Abrigo

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Understand and meet borrower expectations For community financial institutions (CFIs), small business lending presents both a challenge and an opportunity. Understanding what small businesses need from a lending partner is the first step in improving loan decisioning. According to Kirby, speed is the top priority.

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Abrigo

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Driving efficiency and reducing risk Construction loan risk management software leverages technology and sound process management to pull construction lending away from its manual roots. You might also like this webinar, "How to manage a high-performing construction loan portfolio." Construction Lending.

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Abrigo

APRIL 11, 2025

For example, if cattle lending occurs across four markets, reviewing it holistically requires manual effort just to piece together a universe from which to draw a sample. For the first time, we could evaluate lending segments independently of the bank's organization. The results? appeared first on Abrigo.

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Abrigo

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Automating the key steps that often occur in the back office leads to faster decisions, stronger customer or member relationships, and more profitable lending to small businesses. This article covers these key topics: Cultivating fertile ground for small business lending Do large lenders have an advantage in small business lending?

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Abrigo

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Fortify your credit risk management framework How to prepare your organization for scrutiny of its credit risk management practices during your next exam or review. . You might also like this whitepaper, "Stress Testing: Managing Capital Levels and Credit Risk." Lending & Credit Risk.

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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. Abrigo's blog covered these and other subjects in 35 credit and lending-specific posts this year.

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Abrigo

MAY 2, 2024

Boost your small business lending efforts from the bottom up Small businesses play a crucial role in our economy, and one of the critical factors in their success is access to funding. You might also like this guide for smarter, faster small business lending.

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Abrigo

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Visualize your data, access benchmarks, and streamline reporting learn more talk with an expert Webinar Commercial Lending Credit Risk Management Lending & Credit Risk When good loans go bad: Managing problem and distressed loans Learn More Webinar Commercial Lending Lending & Credit Risk Small Business Lending Answering your top CFPB 1071 (..)

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Abrigo

MARCH 21, 2025

The latest CRA framework categorizes banks (CRA requirements are not extended to credit unions) into three tiers based on asset size, with differing compliance requirements: Small banks (assets under $600 million) Can opt-in to the new CRA tests or remain on a streamlined lending test that focuses on retail activities.

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Abrigo

APRIL 25, 2024

Recent data and trends of the small business lending market SMB Lending Insights is a snapshot of current financial trends and metrics that impact small and medium-sized business (SMB) lending and financial institutions. You might also like this guide for smarter, faster small business lending.

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Abrigo's most popular whitepapers and checklists on lending and credit risk Abrigo experts' insights on CFPB 1071, loan policies, and risk ratings were popular with banking professionals. You might also like this webinar, "Unraveling risk rating: Making sense of your best early warning tool." Here are the top resources.

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Abrigo

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Develop an MBL program while mitigating risk Credit unions looking for alternate paths to growth in today's rising rate environment may be primed to leverage member business lending. Takeaway 3 The specific policy areas outlined below should be carefully considered by credit unions engaged in member business lending.

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Abrigo

AUGUST 1, 2022

What are model risk management and model validation? Model risk management (MRM) is a framework of systemic oversight of the models a financial institution or organization relies on for financial reporting, decision-making, and other critical purposes. Lending & Credit Risk. Portfolio Risk & CECL.

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Dave Koch, Managing Director of Abrigo Advisory Services and a lead faculty member of the Graduate School of Banking at the University of WisconsinMadison, said that with additional rate cuts, financial institutions could face a squeeze on net interest margin spread. The commercial real estate office sector remains stressed.

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Abrigo

JULY 20, 2024

Ready to catch the next wave of lending growth? Commercial and industrial lending (C&I) will be the next big performance driver for banks and credit unions. You might also like this paper on how institutions can produce smarter, faster lending. C&I lending will be the next “bomb.”

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Abrigo

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Key Takeaways Financial institutions who want to maintain a healthy share of business lending this year and through potentially tougher economic times ahead want to be in the best position possible before trouble hits. Abrigo's Business Lending Readiness Survey found many processes stymie those efforts. learn more.

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Abrigo

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Cybersecurity | 4 minute read Key Takeaways Third-party/vendor risk management is becoming increasingly challenging with more cloud-based providers. On top of initial vendor due diligence, there are ongoing, systematic approaches to managing third-party relationships. . Credit Risk. Lending & Credit Risk.

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South State Correspondent

MARCH 13, 2023

The longer the duration in the investment portfolio, the shorter the duration should be on the lending portfolio. The post Silicon Valley Bank Failure – Lessons in Interest Rate Risk Management appeared first on SouthState Correspondent Division. That combination made their liabilities very sensitive to safety.

