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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?

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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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Food for Thought: A Policy on Credit Exceptions

Abrigo

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., unsecured lending is bad rather than unsecured lending should only be extended to high pass risk rated credit).

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Solve This Problem with Your Strategic Horizon

South State Correspondent

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. Banks need to evaluate new technology, new lending areas, and new cash management levels to name a few with a longer time horizon and with some process rigor.

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How to Choose a Hedge Provider as a Bank

South State Correspondent

We compared and contrasted the two strategies and sized the market for community banks. Lending Discipline: Hedging programs make loan pricing more transparent and force bankers to exercise sensible pricing methodologies. We also shared a table that summarized the two strategies.

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A Masterclass in Bank Total Experience In One Graphic

South State Correspondent

The total experience is the product, the user’s journey with the product, the marketing/branding, and the interaction between the users and support staff. Leaders managing product teams or departments should keep these fundamentals top of mind when launching or improving a program. It is rarely the other way around. Build from there.

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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.