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.
Bankers continued tightening credit for commercial real estate and certain consumer loans in the first quarter of 2017, while easing slightly on commercial and industrial lending, according to the Federal Reserve’s latest senior loan officer survey released today.
How Blaine Jackson helped save a North Carolina community bank and rebuild its connection with customers and investors.
The Federal Housing Finance Agency today released a progress report on its goals for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac while the GSEs are in federal conservatorship.
Since the Federal Housing Finance Agency launched a credit risk transfer program for GSEs Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in 2013, the enterprises have transferred $49 billion in credit risk to private investors, amounting to about 3.4 percent of $1.4 trillion in unpaid principal balance.
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.
Problem loans have declined—but anxiety over credit quality is building.
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.