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Model Risk Management: Regulatory Priorities and Best Practices

Abrigo

Meet Model Risk Management Expectations Updates to the FDIC Risk Management Manual should steer institutions toward a model that manages risk and drives growth. Takeaway 1 Aside from meeting examiner expectations, proper model risk management can protect your institution from unnecessary risk. .

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Interest rate risk management in a rising rate environment

Abrigo

If an institution wasn’t fully prepared, however, it can nevertheless meet its goals using tailored asset/liability management (ALM) strategies. Balance sheet management Rising rates and overnight borrowing Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has increased the Federal Funds Target Rate from 0-0.25% to now 4.50-4.75%

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A new era of technology enabled financial risk management (Part 1)

Insights on Business

Risk brings rewards. Risk management professionals are comfortable with ideas about growth curves and early versus late investment. Of course, a key benefit of technology adoption is transformation. Explore all these topics in the IBM white paper, “ A new era of technology-enabled financial risk management.”

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Loan review – A crucial component of risk management

Abrigo

To ensure that underwriting and portfolio management satisfy regulatory expectations as well as industry best practices 2. To provide bank management and the board with an objective assessment of credit quality and ongoing portfolio management 3. The whitepaper defines the four purposes of loan review: 1.

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Quantum computing finds a home in risk management

Insights on Business

Quantum theory has been proved and led to significant advancements in many scientific fields – quantum electrodynamics, quantum chromodynamics, quantum gravity, quantum optics, quantum chemistry and of course, yes, you guessed it, quantum computing. But what has this got to do with risk management I hear you ask?

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

Jeff For Banks

In the markets, we watched helplessly as real GDP plummeted -5% in 1Q20 and -31% in 2Q20 before rebounding by +33% in 3Q20. I’ve previously theorized that China would try to reclaim its global market share lost during the pandemic by flooding the markets with cheaper goods. This development could give us good news on inflation.

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CRE loan distress: Spot the symptoms, diagnose, and treat problem loans

Abrigo

No, it’s the current situation in the commercial real estate (CRE) market tied to the threat that distressed and problem CRE loans pose to investors, banks and credit unions, and the economy at large. Individuals and business owners are starting to contemplate the worst-case scenario and how it can impact their earnings and balance sheet.

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