Many banks anticipate that they will ease credit standards and terms for large and middle-market firms in 2018, but they expect to cool things down in the robust commercial real estate market, according to the Federal Reserve’s latest senior loan officer opinion survey released today.

Bankers continued tightening credit for commercial real estate and certain consumer loans in the second quarter of 2017, while residential mortgage lending eased and commercial and industrial standards remained mostly unchanged, according to the Federal Reserve’s latest senior loan officer survey released today.

Bankers continued tightening credit for commercial real estate loans and consumer loans in the last three months while holding steady on other business loans and easing credit standards very slightly in their home mortgage portfolios, according to the Federal Reserve’s latest senior loan officer survey released today.

Over the past three months, banks reported tightening lending standards for C&I and CRE loans, according to the July 2016 Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending Practices. The survey results also indicated that demand for C&I loans was little changed during the second quarter of 2016, while demand for CRE loans had strengthened on net. Although most bank ...

Bankers continued tightening credit for business loans and auto loans in the last three months while they continued to ease credit standards slightly in their home mortgage and consumer loan portfolios, according to the Federal Reserve’s latest senior loan officer survey released today.

Over the past three months, banks reported tightening lending standards for C&I and CRE loans on net according to the April 2016 Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending Practices. The survey results indicate that demand for C&I loans weakened during the first quarter of 2016, while CRE loan demand strengthened. Banks also reported easing lending standards for most ...

Bankers continued tightening credit for business loans in the last three months while they continued to ease credit standards slightly in their home mortgage and consumer loan portfolios, according to the Federal Reserve’s latest senior loan officer survey released today.

Over the past three months, banks reported easing lending standards and weaker demand for a variety of home loan types. In contrast, lending standards for C&I and CRE loans tightened amid strengthening fourth quarter demand, according to the January Federal Reserve Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey. Although the majority of banks did not change their lending standards, a net 8.3 ...

Citing the economic outlook, bankers are showing signs of tightening credit for business loans while they continued to ease credit standards slightly in their home mortgage and consumer loan portfolios, according to the Federal Reserve’s latest senior loan officer survey released today.