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Should You Be Marking Loans To Market?

South State Correspondent

Available-for-sale securities are reported at fair value, and any unrealized gains and losses are included in accumulated other comprehensive income (AOCI) in the equity section of the balance sheet. The AOCI is an accounting adjustment meant to reflect the economic value of assets and is the process of “marking loans to market.”

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Bracing Mid-Market Firms For Financing Volatility

PYMNTS

In many ways, it was great news for small businesses, whose owners sought ways to obtain a loan in the same digital-native ways they sought financing as individuals, and needed more options as traditional lenders pulled back from the SMB market. Finding the right loan product is only part of the middle-market borrowing puzzle.

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Measuring capital at risk in the UK banking sector

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The probability of an extreme stress event with losses above £91 billion (roughly 19% of CET1 capital) increased from 1% before the pandemic to 4.1% Measuring capital at risk. We derive two forward-looking measures of solvency risk (one year ahead) – a capital at risk measure (CAR) and a conditional capital at risk measure (CCAR).

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Amid Push To Open China’s Financial Markets, Some Banks May Hesitate

PYMNTS

Put a different way: If you open a country’s financial markets, will the (foreign) banks bring the capital? News came last week that China offered up plans to let outside investors into its markets — allowing for stakes big enough to take control of that country’s financial companies.

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Silicon Valley Bank Failure – Lessons in Interest Rate Risk Management

South State Correspondent

While we will cover the general lessons HERE , in this article, we wanted to focus on the root cause – how and why interest rate risk caused the second-largest bank failure in US history (Washington Mutual was the largest in 2008). Equally important is the bank’s securities duration, as shown in the graph below.

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China Eyes Open Markets, Wide Shut

PYMNTS

On the face of it, China’s announcement that it would open its financial markets to increased ownership by foreign companies seems a sea change. Or to put it another way, with valuations stretched across bourses and asset classes outside China, wouldn’t it follow that there would be a rush into this new open market?

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Ex-Barclays Head: Qatar Capital Was Not Vital To Bank’s Health

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19), the former chairman of Barclays bank said that Qatar was “not as central” to the bank’s plans to fundraise billions in 2008, according to a report in the Financial Times. He said the bank needed to raise money and “did not want to be behind the game” while the “level of uncertainty in the market intensified.”.

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