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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. The impact is not consistent.”

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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.

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Lending Is Failing To Live Up To 2018’s Great Expectations

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regional bank executives were gearing up for a bumper year, according to Bloomberg. Crediting lower taxes, thanks to the end of the year tax reform bill passed by Congress, regional bank executives saw a sudden and notable pick up in both commercial loan demand and a big jump in spending on credit and debit cards.

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Remembering 9/11 – A Pivotal Day for BSA/AML Professionals

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BSA was intended to detect illicit activity through cash and monetary instruments to catch tax evaders using secret foreign bank accounts. The importantance of the BSA tole came to be paramount to the entrie risk management program and included as part of the federal safety and soundness examinations.

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LendingClub: Loan Applications Grow Double Digits Amid Rising Rates  

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Data-driven efforts aided by technology have been able to match the best cost of capital to the right borrowers, he said, and in the aforementioned 39 percent growth in the custom loan activity, he said that local community and regional banks are looking for higher quality borrowers. “At

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Expanding credit portfolios: 3 Growing pains

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But, while there is no silver bullet for understanding borrowers at the onset, the bank can create risk-mitigation strategies, which will in part include more objective and defensible credit analysis procedures. While this form of education is successful, it has to be supplemented with formal training.

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Greenfield Opportunity Looms In India For Online Financing

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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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