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Member business lending: How to leverage MBL for credit union growth

Abrigo

Register Takeaway 1 Credit unions developing or tightening up an existing MBL strategy should start by engaging the board of directors to outline goals. In this blog post, we will delve into the strategies and policies credit unions can adopt to ensure the success and profitability of their MBL programs. Takeaway 2 Start slow.

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Supervisor focus: Credit risk management, stress testing

Abrigo

Monitoring credit risk management, interest rate risk and banks’ ability to stress test loans affected by low oil prices are among the priorities for supervisors at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) these days, according to the agency’s recent mid-year status report on its operating plan.

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How Federal Debt May Impact Banking

South State Correspondent

Secular changes occur over many business cycles, tend to be slow-moving, and are more difficult to manage with business strategy. Furthermore, high federal government debt does not just lead to higher interest rates but also poses economic, national security, and social challenges.

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Interest Rate Risk and Your Fixed-to-Floating Rate Mix

South State Correspondent

With short-term interest rates expected to rise through 2022, many community banks are reconsidering their ALCO strategies. In 2022, national banks are especially active in managing interest rate risk by booking floating rate loans and mandating that borrowers fix their rates through a loan hedging program.

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Safeguarding new banking products from fraud

Abrigo

Takeaway 2 Examiners' focus is on risk management related to products and services , especially those involving complex technologies like AI. First, they must evaluate whether their institution is prepared to insert AML risk management procedures into the transaction process to match the speed FedNow can offer.

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AI and generative AI use cases in banking: 6 real-world examples

Abrigo

Seeing generative AI use cases can help bankers, risk managers, and financial crime professionals better understand it. They can more easily consider how to harness genAI's power to enhance their operations, compliance, risk management, and member or customer experience.

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Risk Management and Your Retirement Savings Plan

PopularBank

By investing for retirement through your employer-sponsored plan, you are helping to manage a critically important financial risk: the chance that you will outlive your money. But choosing to participate is just one step in your financial risk management strategy. Market risk. Interest rate risk.