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CRE risk management: Identify and manage concentration risk

Abrigo

Find commercial real estate risks in the loan portfolio Sound risk management practices in commercial real estate lending help lenders manage CRE credit losses and protect the portfolio's profitability. You might also like this podcast, "How to sleep easier at night about your capital and risk levels."

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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). More importantly, the bank’s held-to-maturity (HTM) securities portfolio was $91.3B

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SVB, Fed guilty of poor management

BankInovation

Silicon Valley Bank and federal regulators alike let poor management slide for several years — leading to the largest banking failure since 2008. SVB lacked board effectiveness, risk management and internal audits within its operations, and had 31 outstanding supervisory warnings when the bank collapsed in March.

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Best Practices for Managing Credit Risk in Recession

Abrigo

Key Takeaways This recession is significantly different than the 2008 financial crisis, creating a unique credit environment for financial institutions. Economic downturns alter the credit memo's content and process to capture credit risk. Loan grading is another pillar of managing credit risk that should be evaluated frequently.

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Treasury And Risk Management, Clearly, In The Clouds

PYMNTS

In our CAB meetings, we focus on innovating solutions that can help eliminate regulatory and market challenges and plan for surprises, such as the financial crisis of 2008 or the recent political and currency volatility that we’re experiencing around the world today. Since then, we’ve pushed the entire market to demand TMS delivered via SaaS.

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Lessons Learned From the Fourth United States Bank Failure of 2023

Perficient

He was promoted to President and CEO in 2008. Many of Perficient’s clients are now proactively utilizing a Risk and Control Self-Assessment (RCSA) approach to ensure their firms utilize an ounce of prevention to avoid a pound of regulatory cure, and avoid becoming headlines in the Wall Street Journal.

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EY Accused Of Missing Alleged Wirecard Fraud

PYMNTS

Wirecard explained that the money was kept that way for risk management, saying it could be saved to provide refunds or chargebacks if needed. WSJ reported on one instance in which an EY senior manager left a note for a Wirecard executive saying EY was preparing to ask questions about a trustee account.

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