The OCC is focusing on credit risk, compliance risk and strategic risk as its top supervisory priorities at community and midsize banks, according to the agency’s Semiannual Risk Perspective report released today.

With interest rates on the rise and new leadership in D.C., risk conditions on the ground are considerably different today from one year ago.

Total loan balances at FDIC-insured banks grew 6.8 percent between September 2015 and September 2016, with considerable growth occurring in commercial real estate, agricultural, and oil and gas lending portfolios, the agency said in the winter issue of its Supervisory Insights publication released today.

In the wake of the scandal over fake accounts created at Wells Fargo, the OCC has added a strong emphasis on governance of sales practices to its risk supervision for large banks, according to the agency’s Semiannual Risk Perspective released today.

With the path of oil prices uncertain but not forecast to improve substantially in the coming months, the FDIC today issued guidance reiterating principles for prudently managing risks associated with oil and gas exposures.

The OCC is focusing on credit risk and strategic risk as the top risk priorities in its supervision of community and midsize banks, according to the agency’s Semiannual Risk Perspective report released today.

Is there a bubble forming in the U.S. commercial real estate market? Some investors and analysts seem to think so.

How robust competition, regulatory pressure and economic fundamentals are shaping the CRE market in 2016.

The federal banking agencies today issued a statement warning about eased commercial real estate loan underwriting and CRE risk management practices that cause “concern.”

Credit risk, in the form of relaxed underwriting and increased loan concentrations, is on the rise, Comptroller of the Currency Thomas Curry said at a risk management conference in Boston today.