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Bank Capital Planning: 2015 Style

South State Correspondent

Now that the economy has healed, liquidity is plentiful and bank performance is on the verge of getting back to normal, we thought we would revisit what a bank’s capital structure looks like and the associated loss given defaults for each.

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U.S. Regulations to Consider When Managing a Cryptocurrency Fund

Perficient

However, in this blog, we will discuss the regulatory landscape surrounding cryptocurrency from an asset manager or fund manager perspective. New York’s BitLicense requirement therefore applies to investment managers who issue digital coins or otherwise act as an exchange platform regardless of where the buyers are located.

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Preparing your financial institution to manage loan workouts, loan modifications

Abrigo

Managing loan workouts and modifications Tips for preparing your bank or credit union to handle an increased volume of problem loans while ensuring prudent credit risk management. Takeaway 2 Meanwhile, banks and credit unions will likely see a beefed-up regulatory emphasis on credit risk management practices, especially tied to CRE. .

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Best practices for credit risk management in uncertain times

Abrigo

Fortify your credit risk management framework How to prepare your organization for scrutiny of its credit risk management practices during your next exam or review. . You might also like this whitepaper, "Stress Testing: Managing Capital Levels and Credit Risk." Digitize processes. keep me informed. Know your limits.

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CFPB sues debt collectors and debt buyers for alleged violations of CFPA, FDCPA, and 2015 consent order

CFPB Monitor

Almost five years after entering into an administrative consent order with Encore Capital Group, Inc., Midland Funding, LLC, Midland Credit Management, Inc., and Asset Acceptance Capital Corp. failed to process payments by accepted means so as to avoid the assessment of fees to consumers.

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Defending the bank's capital levels

Abrigo

The Recession and its subsequent rate of bank failures underscore the need for banks of all sizes to invest in developing a capital plan. The Recession taught many institutions that whatever processes had been in place for managing capital were not sufficient. The result was insufficient capital. Forward-looking review 4.

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What 2015 holds for banking

Abrigo

The IBM Institute for Business Value released its 2015 report, “ The paradox of Banking ”, which analyzes the existing market and makes predictions about how the landscape will evolve, what will make banks succeed or fail and how institutions can use the market trends to their advantage.