{"id":2156,"date":"2006-02-02T17:28:33","date_gmt":"2006-02-02T17:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2156"},"modified":"2006-02-02T17:28:33","modified_gmt":"2006-02-02T17:28:33","slug":"feds_bies_warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2156","title":{"rendered":"Fed&#8217;s Bies Warns on Mortgage &#038; Real Estate Lending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/today.reuters.com\/news\/newsarticle.aspx?type=businessNews&amp;storyid=2006-02-02T151721Z_01_N02274609_RTRUKOC_0_US-ECONOMY-FED-BIES.xml\">Reuters<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Regulators are concerned about heavy commercial real estate exposures and risky mortgage lending practices at U.S. banks, Federal Reserve Board Governor Susan Bies said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are certain rapidly growing business lines in banking operations that are placing pressures on risk-management systems,&#8221; Bies told a financial services industry conference as she outlined guidance regulators have issued on commercial real estate and so-called nontraditional mortgage lending.<\/p>\n<p>In discussing the guidance on exotic mortgage products, such as interest-only loans, Bies repeated that government regulators were concerned risk-management practices had not kept pace with the risks that these widely available loan products could present.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters: Regulators are concerned about heavy commercial real estate exposures and risky mortgage lending practices at U.S. banks, Federal Reserve Board Governor Susan Bies said on Thursday. &#8220;There are certain rapidly growing business lines in banking operations that are placing pressures on risk-management systems,&#8221; Bies told a financial services industry conference as she outlined guidance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}