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The resilience of small businesses: Insights for lenders

Abrigo

This article covers these key topics: Debt-service coverage ratios are steady. Businesses' working capital cycles are longer. Thousands of banks, credit unions, and accounting firms use our risk management and lending solutions, contributing to this cooperative data model for banking intelligence. Nearly all U.S.

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Model Risk Management: Regulatory Priorities and Best Practices

Abrigo

Meet Model Risk Management Expectations Updates to the FDIC Risk Management Manual should steer institutions toward a model that manages risk and drives growth. Would you like other articles like this in your inbox? Model Risk Management in the spotlight. FDIC Update.

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Effective model risk management and model validation in banking

Abrigo

Best practices for assessing models and managing risk Sound model development, implementation, use, and validation is especially important as CECL models debut. . Would you like other articles like this in your inbox? What are model risk management and model validation? Model governance overview. Federal guidance.

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Silicon Valley Bank Failure – Lessons in Interest Rate Risk Management

South State Correspondent

While we will cover the general lessons HERE , in this article, we wanted to focus on the root cause – how and why interest rate risk caused the second-largest bank failure in US history (Washington Mutual was the largest in 2008). That combination made their liabilities very sensitive to safety.

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Writing Effective Credit Memos Efficiently

Abrigo

The lender needs to put forth an accurate and complete picture of the borrowernot only for the borrowers sake, but also for the financial institutions risk management. Focus on relevant repayment and credit risk information Whats relevant in a credit memo? But they shouldnt be an exercise in verbosity or regulatory appeasement.

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Small business loan processing: Automate back-office tasks

Abrigo

This article covers these key topics: Cultivating fertile ground for small business lending Do large lenders have an advantage in small business lending? But these businessesoften the backbone of their communitiesdepend on access to capital. They often must consult paper files as well as information housed in separate digital systems.

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Zero-day options and financial market vulnerability

BankUnderground

Figure 1: Total S&P 500 options trading volume by Time to Expiry (2016 to August 2023) Source: CBOE article: The Evolution of Same Day Options Trading , 3 August 2023. Potential deficiencies in the current margining system, and the inability of risk management infrastructure to keep pace with new market developments.

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