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Top 6 Trends for the Banking Industry in 2024

Perficient

This blog was co-authored by Perficient’s Chief Strategist and banking expert: Scott Albahary A slowing global economy, coupled with a divergent economic landscape, poses challenges for the banking industry in 2024. Facilitation of embedded lending while ensuring compliance: Embedded finance initiatives must adhere to regulatory requirements.

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Change management in banks and credit unions: A key to success

Abrigo

Why change management is vital for banks and credit unions Regulators promote change management to manage risk, but banks and credit unions can also achieve important benefits when they manage change. This article describes recent comments by financial regulators about managing change.

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How To Let Borrowers Choose the Wrong Loan Structure

South State Correspondent

For example, at the start of 2024 the market expected six interest rate cuts, while at the time of writing this article the market expects only 2.6 cuts in 2024 (65 bps) and the borrowing rate should already reflect this in the inverted yield curve. NOCRE is already scrutinized by bank regulators.

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Credit administration department housekeeping: Practical steps for improvement

Abrigo

It's about ensuring that every aspect of your lending operation is optimized for efficiency and effectiveness. Whether it's at the start of a year or some other time, focusing on these key areas will help you fine-tune your operations and set your financial institution up for success in the year ahead.

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Best practices for credit risk management in uncertain times

Abrigo

Takeaway 3 Utilize regulatory guidance to understand regulators' expectations, which are likely to include consistent stress testing. They are having to outsource a lot and increase their operating expenses without any offsetting revenue and while dealing with supply chain issues.” Get to know regulator expectations and priorities.

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Risk of Derivatives – The Fall of an Index

South State Correspondent

Bloomberg recently announced that it will shut down its BSBY index on November 15, 2024. BSBY was not well received by US regulators from its inception, but the market eventually embraced SOFR over BSBY. Unfortunately, some banks adopted BSBY as one of their preferred indexes and in doing so created risk in derivatives and operations.

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If You Are Tired of Being Transactional, You Need A Hedge Program

South State Correspondent

Loan-level hedging has become an important tool that many community banks have started to adopt in 2024. Lending Discipline : Sensible pricing methodology is part of a loan hedging program, and some hedge providers also offer a loan pricing model. Community banks do this profitably by turning transactional accounts into relationships.