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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." Are there many regulatory requirements?

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

Abrigo

Takeaway 2 Enterprise value goes beyond book value to include earning potential, market position, and intangible assets. 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.

Lending 221
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Finding credit needles in the (market) haystack

Insights on Business

Institutions invested in a broad range of corporate debt instruments can draw business benefit from adopting an integrated view of market and credit risks. It allows these teams to blend risk factor level and bottom-up instrument info to build hedging strategies at individual issuer level, or refine broader portfolio overlay programs.

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Solve This Problem with Your Strategic Horizon

South State Correspondent

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. This type of exercise is planning, not strategic planning. While their innovation labs were cutting edge, their management was not. Do you remember them?

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Food for Thought: A Policy on Credit Exceptions

Abrigo

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.

Policies 195
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Bank IT Spending – Use These Metrics to Improve Performance

South State Correspondent

Marketing and technology (IT) are two budgets that have taken the most significant hit. Shadow IT may be in the form of a marketing platform like Canva or Grammarly to assist in writing, two of the more popular shadow expenses. As such, bank budgets have come under scrutiny. Technology-forward banks spend as much as 16.4%

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Non-Maturity Deposits – A New Machined Learned Framework For ALM

South State Correspondent

Recent bank failures hurting public perceptions, the current market trends of higher rates, Quantitative Tightening, digital banking, social media, and a flight to safety have increased the difference between model and observed liability durations. Floating-rate loans or loans that are coming up for reset have higher probabilities of default.