BankUnderground

JULY 20, 2022

Over the past decade, several central banks have cut policy rates below zero. In a recent paper we explore the effect on bank lending by combining data on exposure to negative rates with banks’ balance sheets, the Spanish credit register and firms’ balance sheets. Why might negative rates work differently?

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BankUnderground

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Julia Giese, Michael McLeay, David Aikman and Sujit Kapadia Central banks have been using a range of monetary policy and macroprudential tools to maintain monetary and financial stability. Policymakers can do better by also deploying the countercyclical capital buffer , a tool that varies the amount of additional capital banks must set aside.

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The most-read lending & credit blogs in 2023 Probability of default, CECL model validation, and stress testing were among Abrigo's top blogs on ALM, CECL, and portfolio risk this year. Takeaway 2 The top lending and credit blog posts focused on the benefits of banking technology, interest rate management, and developing risk ratings.

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South State Correspondent

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Commercial bankers are trusted advisors and have a unique opportunity to understand their client’s specific financial and personal situations, explain the basic concepts of capital markets, and offer prudent and objective advice to help customers reach their goals. The graph below shows the lending curve from one month to 20 years.

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Abrigo

MAY 22, 2024

Recent stats and dynamics of the small business lending market Understanding the small business lending landscape and potential efficiencies can help banks and credit unions grow their portfolios. You might also like this guide for smarter, faster small business lending. Record new business formation and a wider gap between U.S.

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BankUnderground

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Large amounts of capital flow across borders. So can recipient countries employ prudential policies to offset monetary policy changes in centre countries? Many people (most notably Hélène Rey’s 2013 Jackson Hole paper ) have advocated taking macroprudential policies to offset this destabilising effect.

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BankUnderground

AUGUST 9, 2024

Michael Kumhof and Mauricio Salgado-Moreno While ‘unconventional’ balance-sheet policies like quantitative easing (QE) and quantitative tightening (QT) appear to have been successful, it is difficult to separate their macroeconomic and financial stability implications from those of other polices.

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Abrigo

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Businesses' working capital cycles are longer. Bank and credit union leaders can use data to inform small business lending Small businesses are showing resilience. Thousands of banks, credit unions, and accounting firms use our risk management and lending solutions, contributing to this cooperative data model for banking intelligence.

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BankUnderground

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

David Elliott, Ralf Meisenzahl and José-Luis Peydró Capital flows and credit growth are strongly correlated across countries. Existing academic literature emphasises the role of banks in propagating these US monetary policy spillovers. To address this challenge, we focus on the global syndicated lending market.

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BankUnderground

JUNE 1, 2023

Sangyup Choi, Tim Willems and Seung Yong Yoo How does monetary policy really affect the real economy? What kinds of firms or industries are more sensitive to changes in the stance of monetary policy, and through which exact channels? ’), which is why we are interested in creating a broad database of such shocks.

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BankUnderground

AUGUST 17, 2021

There is ample evidence that a monetary policy tightening triggers a decline in consumer price inflation and a simultaneous contraction in investment and consumption (eg Erceg and Levin (2006) and Monacelli (2009) ). Chart 1 shows the impulse responses to an unexpected rise in the policy rate.

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BankUnderground

APRIL 28, 2023

This post investigates whether large and small banks in the UK and US differ in the cyclical patterns of capital positions and credit provision. The reforms aimed to ensure that banks have sufficient capital resources to absorb losses and reduce the cyclical effects of bank capital (and regulation) on the supply of bank credit in stress.

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Abrigo

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Support credit risk management Understanding loan covenants, when financial institutions should use them, and how to monitor them supports strong lending portfolios and credit risk management best practices. Takeaway 2 Capital, performance, and administrative covenants are common with business loans.

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TheGuardian

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The regulator said it had made “substantial changes” to earlier proposals, meaning UK banks would not have to set aside as much money for capital buffers as previously planned. Capital buffers provide a financial cushion against risky lending and investments on bank balance sheets. Continue reading.

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TheGuardian

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Since the company was founded in 1800 in Rhode Island, the bank has never offered its home loan services at a branch location in a majority-Black or Latino neighborhood throughout the state, including in the state capital of Providence, where the vast majority of the state’s Black and Latino population live. Continue reading.

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BankUnderground

JUNE 9, 2021

‘Zombie lending’ occurs when a lender supports an otherwise insolvent borrower through forbearance measures such as repayment holidays and temporary interest-only loans. In a recent paper , I examine whether these lending practices contributed to the subsequent low output experienced by the euro area. Belinda Tracey.

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BankUnderground

JANUARY 12, 2021

Understanding gross capital flows is crucial for both macroeconomic and financial stability policy. However, theory is lagging behind empirical work , as much of the literature continues to rely on net capital flow models developed many decades ago. This has major implications for several policy debates.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2021

Though traditional financial institutions have faced a surge in market pressure to digitize as new FinTech competitors emerge, there are still plenty of areas in which banks hold the upper hand, commercial lending included. But an overwhelming surge in demand painfully exposed traditional banks' biggest shortcomings in business lending.

