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3 Key Takeaways from XLoD 2024

Perficient

During the discussion, several risk executives explained their bank used to develop RCSA goals annually, which had become a routine exercise. This more frequent approach provided significant value to the bank’s RCSA program, transforming it from a tick-the-box exercise into a meaningful practice. Many hands rose immediately.

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How Stress Test Results Can Yield Better Lending, Credit, and Risk Decisions

Abrigo

Stress Testing | 7 minute read Key Takeaways Stress testing is an important component of sound risk management. Effective stress testing can benefit many different facets of lending, from risk management and strategic decision-making to capital adequacy and liquidity management.

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Examining industries: The importance of industry analysis for financial institutions

Abrigo

How industry analysis can improve your credit risk management Understanding your customers' businesses leads to better loan pricing, structure, and risk management. You might also like this webinar series, "Tackling common credit risk questions during challenging times." Get more credit risk best practices.

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The value of fair value: Credit union merger accounting requires a strong partner

Abrigo

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.

Lending 221
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Food for Thought: A Policy on Credit Exceptions

Abrigo

Finally, while there may be a distinction in the severity of risk of the credit exception, that assessment tends to be inherent in the exception itself rather than the subject of the exception (e.g., unsecured lending is bad rather than unsecured lending should only be extended to high pass risk rated credit).

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4 Reasons to review your bank’s risk rating system

Abrigo

Finally, a risk rating can help the lender determine if they will reprice or re-structure the loan when it comes time for renewal. Risk rating sets the foundation for the risk management of the entire loan portfolio. The risk rating gives the management team, board and auditors a view of trends in risk levels.

System 150
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The importance of peer benchmarking

Abrigo

As Tim McPeak, an executive risk management consultant at Sageworks, pointed out in a recent webinar , it may seem obvious, but benchmarking your bank against peers on some basic metrics is an important first step in any peer analysis. For example, the peer group may be based on geographic location or total asset sizes.

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