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Examining industries: The importance of industry analysis for financial institutions

Abrigo

Looking at how industries in your area perform allows you to see trends and assess potential market opportunities. By gauging an industry’s health as a whole, you could decide that the restaurant market in your area has remained stagnant while the technology industry is booming. Are there high capital or technological costs?

Analysis 195
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Federal Reserve Releases 2021 CCAR Testing Scenarios

Perficient

The Fed’s Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (“CCAR”) stress tests are designed to ensure that large banks are able to lend to households and businesses even in a severe recession. Also, banks with substantial trading or processing operations will be tested against the default of their largest counterparty.

Exercises 309
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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.

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How to Set Your Strategic Planning Time Horizon

South State Correspondent

You can’t develop lending expertise overnight. A three-year time horizon isn’t long enough if say you want to take your lending platform nationally such as specializing in lending on robotics. Deposits generate the bulk of a bank’s value yet most banks spend little on deposit marketing and product design.

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Federal Reserve Releases Bank’s Annual CCAR Stress Test Results

Perficient

The Fed’s Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (“CCAR”) stress tests are designed to ensure that large banks can lend to households and businesses even in a severe recession. Test Results. The 23 large banks tested remained well above their risk-based minimum capital requirements.

Capital 309
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Three ways bank-marketing executives should use data

Abrigo

Data may serve as a buzzword for marketers, but it doesn’t make it any less important. Data measuring customers’ habits, likes and dislikes, is a critical tool to any marketing pro’s toolbox. Bank and credit union marketers are often in a unique position to leverage the aggregated data of their customers. Know the customer.

Marketing 150
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Another Maryland threat to bank partner model lending

CFPB Monitor

The OCFR claims that the Bank’s failure to hold the required lending licenses makes the loans unenforceable and prohibits Atlanticus/Fortiva from collecting any amounts on the loans. In 2016, the OCFR brought an enforcement action against CashCall, a nonbank operating a high-rate bank model program. million in penalties against CashCall.