Risk Management
A time of reckoning for commercial real estate
Banks face billions of dollars in troubled office and CRE loans as maturities loom.
Treasury
Compliance
Fed lays out plan to entice banks to do more mortgage lending
Loosening capital rules may partly persuade banks, but the product’s profitability is also an issue.
Treasury
Smaller businesses could be vulnerable in a bank crash
They’d last an average of 2.9 months if their primary bank failed, survey finds.
Treasury
Kevin Warsh’s Fed chair appointment could be a net positive for CFOs
But only if the Fed and Treasury ‘don’t get silly’ in their attempts to lower interest rates, said one expert.
Strategy
The Fed faces a more difficult year than usual
For CFOs, caution is a healthy response to what does (or doesn’t) happen at the central bank.
Treasury
Big bank earnings start to show signs of stress
But they maintain a positive outlook on consumer spending and borrowing.
Strategy
This week’s hot data
The release of December’s consumer price data kicked off a busy week for economists.
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