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Auto lending up more than 30 percent at credit unions since 2012

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Two big ticket items – homes and cars – are on the minds of many consumers, and this could spell success for many credit unions. And just as in mortgage lending , credit unions are seeing a bigger piece of the consumer loan pie. credit union auto lending portfolios are faring. billion).

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Which loan types are fueling bank growth?

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While total lending expanded by over four percent between March 2012 and March 2013, the growth rate decelerated to less than four percent the following year. Specifically, community banks achieved a five percent annual growth rate in the third quarter of 2014, after seeing total CRE loans fall from 2009 through the end of 2012.

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How to develop a sound MBL strategy

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Credit unions have seen an unprecedented uptick in business-related loans in recent years, according to the Credit Union National Association’s (CUNA) U.S. Credit Union Profile. From June 2007 to December 2012, MBL volume increased 66 percent, growing from $26.04 Blog Credit Union'

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CECL is a hot topic at Sageworks Risk Management Summit

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Presentations at the conference, which kicked off Wednesday in Chicago and runs through Friday, have focused on how financial institutions will be impacted by the transition from the existing incurred-loss model, as well as what banks and credit unions can do now to better prepare for CECL ’s eventual implementation.

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Managing your credit union’s loan data

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Whether it’s part of a CECL preparedness conversation or part of a more proactive approach to risk management under existing regulatory expectations, the topic of “loan-level data” has repeatedly come up since the 2012 proposal from the FASB. These data silos make it all the harder for credit unions to begin data archiving.

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How much M&A will we see in 2015?

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With the number of commercial banks continuing to decrease, 5,636 as of Q3 2014 from 6,110 as of Q3 2012 according to FRED data , many expect the overall number of commercial banks to decrease even further – largely as a result of M&A activity rather than bank failures. Blog Bank Credit Union'

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The current landscape for MBL regulation

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In a recent Sageworks webinar , Ancin Cooley of Synergy Credit Union Consulting took a deep dive into five areas that credit unions interested in growing their MBL portfolios need to be aware of in order to effectively manage risk in the MBL portfolio. He started with a compare-and-contrast of MBL and commercial loans.