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Abrigo

AUGUST 30, 2024

Prepare now for potential changes to FHLBs Capital rules and membership criteria are among the areas where banks could see changes in how the Federal Home Loan Bank system operates. Capital rules and membership criteria are among the areas where banks could see changes. Abrigo is here to help.

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 18, 2023

WATCH Takeaway 1 Banks and credit unions are critical sources of capital for businesses in their communities, so how institutions assess CRE credits matters. Takeaway 3 Loan-level stress testing can help assess repricing risk, while capital stress testing helps clarify the impact of CRE loan losses on capital.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2019

The Financial Stability Board says Basel III rules have not led to a squeeze of the small business bank lending market, according to reports on Friday (June 7). The FSB announced Friday the findings of its analysis of Basel III regulations on the small business lending space.

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Abrigo

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Takeaway 3 Credit analysts need training to understand the working capital cycle, look for hidden risks, and be aware of accounting changes. It's about ensuring that every aspect of your lending operation is optimized for efficiency and effectiveness. Assess and control key risk areas with an effective credit policy.

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Abrigo

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Top down and bottom up analysis can inform capital assessments. Effective stress testing can benefit many different facets of lending, from risk management and strategic decision-making to capital adequacy and liquidity management. Stress testing and capital adequacy. Stress testing and risk management.

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BankUnderground

AUGUST 25, 2020

Dennis Reinhardt and Carlos van Hombeeck Have post-crisis reforms of banking regulation made banks and lending more resilient to the shock from Covid-19 and if so by how much?

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South State Correspondent

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Banks consistently produce under their cost of capital. However, for the average bank, their cost of capital is between 9% and 14% depending on the bank’s equity liquidity with an average of 12.5%. As an industry, we misallocate capital. You can’t develop lending expertise overnight. Why is that?

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BankUnderground

JANUARY 26, 2022

The 2008 global financial crisis showed the need for effective macroprudential policy. But what tools should macroprudential policy makers use and how effective are they? We found that capital requirements reduce the effects of financial shocks. Model 2 added capital requirements. What we do.

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Abrigo

AUGUST 28, 2022

Leveraging the efficiencies gained from lending software Banks and credit unions that leverage an integrated lending and credit platform reap the benefits of a consistent, efficient and defensible lending program. Lending and Credit Software. Ag Lending. Lending & Credit Risk. Lending & Credit Risk.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2018

In Kenya, the Capital Markets Authority (CMA) has issued its “FinTech Sandbox Guidance Note,” which is now finalized as policy. Under the terms of that license, said CNBC , the company will be able to offer full current accounts and business lending. Poland, Germany and France. license in the face of Brexit.

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American Banker

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

economy and local economies throughout our nation are being "hung out to dry" by regulators' push for increased capital requirements, according to the head of the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council. The small businesses that drive the U.S.

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BankUnderground

AUGUST 31, 2022

But while some of this development can build on well-grounded principles for financial stability policy, other aspects are likely to come up against three timeless challenges, requiring novel and innovative thinking to overcome. Figure 1 summarises the most common issues considered by the Financial Policy Committee in the last decade.

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American Banker

JULY 2, 2023

Higher capital requirements tend to drive certain lending activities away from banking and toward so-called shadow banks. How regulators shore up banks without driving their customers away is the source of a spirited philosophical debate in Washington.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2019

Government Accountability Office (GAO) said that financial regulators should look more closely at the role of non-bank tech companies in the small business (SMB) lending and consumer lending markets. Such alternative data, said the GAO, could pose risk to such lending decisions.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

has small businesses “scrambling to access financial resources to meet their working capital and long-term expansion needs,” Coface said in its report. National economic policy has China cracking down on its shadow banking market, which has also exacerbated small businesses’ struggle to access financing, analysts said.

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ABA Community Banking

JUNE 15, 2021

The FDIC proposed changes to its guidelines for real estate lending policies in order to align standards with the community bank leverage ratio, which does not require electing institutions to calculate tier 2 capital or total capital.

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Abrigo

MAY 19, 2023

The scope and depth of loan review Loan review requires a "renaissance banker" Loan review policies are typically reviewed and approved at least annually by the board of directors. Policy guidelines usually include a written description of the overall credit grading process and establish responsibilities for the various loan review functions.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2017

The issues, sources said at the time, could be attributed to problems in how CAN Capital reported delinquencies among its SME borrowers, leading the platform to breach agreements with major lenders, like Wells Fargo. It all stems back to 2010 or so, when CAN Capital launched ambitious growth plans to enter into new markets.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2021

One proposition is a 9 percent core capital requirement on the top tier, akin to banks. Middle-layer non-bank lenders would follow a board-approved policy on capital adequacy, and upper-layer shadow financiers would follow exposure rules like those big banks follow. It will only let them take on a limited amount of leverage.

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