I have heard there are regulatory relief benefits from insuring, with an investment-grade rated policy, all or a portion of CRE loans.  Can anyone tell me what are those benefits to a bank and how important or beneficial?  Is there a way to measure that ...

I recently learned that our bank books disregarded entities that use the owner's SSN in the same way that they book dba accounts (i.e. John Doe dba ABC, LLC).  The reason given was to prevent the IRS from identifying these entities as having a TIN mismatch. ...

We are looking at re-financing an office building complex in Texas.  The survey shows a utility easement under the center one of the 2 buildings. Apparently the previous lender was able to get comfortable with the existence of this easement.  We are ...