CFPB Monitor

AUGUST 31, 2021

The OCC, FDIC, and Federal Reserve Board have issued a guide that is intended to assist community banks in conducting due diligence when considering relationships with financial technology (fintech) companies (Guide). Risk management policies, processes, and controls. Legal and regulatory compliance.

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South State Correspondent

APRIL 23, 2023

The root cause of Silicon Valley Bank’s (SVB) failure is poor risk management – plain and simple. Bankers need to understand and manage their business on the fair value of assets and liabilities instead of managing their business on net interest margin and the amortized historical cost of assets and liabilities.

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Abrigo

JUNE 11, 2021

Measuring Interest Rate Risk Can Vary by Institution Interest rate risk measurement plays a key role in ensuring an institution's safety and soundness. Would you like other articles on asset/liability management in your inbox? FDIC) noted in its 2021 Risk Review. FDIC) noted in its 2021 Risk Review.

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Abrigo

APRIL 7, 2023

Additionally, the process of translating all this information into a persuasive business case is often a new or unfamiliar endeavor for a Loan Review Manager. At Abrigo, we understand how difficult this process can be. However, many clients evaluated an internally developed system before ultimately acquiring loan review automation.

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Gonzobanker

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Early adopters are earning prestige while investors and a hoard of community banks explore the opportunity to tap into this new source of revenue. infrastructure and the capacity to manage a BaaS strategy to significantly complement the core business. Now is the time to create a BaaS strategy.

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 2, 2021

But impulse buying – whether at home or in business – can result in waste, so think carefully about areas of your bank or credit union that could benefit next year from a small investment as 2021 draws to a close. Indeed, deposit levels to transaction accounts among community banks exploded 74% to $896.5 Credit Risk Management.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

When it comes to supporting outliers in the Las Vegas community, Lexicon Bank knows how to play its cards. Lexicon Bank didn’t wait long to make a splash, sponsoring the 2021 World Series of Poker. But as a community bank that is there to serve the gaming hub of Las Vegas, Lexicon Bank welcomes these players with open arms.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 1, 2022

AmTrust recently worked with one community bank client that was the target of a ransomware attack that shut down its branches for two weeks. One of the biggest benefits of a cyber policy, especially for a smaller community bank, is access to experts,” says Gentile. Regulators paying closer attention to cyber risks.

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Gonzobanker

JULY 10, 2020

In a recent Fortune survey, 55% of corporate executives said they expect to return to 2019 capital spending levels sometime in 2021. Community-based institutions have unique circumstances (and personal viewpoints) that impact how they see the world in the future and what planning will look like for them. Risk Management.

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Abrigo

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

See Part I: Implications for Community Financial Institutions. The importantance of the BSA tole came to be paramount to the entrie risk management program and included as part of the federal safety and soundness examinations. Stay up-to-date on the latest FinCEN Priorities. Criminalizing Terroism Financing.

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Abrigo

JULY 20, 2021

Even if community businesses don’t end up utilizing the federally guaranteed loans , many small businesses have heard of SBA loans and want to explore them. During Abrigo’s recent ThinkBIG Conference, credit underwriting and loan portfolio risk management trainer and consultant Michael Wear , CRC , of 39 Acres Corp.

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Abrigo

JULY 20, 2021

Even if community businesses don’t end up utilizing the federally guaranteed loans , many small businesses have heard of SBA loans and want to explore them. During Abrigo’s recent ThinkBIG Conference, credit underwriting and loan portfolio risk management trainer and consultant Michael Wear , CRC , of 39 Acres Corp.

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Abrigo

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

However, both of those approaches could hurt bank returns and potentially increase risk for the institution. Another option is to make small business lending more efficient and borrower-friendly so that the financial institution can win, process, and manage more loans without big increases in staffing or other expenses. Learn More.

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Abrigo

JULY 21, 2021

In June 2021, the White House released the first rendering of the National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism 1 , a strong indicator that it is time for us all to be paying closer attention to this matter. See Part I: Implications for Community Financial Institutions. Stay up-to-date on the latest FinCEN priorities.

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Abrigo

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

They are routinely experiencing processes that add costs, delay turnaround times, and can lead to inconsistency in pricing and risk management. Many community bankers expect a recession will start by at least mid-2021, according to the most recent Community Bank Sentiment Index.

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Abrigo

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The flow of approvals is good news for community financial institutions that have been working since late March to provide $525 billion in funding to U.S. Community financial institutions with less than $10 billion in assets had provided nearly half of all PPP funding by the time the program closed Aug. Lending & Credit Risk.

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South State Correspondent

JANUARY 4, 2023

Popular projects for 2023 include online loan and deposit onboarding utilizing third-party data to speed the process, compliance-as-a-service, payments, card controls, service case management, leveraging data for customer insights, and providing open banking APIs to customers. Sectors like office, retail, and hospitality, are even worse.

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CFPB Monitor

APRIL 1, 2021

Comments on the RFI must be received by June 1, 2021. Augmenting risk management and control practices. The agencies observe that the potential risks associated with using AI are not unique to AI, such as creating operational vulnerabilities and consumer protection risks (fair lending, UDAAP, privacy).

