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Zero-day options and financial market vulnerability

BankUnderground

Their flexibility, low premia and underlying leverage appeal to all market participants ranging from conservative investors hedging against intraday market volatility to aggressive traders speculating for quick profit generation. The improved market conditions have encouraged both market participation and innovation.

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The Impact of Reciprocal Tariffs on Community Banking

South State Correspondent

The move shook the markets, threatening to upend much of the architecture of the global economy and fueled broader trade wars. The recent uncertain shifts in trade policies, particularly increased tariffs on imports from China, Canada, and Mexico, have introduced specific uncertainties for community banks.

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Create and Maintain an Effective Loan Policy

Abrigo

Confident Risk Management Begins with Sound Loan Policy A risk-based approach to loan policy can effectively improve your institution's profitability. You might also like this webinar on loan policy best practices. Loan policies make up the foundation for managing that credit risk. . When and how to update your policy.

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The resilience of small businesses: Insights for lenders

Abrigo

Businesses' working capital cycles are longer. businesses are privately held, and most are small, so the unique, aggregated view into how these private firms perform provides leadership teams with insight to make informed decisions about the large and growing small business market. Leveraged has improved since 2019. Nearly all U.S.

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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. Takeaway 3 A credit exception policy should spell out what one is, when it can be used, and how to clear it.

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Unifying monetary and macroprudential policy

BankUnderground

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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Cannabis lending for financial institutions: Opportunities, risks, and best practices

Abrigo

Cannabis-related businesses (CRBs)spanning everything from cultivation to retailrepresent a market in need of lending services, from working capital to real estate and equipment loans. Get details The opportunities: Why cannabis lending may make good business sense The legalized cannabis market grew $2.6

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