Abrigo

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

ALM | 4 minute read Key Takeaways Many financial institutions view asset/liability management as a "check-the-box" regulatory exercise. An extreme focus on using ALM to manage the risk of rising rates means some FIs overlook using ALM to grow earnings and capital, putting them at risk of underperformance.

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Abrigo

MAY 8, 2015

Curry added, “We have recommended authorizing a basic set of powers that both federal savings associations and national banks can exercise, regardless of their charter, so that savings associations can change business strategies without moving to a different charter.”

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South State Correspondent

JANUARY 30, 2024

Benchmarking can help banks better optimize capital as it gives bank management a sense of what the average is for the industry. In comparison, 25% is capitalized and depreciated over three, five, or ten years, depending on the nature of the expense. How does your IT investment move you within your risk envelope?

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South State Correspondent

MARCH 14, 2024

Strategic Horizon and Capital As mentioned, the problem that bank’s often run into when it comes to strategic planning is their time horizon is too short. Risk management also needs to change. Finding your bank tied to a rural area that is decreasing in size and profitable demographics is your bigger risk.

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Abrigo

MARCH 21, 2024

Enterprise value, or the fair value of the acquired credit union, becomes the imputed “purchase price” of the transaction and acts as the baseline in the purchase price allocation exercise for goodwill determination. Enterprise value considers more than just the book value of a credit union's assets and liabilities.

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Abrigo

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Non-recourse loans While the bank historically has not experienced excessive levels of charge-offs due to loans not having one or more guarantors, there is considerable evidence to show that the options available to resolve a problem situation, as well as the costs incurred to exercise such options, are adversely affected by the lack of guarantees.

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South State Correspondent

AUGUST 21, 2022

Lending Discipline: Hedging programs make loan pricing more transparent and force bankers to exercise sensible pricing methodologies. This capital ratio is used to assess the possible riskiness of a hedge provider.

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BankUnderground

JANUARY 12, 2023

This in turn means greater risk of ‘debt deleveraging’ by heavily indebted households and firms, who may be forced to reduce their spending in order to meet their debt obligations, potentially amplifying any recessionary effects. However, this effect is small in our model given the size of banks’ capital buffers.

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Abrigo

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Stress testing gives an institution a serious look into their capital and reserves, and if they possess enough of each to remain viable, should a recession hit. Both CECL and stress testing take top-down and bottom-up approaches to test the capital adequacy of a financial institution.

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BankUnderground

APRIL 8, 2021

Without adequate mitigation, such events may result in claims handling strain and capital risk for insurers. That raises a challenge for insurers: should they have adequate risk mitigation measures in place for periods that are both windy and wet? How does the windstorm – inland flood correlation impact insurers’ capital?

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South State Correspondent

MARCH 15, 2023

It turns out that confidence is more valuable than capital. While we wrote about the root cause of the failure of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) HERE , the lessons of the current banking crisis go beyond interest rate risk management. The ratio would provide a bank’s current core capital position to risk-adjusted assets.

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BankUnderground

APRIL 13, 2023

By better modelling how this relationship might raise insurers’ capital risk we can more firmly argue that insurers’ model assumptions should account for key dependencies between perils. Taking whole years, we investigated how the level of capital required to remain solvent is affected. Outputs are shown in Table A.

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South State Correspondent

APRIL 3, 2023

Failing to understand and account for these options can lead to ineffective modeling and risk management. Further, the bank, and customer, have other, non-interest rate reasons for exercising their option, most notably safety. We are in a period of very high volatility, and the full impact of this optionality may not be correct.

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Independent Banker

APRIL 30, 2022

For this and other reasons, now is a good time to review and refresh articles, bylaws and committee charters to ensure resilience and bolster risk management. But if they see it as a risk management tool, it’s a game changer. He also recommends not updating the resiliency document as only a “table-top exercise.”

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Gonzobanker

MAY 8, 2020

25% 140 banks will have capital levels that have fallen below 8%. So far, bankers have taken comfort in the soundbite that “this crisis is different” because of the strong capital levels and risk management rigor that has developed since the Great Recession. Benchmark every function and drive excellence.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

It’s been nearly a decade since the financial crisis exposed how a weak risk management framework and lack of governance can almost permanently debilitate even one of the strongest capital markets. Regulators are exercising their new oversight by increasing the costs of non-compliance.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Instead of going to the gym, they’re climbing on their Peloton bikes or exercising in front of their Magic Mirrors with trainers and others who are part of those digital fitness communities. And instead of investing in tickets to go to a game, they’re investing in smart flat-screen TVs to watch live sporting events at home with friends.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 1, 2020

Instead of going to the gym, they’re climbing on their Peloton bikes or exercising in front of their Magic Mirrors with trainers and others who are part of those digital fitness communities. And instead of investing in tickets to go to a game, they’re investing in smart flat-screen TVs to watch live sporting events at home with friends.

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FICO

MAY 18, 2020

Organisations are being permitted to use their capital buffer to help in the current situation. Organisations need to be agile to incorporate the changes and they will need to revisit their models to rate the real risk. Management are reminded that the current very fluid situation is hindering reliable forecasts.

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FICO

MARCH 25, 2020

There have been significant numbers of forbearance requests from customers, and C&R teams will need to exercise discipline regarding when and how forbearance is provided. For example, BaFIN (the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority in Germany) is offering some freedom in their assessment of capital requirements.

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Lex Sokolin

DECEMBER 31, 2020

a nice, detailed set of thinking on Yearn, the most advanced tech that DeFi has to offer: Mergers and Acquisitions in open-source Decentralized Finance, and its $5 billion market capitalization. Much of this is an exercise in grim arithmetic. It’s got your yield farming and your Pickles and Creams. Slowing GDP growth by 1.5%

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Lex Sokolin

DECEMBER 31, 2020

a nice, detailed set of thinking on Yearn, the most advanced tech that DeFi has to offer: Mergers and Acquisitions in open-source Decentralized Finance, and its $5 billion market capitalization. Much of this is an exercise in grim arithmetic. It’s got your yield farming and your Pickles and Creams. Slowing GDP growth by 1.5%

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FICO

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

The most popular posts in our Customer Development category dealt with digital banking, optimizing credit line increases, loan pricing and machine learning for credit risk models. With this approach, loan pricing is not an isolated exercise. Instead, loan prices are optimized within the context of the entire customer offer.

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Gonzobanker

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

More importantly, no one is going to spend political capital to move mountains in Washington over a possible problem. The fraudulent activity of several Wells Fargo employees is a sobering reminder that governance and risk management shouldn’t simply be “check the box” exercises.

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Gonzobanker

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

More importantly, no one is going to spend political capital to move mountains in Washington over a possible problem. The fraudulent activity of several Wells Fargo employees is a sobering reminder that governance and risk management shouldn’t simply be “check the box” exercises.

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South State Correspondent

JULY 29, 2024

As federal borrowings increase, those borrowings crowd out (reduce) capital available for private investments. A smaller supply (of private capital) increases required return on capital and interest rates. Further, orthodox economic understanding is that as federal debt grows, general interest rates in the economy rise.

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