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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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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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Finding credit needles in the (market) haystack

Insights on Business

Institutions invested in a broad range of corporate debt instruments can draw business benefit from adopting an integrated view of market and credit risks. It allows these teams to blend risk factor level and bottom-up instrument info to build hedging strategies at individual issuer level, or refine broader portfolio overlay programs.

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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

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.

Policies 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. Those goals are best left to each management team and will vary based on strategy and tactics.

Capital 195