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The Velocity of Risk – What Bankers Need To Know

South State Correspondent

Banks that are looking to enhance their risk management practices should consider incorporating the concept of the velocity of risk into their enterprise-wide risk management practices. Some risks occur slowly; others strike quickly and hard. Optimizing Risk. Consider the risk above.

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Remembering 9/11 – A Pivotal Day for BSA/AML Professionals

Abrigo

Would you like other articles like this in your inbox? BSA was intended to detect illicit activity through cash and monetary instruments to catch tax evaders using secret foreign bank accounts. October 26 is now nationally recognized as BSA/AML Day.) September 11, 2001 will stay with Americans forever.

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How to increase efficiency and minimize risk in the audit process using analytics

Abrigo

Since leaving public accounting, she has been an internal auditor, a tax preparer and a controller. AI will not replace your job, or your need to be vigilant in risk mitigation. While they don’t replace sound judgement, tech-enabled analytics can remove doubt in risk management.

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The Current Banking Crisis – 10 Not So Apparent Lessons

South State Correspondent

While we wrote about the root cause of the failure of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) HERE , the lessons of the current banking crisis go beyond interest rate risk management. While interest rate risk caused the most significant impact on value, several other factors contributed to the terminality of each bank that was closed.

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Guest Post: Financial Markets and Economic Update - First Quarter 2024

Jeff For Banks

Our lives changed forever from this whole experience of the government’s declaration of a national emergency, leading to forced shutdowns of businesses and schools, mandated mask wearing, forcing 6-foot distances between people, travel restrictions, fear mongering with case and death counts, and forced vaccines/boosters. Real GDP was +3.2%

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Personal Finance: Lessons For Young Adults

BankBazaar

Our nation is home to almost 17.5% As a nation, we are yet to prioritise financial literacy. Financial literacy is a broad term, but in simple terms, it can be defined as understanding basic financial concepts such as income, expenses, budgeting, savings, insurance, investments, taxes, risk management, assets and liabilities.

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What's With Regulator Agita Over Bank Commercial Real Estate Lending?

Jeff For Banks

Both institutions were over the CRE concentration guidelines, so putting them together would exasperate this risk, so the regulatory thinking must have been. Today, I read an American Banker article on how a multi-billion dollar bank is going to ramp up its business lending. Risk mitigants tend to lag growth, especially fast growth.

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