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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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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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Treasury And Risk Management, Clearly, In The Clouds

PYMNTS

Fundamentally, our approach to innovation is to deliver accurate and absolute visibility into an organization’s liquidity and provide the ability to securely deploy cash anywhere in the world. A: A payment is a payment — but the automation and control of how you manage and protect your payments is largely underestimated.

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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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Strategies for growing commercial loans

Abrigo

Retention strategies like matching rates or terms and proactively managing customers can effectively keep customers at your institution, and, in some cases, help to grow their commercial loans with you. Risk management. Keys to mitigating risk. Credit Risk Management. Lending & Credit Risk.

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Treasurers Trust Big Data For Real-Time Risk Assessment

PYMNTS

Risk management is complex territory for many businesses, especially those with complex partnerships, vast supply chains and global footprints. For fund investors, active risk management is of particular importance for treasurers, Hazeltree noted. One is in assessing counterparty strength.

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