House of cards? The $3 trillion (non-systemic) real estate risk

Regional banks share the bulk of US commercial real estate exposure, but the sector’s downturn doesn’t faze them

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The US commercial real estate slump might reasonably be expected to unsettle regional banks with a collective multi-trillion-dollar exposure to the sector. But some of the most exposed banks – and several of their regulators past and present – aren’t unduly rattled.

Take Oregon-based Umpqua Bank. It has the third-highest CRE exposure among banks with over $50 billion in assets. Its portfolio of over $10 billion in CRE loans exceeds 300% of its core capital – the threshold at which longstanding

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