Abrigo

OCTOBER 14, 2014

When it comes to the risk management process, there is no one-size-fits-all approach. “It is as much an art as a science,” says Tim McPeak, risk management consultant at Sageworks. Many technological solutions can also automate reports for loan grading, global cash flow analysis and calculating reserves.

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Insights on Business

JUNE 18, 2019

Risk brings rewards. Risk management professionals are comfortable with ideas about growth curves and early versus late investment. Risk management demands a lot of data from many different sources, and traditional database management systems are too slow for the granular analytics needed today.

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Abrigo

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Prepare for regulator scrutiny on interest rate risk & liquidity Banks and credit unions that aren't paying attention to these critical issues can expect a tough review. With the uncertain economic outlook, regulators and examiners have been regularly conveying their top priorities for banks and credit unions.

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Insights on Business

JANUARY 3, 2019

Cybersecurity risk is at or near the top of every list of concerns for these institutions. Simultaneously, regulators and auditors are issuing new cybersecurity regulations and guidelines. Three pillars of cyber risk management on the cloud. Implementing an effective, end-to-end cyber risk framework.

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Perficient

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

This blog was co-authored by Perficient Risk and Regulatory CoE Member: Alicia Lawrence Perficient’s Risk and Regulatory Center of Excellence (CoE) remains at the forefront of evolving financial rules and regulations, ensuring readiness to tackle emerging challenges and safeguard financial institutions and its customers.

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Abrigo

AUGUST 7, 2023

Applying model risk management to CECL What's involved in CECL model validation? Learn what banks, credit unions, and others subject to CECL accounting can expect from this risk management process. Model validation is a crucial aspect of model risk management.

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Perficient

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

This blog was co-authored by Perficient Risk and Regulatory CoE Member: Alicia Lawrence The announcement of significant amendments to the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYSDFS) regulations on December 1, 2023, represents a pivotal moment for entities operating within New York’s financial sector.

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Abrigo

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Cash flow analysis: Draft policies focused on consistent and accurate cash flow analyses. Consider that global cash flow analysis will be necessary for complex borrowers and outline cases in which analysis is encouraged. Get ready for the next credit cycle with credit department housekeeping tips from this webinar.

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Perficient

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Immediately following the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) failure, Perficient’s Financial Services Risk Management and Regulatory Capabilities Center of Excellence (CoE) swiftly analyzed publicly available documents, providing readers with a comprehensive breakdown of the bank’s failure.

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Abrigo

AUGUST 2, 2023

Takeaway 2 Financial institutions have been taking a three-pronged approach to identifying and quantifying risks associated with their CRE segments. Takeaway 3 Financial institution management can focus on mitigating risk and understanding portfolio dynamics when the analysis is streamlined. See how in this whitepaper.

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Perficient

JUNE 25, 2024

Toll Gates Are Needed To avoid repeating such scenarios, of that rather dire history, Hsu advocated for regulators and the industry to proactively identify points where growth and development should pause to ensure responsible innovation and build trust.

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Takeaway 3 Updates on interest rate forecasting and best practices for managing CRE risk were among the most-read blogs. Abrigo's most popular risk management blogs over the last 12 months cover topics that continue to catch the attention of professionals and regulators.

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Abrigo

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Improve tickler management: Ticklers are often managed by committee, but accountability and follow-through are necessary to ensure these tasks are handled efficiently. Assign clear responsibilities and establish accountability at all levels—from mechanics and calculations to analysis of covenant breaches.

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Perficient

JUNE 19, 2024

Our risk and regulatory compliance experts, Carl Aridas and Chandni Patel, have just returned from XLoD 2024 in New York. The event brought together the world’s top financial institutions and regulators to discuss the future of non-financial risk and control.

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Abrigo

JUNE 28, 2024

Navigating interest rate management in today's environment As regulators focus on interest rate risk management, read about what financial institutions can do to be ready for a rate drop. You might also like this on-demand webinar, "Navigating uncertain times: Strategies for effective risk management and compliance."

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Regular training of lending and credit risk staff helps keep processes and systems in shape to produce good loans. Aside from formal training, one way that banks and credit unions can ensure staff are attuned to the latest regulations and best practices is by routinely sharing lending and credit risk resources.

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Abrigo

JUNE 11, 2021

Would you like other articles on asset/liability management in your inbox? Takeaway 1 Regulators stress sound risk management practices that include the ability to identify and measure interest rate risk (IRR). Takeaway 3 The most common model to measure long-term IRR is an economic value of equity (EVE) analysis.

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Abrigo

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

As a loan reviewer, you need to be technically sound in order to do your job, which means you need to have a fundamental understanding of financial analysis, tax analysis, and all of the regulatory laws that surround the credits that you’re going to be reviewing,” Cooley says. Credit Analysis Training. Credit Risk Management.

