One of the benefits of having so many financial institutions as clients is our ability to stay constantly informed regarding regulatory “hot-button” issues. Much of those issues have revolved around stress testing, credit underwriting support and enterprise risk management.
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In order to understand where your institution fits in the competitive commercial lending marketplace, peer analysis and the periodic measurement of industry trends is a must. As we consider it one of Cobblestone’s primary missions to help financial institutions remain informed, we did some number-crunching on your behalf to determine annualized commercial lending trends up to Q2 2017.
Continue Reading The OCC, which has been at the forefront of regulatory scrutiny of community banks, outlined its operating plan and list of priorities for its examiners in 2017. Specific to its review of commercial lending activities within community banks, the OCC operating plan highlighted credit underwriting as a major area of focus.
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In the January 2017 issue of the RMA Journal, in an article titled “Banks Needn’t Fear a 1984 Scenario”, the RMA quantified the cost of underwriting a commercial loan. Their estimate specific to the cost of credit analysis was $6,140 per underwrite.
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