FDIC's Supervisory Insights Fall 2019 Edition Focuses on Commercial Real Estate Lending and the Leveraged Lending Market — 2019-12-23

FDIC’s Supervisory Insights Fall 2019 Edition Focuses on Commercial Real Estate Lending and the Leveraged Lending Market The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) today issued the Fall 2019 issue of Supervisory Insights, which contains two articles of interest to bank management. The first article, “Commercial Real Estate Loan Concentration Risk Management,” examines commercial real estate (CRE) exposure in the banking industry. The article also summarizes findings from recent risk management supervisory activities for FDIC-supervised insured depository institutions (IDIs) with CRE lending concentrations. “This article provides insights into current industry risk management practices. In a competitive lending environment, sound risk management of the CRE portfolio is critical for IDIs that specialize in CRE lending,” said Doreen R. Eberley, Director, FDIC Division of Risk Management Supervision.