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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. Takeaway 2 Financial institutions should formalize existing model risk management activities to satisfy regulatory expectations.

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If You Are Tired of Being Transactional, You Need A Hedge Program

South State Correspondent

Eliminate Interest Rate Risk: Eliminate margin compression when interest rates rise. Meet Competitive Pressures : National and larger regional banks are specifically targeting better borrowers for five, seven, ten-year fixed-rate loans.

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If You Are Tired of Being Transactional, You Need A Hedge Program

South State Correspondent

Eliminate Interest Rate Risk: Eliminate margin compression when interest rates rise. Meet Competitive Pressures : National and larger regional banks are specifically targeting better borrowers for five, seven, ten-year fixed-rate loans.

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Get your ducks in a row: HVCRE risk management

Abrigo

In a recent Sageworks webinar Robert Ashbaugh, senior risk management consultant at Sageworks, discusses High Volatility Commercial Real Estate (HVCRE) lending best practices. That 13% represented 80% of the losses to the FDIC insurance fund. In other words, HVCRE is all ADC loans except for loans that meet certain criteria.

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The Difference Between a Community Bank and a Big Bank

Jeff For Banks

I recently spoke to a community group, and subsequently a community bank all-staff meeting regarding the definition of a community bank. The FDIC has defined community banks in their December 2020 Community Banking Report that either exclude or include the following criteria: Seems complicated. A pretty small asset size, in my opinion.

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How segmentation can benefit a bank’s ALLL and risk management practices

Abrigo

A segmentation strategy, though, is a great place to start to nail down an effective and efficient process – not only will it serve a substantial purpose for the ALLL, but also as a larger risk management tool. The goal is for the segmentation to be granular enough for the pools to show those similar loan characteristics.

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What Banks Can Learn from the Republic Bank Failure

South State Correspondent

With the assistance of the FDIC, Fulton Financial acquired certain assets, debt and deposits of Republic Bank. Yes, the bank liquidity ratio was below peers (10.25% vs. 15.76%), and net non-core funding dependence was well above peers (23.10% vs. 13.27%), but the bank was still liquid with sufficient cash on hand to meet depositors’ needs.