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Small business loan processing: Automate back-office tasks

Abrigo

Manual back-end steps bog down loan approvals Financial institutions can make financial analysis, risk rating, pricing, and other steps for processing small business loans less painful. Among large banks, 42% currently use financial technology in small business lending, compared to 30% of small banks, according to the FDIC.

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Should Congress Increase FDIC Insurance Limits?

South State Correspondent

In the wake of regional bank failures, one potential answer to equity shorting and bank runs is having the FDIC increase deposit insurance. We believe any change to the FDIC insurance coverage should aim to maintain and advance our credit markets. There is no escaping this conclusion: FDIC insurance promotes risk-taking by managers.

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Writing Effective Credit Memos Efficiently

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Lenders and credit analysts must organize into one cohesive credit memo the following: borrower information, financial ratios, any global cash flow analysis, the assigned risk rating, proposed loan pricing, and terms of the proposed loan. The rating for a loan should represent the sum of the earlier information and analysis provided.

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Bank Regulators Seeking Comments on the Use of AI and ML in the Industry

Perficient

The five federal agencies are: the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the Federal Reserve Board (Fed), the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) and the. Textual analysis. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC).

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

Abrigo

FDIC officials in March outlined several types of weaknesses in loan underwriting, administration and oversight practices that are emerging at some banks with CRE portfolios. Eberley, director of the FDIC's Division of Risk Management Supervision wrote in the publication.

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Decoding SVB’s Failure & FDIC’s Special Assessment

Perficient

In various press releases, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has highlighted that an estimated $16.3 billion of the total cost incurred from the failures of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature Bank was designated for safeguarding uninsured depositors. Commencing with the first quarterly assessment period of 2024 (i.e.,

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Deposits, Deposits, Wherefore Art Thou? Juliet’s banker. 

Perficient

On May 31, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) reported to the public what many banks already knew and had been experiencing for the past year – that deposits are declining in the American banking sector. There has almost been $1.2 Trillion removed from the banking system over the past year.