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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. You might also like this webinar series, "Tackling common credit risk questions during challenging times." Are there many regulatory requirements?

Analysis 195
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Solve This Problem with Your Strategic Horizon

South State Correspondent

Strategic Horizon and Capital As mentioned, the problem that bank’s often run into when it comes to strategic planning is their time horizon is too short. Risk management also needs to change. Finding your bank tied to a rural area that is decreasing in size and profitable demographics is your bigger risk.

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The value of fair value: Credit union merger accounting requires a strong partner

Abrigo

Takeaway 2 Enterprise value goes beyond book value to include earning potential, market position, and intangible assets. Enterprise value, or the fair value of the acquired credit union, becomes the imputed “purchase price” of the transaction and acts as the baseline in the purchase price allocation exercise for goodwill determination.

Lending 221
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How the 2022 Stress Test Scenarios Can Help Small Banks & Credit Unions

Abrigo

Takeaway 2 The severely adverse scenario from regulators presents a very severe global recession combined with severe stress in the CRE market and the corporate debt market. Prudent stress testing as a risk management tool helps the enterprise see where the potential pitfalls are in their plans. Related Subhead.

Capital 195
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Bank IT Spending – Use These Metrics to Improve Performance

South State Correspondent

Marketing and technology (IT) are two budgets that have taken the most significant hit. Benchmarking can help banks better optimize capital as it gives bank management a sense of what the average is for the industry. In 2022, banks spent about 34% of their budget on human capital; 2024 should see that number get close to 38%.

Capital 195
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The Risk Your Asset/Liability Management Process Might Be Missing

Abrigo

ALM | 4 minute read Key Takeaways Many financial institutions view asset/liability management as a "check-the-box" regulatory exercise. An extreme focus on using ALM to manage the risk of rising rates means some FIs overlook using ALM to grow earnings and capital, putting them at risk of underperformance.

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Food for Thought: A Policy on Credit Exceptions

Abrigo

Non-recourse loans While the bank historically has not experienced excessive levels of charge-offs due to loans not having one or more guarantors, there is considerable evidence to show that the options available to resolve a problem situation, as well as the costs incurred to exercise such options, are adversely affected by the lack of guarantees.

Policies 195