Article: Home equity talk.(Whispers)

Among the lending categories drawing extra attention from regulators these days are home equity loans.

Often representing a second mortgage on a house, home equity loans are drawing heightened risk assessment these days.

Only one Arkansas bank holding company ranked among the 100 largest home equity portfolios at year-end 2008: Arvest Bank Group Inc. of Bentonville, the largest banking concern in the state.

Its home equity portfolio grew 11.6 percent from 2007 to ...

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