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Gonzobanker

JULY 6, 2021

It has become crystal clear that digital transformation is now the largest technology initiative for regional and community financial institutions. Maybe this is the new reality for community bankers, but Cornerstone Advisors is seeing little evidence that they’re serious about implementing a comprehensive digital strategy.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 1, 2022

But as the prevalence of security breaches grows, so do the opportunities for community banks to position themselves as guardians of their customers’ personal data through compliance, technology and relationship building. By Katie Kuehner-Hebert. Data privacy and security is a hot topic and is only getting hotter. Bob Hickok.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Banks and credit unions had to fundamentally change their delivery, support and relationship management models at scopes and speeds that were unheard of. And how did community banks and credit unions respond to the COVID craziness? Expect more cost-driven MOEs in 2021! Everything. Bad things about the banking industry.

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FICO

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

from November 2021 to November 2022) and the unemployment rate is expected to rise to 4.6% For example, the average interest rate on credit cards accruing interest in Q4 2022 was 20.40% compared to 16.44% in Q4 2021 (Source: Federal Reserve G.19 compared to December 2021 with average monthly spend staying flat.

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Jeff For Banks

MARCH 5, 2022

in real final sales, which is very weak compared to +8% to +9% in the first two quarters of 2021. 3% in January, which was the first monthly decline since the beginning of 2021. in the fourth quarter of 2021. GDP for all of 2021 was +5.7%, following a year of decline in 2020 of -3.4% The CPI started 2021 at +1.4%

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Jeff For Banks

JUNE 2, 2023

To you, manage your interest rate risk. Before becoming desperate and trading interest rate risk for credit risk. Although community banks did not lend to sub-prime borrowers in any meaningful way, did we participate? Most of the more than 500 financial institutions that failed were community banks.

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Abrigo

OCTOBER 9, 2019

In a recent survey by the National Association for Business Economics, 74% of economists who responded expect a recession by the end of 2021. Regulatory communities and auditors want to see that CECL and stress testing remain as consistent as possible across the organization. According to economists, a recession is looming.

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FICO

JUNE 7, 2022

Previously, these were published on the FICO Community, but going forward they will be published on the FICO.com blog. These credit card performance figures represent a national sample of approximately 38 million consumer accounts from FICO client reports generated by the FICO® TRIAD® Customer Manager and Adaptive Control System solutions.

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Abrigo

MARCH 24, 2021

Takeaway 1 Financial institutions that invested in technology in 2020 are using it to increase the loan portfolio in 2021. Growing loans, earnings are banks' top challenges in 2021. The top banking challenges in 2021 are growing loans and earnings, according to Independent Banker’s recent 2021 Community Bank CEO Outlook survey.

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Abrigo

APRIL 22, 2024

Small business lending is also a prominent line of business for many financial institutions, especially those driven by a mission to help their communities thrive. While small business loans inherently benefit business owners, they also benefit communities, according to 2021 research for the SBA. economic ecosystem.

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Jeff For Banks

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

It was the massive increase in M2 in 2020 and 2021 (and beyond!) Jaworski 10/28/23 Dorothy Jaworski has worked at large and small banks for over 30 years; much of that time has been spent in investment portfolio management, risk management, and financial analysis. M2 is falling. Inflation is responding by falling.

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Jeff For Banks

MARCH 21, 2024

No one will forget the inflation that followed in 2021 to 2023, started first by supply chain issues, but then fueled by the Fed’s purchases and the obscene amount of cash handed out by the federal government. Dorothy recently retired from Penn Community Bank where she worked since 2004. M2 growth was out of control at over 20%.

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Banking Exchange

JANUARY 24, 2022

Over three quarters of community banks did not close a single branch, Wipfli survey reveals Community Banking Feature3 Feature Risk Management Branch Technology/ATMs Financial Research Payments.

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Abrigo

JANUARY 22, 2024

Takeaway 2 Examiners' focus is on risk management related to products and services , especially those involving complex technologies like AI. First, they must evaluate whether their institution is prepared to insert AML risk management procedures into the transaction process to match the speed FedNow can offer.

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Jeff For Banks

MAY 4, 2020

Readers note: You can also view this post on Penn Community Bank's website. I had believed that we would continue the expansion into 2021, but that will not happen. Dorothy has been with Penn Community Bank and its predecessor since November, 2004. Click here. Coronavirus Pandemic Life as we know it changed in March, 2020.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Money supply, as measured by M2, was growing in 2020 by over 20% year-over-year and in 2021 by 12% to 20% due to the Fed injecting liquidity through its bond buying program of $100 billion per month and the federal government passing continued Covid-19 relief bills, placing trillions of dollars into the economy.

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Abrigo

MARCH 17, 2022

However, community financial institutions can incorporate the new scenarios for their own stress tests to help determine how their capital levels will fare in severe economic situations. Prudent stress testing as a risk management tool helps the enterprise see where the potential pitfalls are in their plans.

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Lex Sokolin

DECEMBER 31, 2020

and try to answer with the word “community”. Wirecard’s collapse hurts Fintech & Crypto start-ups, like Lehman and Enron burned the economy and HSBC to fire 35,000; E*TRADE sells to Morgan Stanley for $13B; Legg Mason’s $800B of managed assets bought for $4.5B. The multiverse is interesting because of its communities.

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Lex Sokolin

DECEMBER 31, 2020

and try to answer with the word “community”. Wirecard’s collapse hurts Fintech & Crypto start-ups, like Lehman and Enron burned the economy and HSBC to fire 35,000; E*TRADE sells to Morgan Stanley for $13B; Legg Mason’s $800B of managed assets bought for $4.5B. The multiverse is interesting because of its communities.

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