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Perficient

MAY 30, 2024

Our banking risk and regulatory experts are excited to attend the upcoming XLoD Global event in New York on June 11th. The world’s leading financial institutions and regulators come together at XLoD to discuss the future of non-financial risk and control. What is XLoD Global?

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Perficient

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

This being the first blog post in a series of blogs by Perficient’s Financial Services Risk Management and Regulatory Capabilities Center of Excellence (CoE), we will be investigating the deposit structures of non-client banks over time.

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Insights on Business

JULY 30, 2019

Advanced analytics and aggregation technology can be applied to dynamically aggregate data and conduct large scale, real time analysis. The offering is built on the IBM Workspace Analyzer platform, an in-memory platform that aggregates and manages data across multiple sources in real-time. Waiting will not work.

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Abrigo

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Stress Testing | 7 minute read Key Takeaways Stress testing is an important component of sound risk management. Top down and bottom up analysis can inform capital assessments. Stress testing provides banks and credit unions with a unique opportunity to better manage their institution’s financial performance. .

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Insights on Business

MARCH 4, 2019

It seems like just yesterday when complying with regulation was the end goal in itself. The bulk of these efforts were focused on simply churning out reports to keep regulators happy. Whether financial institutions and their risk systems are ready or not, those days of simple reporting are behind us.

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Abrigo

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

While some alerts are simple and can easily be handled by AI, many are complex and require extensive analysis. AI reduces the risk of costly false positives for simple alerts that can drain resources and leave the complexities to human analysis. BAM+ was built for your unique risk profile.

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Perficient

JULY 10, 2023

But, as one of the most regulated and notoriously untrusted industries, the financial services industry is among the most vulnerable to being impacted by negative digital media, driving up its vulnerability to reputational risk. However, these reputational risk management (RRM) frameworks are still widely underdeveloped.

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South State Correspondent

MAY 7, 2024

On April 26, 2024, Republic First Bank (DBA Republic Bank) was seized by state regulators and the long running bank drama came to an end. Instead, our industry must insist that bank risk managers be held to a higher standard that includes using modern, simple, and inexpensive risk mitigation models and techniques.

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Blog posts to help your asset/liability management (ALM) staff strategize for the future These ALM posts were the most popular in 2022. Our top ten blogs were created by Abrigo's team, which includes former bankers, regulators, and industry experts. Would you like other articles like this in your inbox? Learn more. Keep me informed.

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Abrigo

MAY 19, 2023

In addition, they should be familiar with pertinent laws and regulations affecting credit and lending activities. Some banks have enough critical mass to rotate junior teammates from credit analysis to workout to loan review for 6-month exposures to each of these areas before sending them on to lending assignments.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

According to the press release, LIKEZERO will help to boost a new, more intelligent level of insight, helping banks, financial institutions (FIs) and other regulated businesses to analyze and extract insight and data from clients' clients.

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 1, 2021

There will always be risks inherent in loan portfolios, and effective portfolio management and loan control functions are critical to the overall risk management function of banks and credit unions. Banks are required by regulators to have formal risk rating policies in place to determine how ratings are assigned.

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Insights on Business

JUNE 27, 2018

Regulators are no longer willing to accept ALM and LR metrics once a month. Banks know they must be ready to provide regulators with a quick response to regulatory stress tests. They have a critical need for technology that can provide insight into risks embedded in their banking books. The benefits of innovation.

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Abrigo

JUNE 5, 2023

Banking reports to inform risk management and strategy These reports on capital, growth, and liquidity help financial institutions spot warning signs. They help manage and shape strategy in volatile economic and industry conditions. Regulators review them to assess safety and soundness.

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Abrigo

MARCH 31, 2023

Risk focus Three main areas of risk from the NCUA letter The NCUA supervisory priorities emphasized the following regarding increased risk: Interest rate risk (IRR): Examiners will focus on key interest rate risk management and control activities, including reasonable and well-documented assumptions and data sets.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2019

That’s only if analysis of that data can be done correctly, however. Automated risk management solutions can be helpful in theory. The lack of knowledge, training and clear policy can expose an organization to more risks, considering the changing nature of global regulations and threats.

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Abrigo

AUGUST 26, 2024

These best practices for identifying risks in CECL models are based on information gathered via client interactions, auditors and regulators, and our work with other industry players during the CECL “learning curve.” Understanding factors that generate uncertainty in the allowance estimate is crucial for assessing CECL model risk.

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Jeff For Banks

MARCH 8, 2014

As financial institutions’ commercial credit portfolios have expanded in recent quarters, regulators have increasingly warned against growing so quickly that risk management standards and processes fall behind. Ensure adequate documentation is obtained for ongoing credit-risk monitoring.

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Perficient

AUGUST 3, 2023

Highly regulated industries, such as the financial services industry, are especially interested in generative AI’s capabilities surrounding how it can support ever-transient regulatory and data governance demands. Using generative AI for such purposes gives human resources more bandwidth to thoroughly investigate suspicious incidents.

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