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What Banks Can Learn from the Republic Bank Failure

South State Correspondent

A slew of articles have been published explaining the reason for this bank’s failure. Not The Root Causes We think that the most disingenuous cause of the bank’s failure as cited in various articles is the “uncertain environment.” Even more stark was the bank’s securities repricing.

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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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Bank Value: Here is a Better Way to Calculate and Manage

South State Correspondent

This article examines why the standard way to value a bank is flawed and how to have a better methodology. Banks often don’t know who their most profitable customers are, and if they do, they ignore the basics of targeting those customers and prospects with marketing, sales, and product management.

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Managing Stagflation Credit Risk in Banking – Part III

South State Correspondent

In this article, we analyze why 75% LTV may not protect banks from credit risk on commercial loans and why there is only one source of loan repayment. . Many bankers responded that their loan-to-values (LTVs) are low and expect that the secondary source of repayment will protect the bank’s capital. Background.

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Go Where No Operations Department Has Gone Before – Instant Settlement

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The front office is screaming down to the Settlement Office, “Operations, we need more capital!” Any operations team that has dealt with a stock loan trading desk can contest the inherent friction between providing more available securities to the desk and reliance on settlement cycles and market constraints.

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Bank Product Profitability and Productivity

South State Correspondent

In our last article ( HERE ), we highlighted the methodology around why banks should calculate and drive value through customer profitability and product profitability. We focused mainly on customer profitability and used risk-adjusted return on capital as a proxy for profitability. increase in M/B. The answer is – most likely.

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As The IoT Grows, Can It Overcome Security Problems?

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Zededa , a California-based tech firm that provides IoT device management software, said this week (Feb. It was led by “Energize Ventures and Lux Capital, each of whom invests heavily in companies, fundamentally advancing how society implements and utilizes advances in technology,” Zededa said in a statement. “The Security Upgrades?

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