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CRE risk management: Navigating hazards and opportunities

Abrigo

Takeaway 3 Loan-level stress testing can help assess repricing risk, while capital stress testing helps clarify the impact of CRE loan losses on capital. Critical capital Should CRE lending be off the table? But understanding trends in their own portfolios and local markets can allow lenders to identify risk-appropriate CRE credits.

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Interest rate risk management in a rising rate environment

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If an institution wasn’t fully prepared, however, it can nevertheless meet its goals using tailored asset/liability management (ALM) strategies. The blue line shows the effective funds rate, or the average rate at which institutions are actually lending and borrowing funds from one another. Is the reward worth the risk?

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Registration deadline approaching - Risk management summit 2017

Abrigo

The 2017 Risk Management Summit presented by Sageworks is set for September 25-27th in Denver, CO. The Summit is the industry’s leading life-of-loan conference, spanning loan origination through portfolio risk management in a CECL - current expected credit loss - world. Register now and save $100 per registration.

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Understanding Your Core Deposit Study: Reading Between the Lines

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How to get the most out of a core deposit study. You might also like this webinar, "Analyzing Core Deposits for Risk Management & Loan Growth." Takeaway 2 Understanding the key outputs of core deposit studies helps management develop deposit management strategies through pricing.

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Why Diversification Fails at Banks

South State Correspondent

Bankers have been taught to diversify their loan portfolio to reduce idiosyncratic (individual borrower) risk and to stabilize earnings. The thinking is that diversification-induced lending leads to banking resiliency. While this study dealt with equity investments, the correlation with bank assets would be highly transitive.

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Why Diversification Fails at Banks

South State Correspondent

Bankers have been taught to diversify their loan portfolio to reduce idiosyncratic (individual borrower) risk and to stabilize earnings. The thinking is that diversification-induced lending leads to banking resiliency. While this study dealt with equity investments, the correlation with bank assets would be highly transitive.

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Why It Is Critical to Update Your Core Deposit Study

Abrigo

By Urum Urumoglu Senior Consultant A financial institution’s internal pricing decisions and strategies are crucial to the safety and the soundness of the organization and to its interest rate risk management process in particular. Time to update to the core deposit study?

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