ABI Blog Exchange

2020-05-14
Closing loans is just one way BMO Harris and other banks are looking to use online notarization. But there are obstacles to overcome before it becomes standard practice.

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2020-05-14
Bank of America is set to price today a $1 billion bond issue to fund Covid-19 relief efforts. It's the first sale from a U.S. financial institution that explicitly links all proceeds to tackling the virus, Bloomberg data show.

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2020-05-14
What?  Who says?

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2020-05-14
The company, which develops "persona-based intelligence," software counts Visa and American Express among its clients.

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2020-05-14
Congress authorized the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to intervene if the pandemic caused a liquidity scare, but nearly two months later deposits are through the roof and the agency has not acted on the expanded authority.

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2020-05-14
The agency's announcement came one day after the agency said it would provide borrowers struggling to stay current with an additional payment deferral option.

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2020-05-14
H&R Block intends to break off the relationship since the parties have been unable to restructure compensation to reflect new interchange fee caps at Axos.

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2020-05-14
A properly deployed combination of asset-based lending, commercial loans and investment banking is imperative in these circumstances.

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2020-05-14
The German bank’s money laundering controls are still not up to snuff, among other problems; three Democrats say banks may have shortchanged small-business borrowers.

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2020-05-13
Often overlooked in narratives about essential workers, branch and call-center employees are responding to challenges posed by the COVID-19 crisis.

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2020-05-13
But market observers remain unsure whether changes to the $100 billion Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility program will boost CLO investor demand or new-deal issuance, given key restrictions that remain in place.

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2020-05-13
In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, the Appraisal Institute issued guidance to its MAI appraisers regarding the new challenges and limitations on rendering an opinion of real estate value in the wake of a disaster when markets are unstable or ch