Abrigo

MARCH 31, 2017

Commercial real estate lending continues to receive regulatory scrutiny and reminders for financial institutions to practice solid risk management. 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.

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Abrigo

MAY 19, 2023

The complexity and scope of a loan review system will vary based on an institution’s size, type of operations, and management practices. Systems may include components that are independent of the lending function or may place some reliance on loan officers.

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Perficient

JULY 12, 2023

Often an organization will have a state-charted non-member bank, which has the FDIC as its primary federal regulator. The guidance emphasizes that using third parties, especially those using new technologies, may present elevated risks to banking organizations and their customers, including operational, compliance, and strategic risks.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

House committee this week began reviewing the idea of allowing the likes of Amazon or Facebook to receive charters to operate as banks — an idea that’s already gotten plenty of pushback from traditional financial institutions (FIs). FDIC), the states and the courts.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 25, 2019

Fintechs are having trouble facing reality when it comes to obtaining bank charters, FDIC Chairman Jelena McWilliams and Comptroller of the Currency Joseph Otting said here at the FDIC’s Fintech and the Future of Banking conference on Wednesday. WASHINGTON, D.C.

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Abrigo

JULY 20, 2021

From leveraging PPP technology to building relationships, reasons for boosting SBA lending are numerous. . Takeaway 2 Far fewer financial institutions regularly participate in SBA (7a) lending than the more than 5,000 that joined the PPP. . Why SBA Lending? Want other articles like this on SBA loan origination in your inbox?

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South State Correspondent

APRIL 30, 2024

Lending Discipline : Sensible pricing methodology is part of a loan hedging program, and some hedge providers also offer a loan pricing model. Second, the hedge provider must be an FDIC insured institution and structure its hedges as a qualified financial contract (QFC). Banks are in the business of keeping loans, not making loans.

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South State Correspondent

APRIL 30, 2024

Lending Discipline : Sensible pricing methodology is part of a loan hedging program, and some hedge providers also offer a loan pricing model. Second, the hedge provider must be an FDIC insured institution and structure its hedges as a qualified financial contract (QFC). Banks are in the business of keeping loans, not making loans.

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Jeff For Banks

AUGUST 14, 2022

In 2012 the Obama administration launched "Operation Choke Point" ("OCP") which was designed to ensure banks considered the risk of banking payday lenders that were engaged in abusive practices. The FDIC's quarterly Supervisory Insights for Summer 2011 had a list! Let bankers determine if lending to this industry or that is risky.

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CFPB Monitor

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

The OCC and FDIC issued proposed rules this week intended to eliminate the uncertainty created by the Second Circuit’s decision in Madden v. Comments on the FDIC’s proposal must be submitted no later than 60 days after the date the proposal is published in the Federal Register. Midland Funding. 85 [or 12 U.S.C

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CFPB Monitor

JANUARY 2, 2019

The CFPB and the federal banking agencies—the FDIC, Fed, and OCC— remain open during the government shutdown as their funding does not come from congressional appropriations. Also closed during the shutdown are many HUD operations and activities. However, the shutdown has resulted in the closing of the FTC.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 23, 2020

The company offers FDIC-insured bank accounts and a Visa -branded payment cards for teens (aged 13-18) with budgeting features and other financial education tools built in. More than a half-million users signed on within the first six weeks of operation. Step aims to fill that hole by creating what it calls “family banking services.”

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2019

In a press release , Fundation said it is collaborating with Banc of California to develop a streamlined, digital small business lending and line of credit solution that the bank can offer to its small business clients. SMBs can use the tool to apply for financing through an online application on the Banc of California website. .

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CFPB Monitor

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The FDIC has issued a final rule setting forth the conditions it will impose and the commitments it will require to approve a deposit insurance application from an industrial bank or industrial loan company (collectively, ILC) whose parent company is not subject to consolidated supervision by the Federal Reserve Board (FRB).

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2019

“Time and time again we hear from small businesses that access to capital is the biggest obstacle to growth,” Company.com Chief Operating Officer David Kramer said in the announcement. Yet the FDIC said in previous analysis that the actual volume of traditional bank loans to small businesses in the U.S.

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South State Correspondent

AUGUST 21, 2022

Lending Discipline: Hedging programs make loan pricing more transparent and force bankers to exercise sensible pricing methodologies. Second, community banks should use FDIC-insured institutions as hedge providers, and the hedges must be structured as qualified financial contracts (QFC).

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Abrigo

MARCH 2, 2023

But when a storm hit, limitations on the back end due to its insufficient operations technology hampered Southwest’s ability to handle the most basic customer service in that industry: getting customers safely where they needed to be. A buyer’s guide for lending software for smaller financial institutions can be helpful.

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CFPB Monitor

MAY 18, 2022

After moving alone in 2020 to reform its Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) regulation, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has joined the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and Federal Reserve Board in issuing a joint notice of proposed rulemaking setting forth proposed amendments to their regulations implementing the CRA.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The FDIC designated SVB as systemically important. They provide white-label payments and depository services (think Paypal, Chime) and deploy that funding into specialized lending programs such as lending to wealth management firms, commercial fleet leasing, and real estate bridge lending.

