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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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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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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. based organization, using the same platform to securely make and reconcile payments. At Kyriba we see technology as an enabler.

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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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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. Wirecard employed an unconventional measure in which it used third-party partners to process payments in countries where it wasn’t licensed.

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Strategies for growing commercial loans

Abrigo

Participation loans were given a bad name after the financial crisis of 2008, but with the proper due diligence, banks and credit unions can leverage them to help grow their loan portfolios, Newberry said. 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.

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