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South State Correspondent

MARCH 24, 2025

In this challenging environment, bankers have an unparalleled opportunity to step forward as trusted advisors, providing valuable guidance, innovative financial structures, and prudent risk management to support both their bank and commercial customers.

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Abrigo

APRIL 11, 2025

One example: a $400 million-plus bank serving customers and businesses in western Ohio and through its specialty lines of business nationwide began a project to optimize its use of Abrigos Sageworks lending and credit solutions. Find out how Abrigo helps optimize lending with small business loan origination software.

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Abrigo

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

How construction administration units mitigate construction lending risk Construction lending involves unique risks and requires specialized processes. You might also like this webinar, "How to manage a high-performing construction loan portfolio." Takeaway 2 Construction lending risk is unique.

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South State Correspondent

JUNE 25, 2024

In this article, we provide a concrete example of how product management in lending might work. Product Management in Lending – The Strategy of a Loan-Level Hedging Program The goal of product management in lending strategy is to create value versus your competition in credit.

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Abrigo

MARCH 21, 2023

If an institution wasn’t fully prepared, however, it can nevertheless meet its goals using tailored asset/liability management (ALM) strategies. The blue line shows the effective funds rate, or the average rate at which institutions are actually lending and borrowing funds from one another. Is the reward worth the risk?

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Abrigo

OCTOBER 23, 2019

In a marketplace where data is shared and distributed at record speeds, third-party or vendor risk management is a challenge for most businesses. We are seeing banks moving to the cloud for a number of services ranging from core processing to lending. The banking industry is no stranger to this.

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Abrigo

APRIL 19, 2022

Credit and Lending Software Overcome Common Lending Problems 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. Robert Ashbaugh, Abrigo senior risk management consultant.

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Abrigo

JULY 25, 2022

Strong demand is a factor in the ag lending outlook ahead Ag lenders can begin taking steps to ensure they are prepared and can provide positive customer or member experiences. The outlook for ag lending has its share of uncertainty. Inflation, rates are factors in ag lending outlook. Farmers expect worse in 2023. Rising inputs.

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Perficient

AUGUST 4, 2024

Implementing API Management provides full lifecycle support for your API’s, API discovery, and a developer portal to streamline both development and operational needs. Enhanced Risk Management Risk management is a critical aspect of financial services.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2020

FinTechs continue to push the envelope to see how far open banking frameworks can go in improving the SMB banking experience, and increasingly, SMB lending is shifting to the center of these collaborative efforts. In the U.K., While more financial service providers in the U.S. “The roadmap to regulation has been in place [in the U.K.]

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Abrigo

JANUARY 3, 2023

Takeaway 2 Lenders must follow strict procedures to mitigate risk and keep the outstanding loan balance scaled to the collateral value. Construction lending from the ground up. Strischek included the following information, which can help lenders avoid risk before the project begins—by planning ahead at the closing table.

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Perficient

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

By embedding payment, lending, and insurance services into apps and websites, non-financial companies are able to offer financial products directly to their customers. In 2025, AI will play a pivotal role in customer service, fraud detection, risk management, and personalized financial advice.

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Abrigo

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Key topics covered in this post: Regulatory focus Key questons for ALCOs Governance and concentration risks Expect the unexpected Regulators 'could not be more clear' Today’s regulatory climate is turning up the heat on financial institutions when it comes to liquidity and interest rate risk management.

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Abrigo

MARCH 31, 2025

The lender needs to put forth an accurate and complete picture of the borrowernot only for the borrowers sake, but also for the financial institutions risk management. Getting to just right Credit memos play a critical role in risk management and credit decisioning.

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Abrigo

AUGUST 28, 2022

Develop better ag lending workflows before demand picks up. A better ag lending process makes applying smoother for borrowers and can allow efficient ag loan growth without adding a lot of staff. Takeaway 1 Now is the time to plant the seeds for harvesting growth in the ag loan portfolio by creating a better ag lending process.

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Abrigo

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Key Takeaways Commercial real estate lending will be a top focus for many financial institutions in 2020. Despite expectations for growth, bankers, regulators, investors, and others are watchful about potentially lower returns and credit risks ahead. Heading into 2020, banks seem to be continuing to respond to risk concerns.

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Abrigo

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Now, many of the nearly 5,500 SBA-approved lenders that are participating in the PPP are weighing the option of leveraging that technology to continue to provide SBA lending after PPP. Leveraging tech for SBA lending after PPP. Or, they might wonder whether it’s too late to start 7(a) lending if they’ve never done it before the PPP.

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Abrigo

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Our intelligent fraud detection software and risk management tools help fraud professionals in their fight against financial crime. Jay Blandford is Chief Executive Officer of Abrigo, a leading provider of risk management, financial crime prevention, and lending software and services that help more than 2,500 U.S.

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