Click a button that imports yours. Easily upload and import the data.

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9 “hot spot” issues examiners see at banks with CRE loans

Abrigo

Commercial real estate lending continues to receive regulatory scrutiny and reminders for financial institutions to practice solid risk management. Eberley, director of the FDIC's Division of Risk Management Supervision wrote in the publication.

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Fundamentals of construction lending

Abrigo

If your bank policy allows an LTV of up to 80%, then borrowers’ equity will be 20%. Conditions, covenants, and policy exceptions. Policy exceptions A quick look at a financial institution’s policy exceptions can reveal whether the loans they have on the books generally comply with policy and how well the bank handles risk.

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