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CFPB Monitor

JUNE 13, 2022

One issue raised in the RFI is “to what extent should the CFPB be consulted by the FDIC when considering the convenience and needs factor and should that consultation be formalized?”. Whether the FDIC finds these arguments persuasive is yet to be seen.

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Abrigo

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Overall, FDIC-insured commercial banks and savings institutions aren’t seeing dramatic increases in net charge-offs ( Chart 1 ) or rates related to declining asset quality ( Chart 2 ), such as past-due rates and rates for non-current loans. Comments on the proposal were due Oct.

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CFPB Monitor

MAY 6, 2021

Atlanticus/Fortiva performs all of the collections, servicing, payment and remittance operations in connection with the accounts. The OCFR claims that the Bank’s failure to hold the required lending licenses makes the loans unenforceable and prohibits Atlanticus/Fortiva from collecting any amounts on the loans.

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CFPB Monitor

OCTOBER 9, 2018

The FDIC’s Center for Financial Research has issued a research paper that discusses the use of the information contained in a “digital footprint,” meaning the information that people leave online by accessing or registering on a website, for predicting consumer default. The operating system (e.g. tablet or mobile). iOS or Android).

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

While many digital-first companies springboard from payments into lending, Figure Technologies , a FinTech focused on home improvement, debt consolidation and retirement products that leverage blockchain protocols, is branching out from lending into payments. Blockchain and a bank charter might do much to boost financial inclusion.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2017

Which means it really doesn’t come as all that huge a surprise that as of June 6th, SoFi had applied for a new (de novo) bank charter according to the FDIC. Instead, SoFi as a bank will exist so it can “provide its customers an FDIC insured NOW account and a credit card product. SoFi has confirmed the news.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2020

As COVID-19 saps consumer demand across all manner of verticals, and small businesses bear the brunt of a sudden disappearance of revenues, the firms that lend to those SMBs are feeling heat, too. The company is also reportedly “completely” closing down its Bangalore, India operations. staff, which has 500 employees.

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FICO

OCTOBER 4, 2016

The potential of alternative data in consumer lending decisions continues to be a hot topic in Washington, D.C., Adopted in 1977, the CRA is intended to encourage depository institutions to help meet the credit needs of the communities in which they operate, including low- and moderate-income neighborhoods.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2019

Axos Bank parent company Axos Financial has rolled out out commercial banking operations across new markets in the U.S., “The nation’s two largest metropolitan areas are home to a majority of our commercial lending and banking clients,” said Greg Garrabrants, president and CEO of Axos, in a statement.

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 19, 2019

In 2020, we will likely see financial institutions putting more emphasis on automating time-consuming, manual processes that bog down lending decisions. By automating these mundane, laborious tasks, lenders and credit analysts are then able to focus their time on the borrower or member and make faster, more efficient lending decisions.

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Those read most often in the past year include several that offer practical advice for operating ALM and CECL models. Abrigo's most popular risk management blogs over the last 12 months cover topics that continue to catch the attention of professionals and regulators. The FASB’s description of proposed changes can be found here.

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Abrigo

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Is the current period a good time to expand your operations? How do you expect your bank’s capital expenditures on facilities or operations to change over the next 12 months? The survey for the inaugural index included 512 FDIC banks responding from early in the second quarter through July 5. Asset/Liability. Credit Risk.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2019

In the world of small business financial services, entrepreneurs’ frustrations with banking have been loudly vocalized : firms are often considered too small to be profitable for banks’ corporate services units and are therefore pushed into an FI’s consumer banking operations.

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CFPB Monitor

DECEMBER 19, 2019

The OCC and FDIC have issued a joint proposal to revise their regulations implementing the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA). Although the Federal Reserve, OCC and FDIC, are the primary CRA regulators, the Fed did not join the proposal and presumably will issue a separate proposal. ” Click here to register.

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Abrigo

MAY 5, 2022

Sometimes 20 minutes, sometimes 50 minutes, this podcast digs into such topics as creating branch experiences that go hand-in-hand with digital ones, identifying risk, and consumer lending. It also examines how community banks are different than other types of financial institutions, along with strategies for optimal operations.

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Abrigo

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Financial institutions generate most of their income by lending and investment activities. A recent study by the Cleveland Fed noted that traditionally, noninterest income is only 30% to 40% of small banks’ operating revenue, compared with over half of large banks’ revenue. Types of Noninterest Income. An important source of revenue.

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Abrigo

JANUARY 22, 2015

The 2014 Small Business Credit Survey was a joint operation conducted by the Federal Reserve Banks of New York, Atlanta, Cleveland and Philadelphia. While the approval rates are high and portfolios are expanding, the OCC did point out that lending standards continued to soften.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 24, 2019

By way of example, FinTechs must cobble together money transmitter licenses from each state in which they operate. And in effect, these tech-savvy upstarts would have been able to act like banks, operating as banks do, to take deposits and make loans. Can’t get the charter without FDIC coverage.

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