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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." Get more credit risk best practices.

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How Stress Test Results Can Yield Better Lending, Credit, and Risk Decisions

Abrigo

Stress Testing | 7 minute read Key Takeaways Stress testing is an important component of sound risk management. Effective stress testing can benefit many different facets of lending, from risk management and strategic decision-making to capital adequacy and liquidity management. Now that's big. Learn More.

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Food for Thought: A Policy on Credit Exceptions

Abrigo

Portfolio segments should be monitored and managed, not get buried in exception counts. Finally, while there may be a distinction in the severity of risk of the credit exception, that assessment tends to be inherent in the exception itself rather than the subject of the exception (e.g., It just stays on forever.

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

Abrigo

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. Enterprise value considers more than just the book value of a credit union's assets and liabilities.

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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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Solve This Problem with Your Strategic Horizon

South State Correspondent

This all compares to about a 40%+ return invested in improving processes (loan, branch, cash management, etc.) Bank management should, of course, strive to increase cash flow as soon as possible. Now, with customers, and relationship managers switching banks at one of the highest rates, banks need to adapt to remain relevant.

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A thoughtful approach to generative AI

Abrigo

Takeaway 2 AI can lead to more accurate and consistent outputs or predictions, better risk management, and improved customer experiences. DOWNLOAD Takeaway 1 With generative AI technology improving by the day, the question is not if the banking industry will utilize it, but when.