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Examining industries: The importance of industry analysis for financial institutions

Abrigo

How industry analysis can improve your credit risk management Understanding your customers' businesses leads to better loan pricing, structure, and risk management. WATCH WEBINARS Takeaway 1 All businesses perform industry analysis, but financial institutions in particular must know their customers' competitive landscape.

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Bank Credit Risk: A Risk-Return Analysis

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Each loan would earn the bank the market clearing ROA. The markets (i.e., Here, the analysis gets more interesting; bankers do not seem to make mistakes evenly above and below the line. Instead, top-performing banks focus their capital, products, and employees on relationship-building and risk avoidance.

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Capital Assessment, Capital Planning Are Critical as Coronavirus Creates Chaos

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Key Takeaways Stress tests and capital planning are vital to financial institutions in volatile times like these, when the coronavirus and pressures on the energy sector result in a financial crisis. Current environment = Challenging stressed capital planning. This has resulted in theoretical assumptions for capital planning.

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Fed Analysis Shows Banks Can Stay Strong Amid ‘Harshest Shocks’

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” The different cases presented in the analysis included a U-shaped recession and recovery, a W-shaped double-dip recession, and a V-shaped recession and recovery. According to the announcement, “the scenarios are not predictions or forecasts of the likely path of the economy or financial markets.”. percent to 19.5 percent to 7.7

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GPS Capital Markets For Sale, Sources Say

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Corporate foreign exchange brokerage GPS Capital Markets is reportedly up for sale, unnamed sources told PE Hub. GPS Capital Markets, founded by Al Manbeian and Ryan Gibbon, posts between $20 million and $30 million earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA), one source told the publication.

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Middle Market Waits For Mobile Payments In AP: Capital One

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Small businesses, while they may struggle to have the resources to invest in the tools they want, can be more agile and flexible to handle changing markets. Where does the middle market fit in this spectrum? A new report from Capital One examined this question, focusing on how technological disruption will affect its finances.

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10 Big Bank Marketing Lessons from the ABA Bank Marketing Conference

South State Correspondent

Last week, the American Banking Association (ABA) held its annual Bank Marketing Conference in Denver, receiving rave reviews. The theme was – developing your marketing superpowers. Amid the brewery networking, superhero costumes, and fun, some fantastic bank marketing lessons were had, and not just for bank marketers.