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Silicon Valley Bank Failure – Lessons in Interest Rate Risk Management

South State Correspondent

While we will cover the general lessons HERE , in this article, we wanted to focus on the root cause – how and why interest rate risk caused the second-largest bank failure in US history (Washington Mutual was the largest in 2008). More importantly, the bank’s held-to-maturity (HTM) securities portfolio was $91.3B

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Capital Market Assumptions

TrustBank

Emotions drive markets in the short term, so no matter how good your information is, trying to guess where the market will be in a year is just that – a guess. Therefore, our capital market assumptions are based on expectations for average returns over the next 10 years. annualized over the next 10 years.

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Looking through the Pandemic, Markets Surged in the 2nd Quarter

TrustBank

Following the S&P 500’s 1st quarter drop of 35%, from peak to trough, markets staged a major comeback in the 2 nd quarter as governments around the globe added unprecedented fiscal and monetary stimulus to support businesses and consumers during the COVID-19 lockdown. and the MSCI EAFE up 14.9%.

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The Long Bull Market Comes to an End in the First Quarter

TrustBank

Because of Covid-19 and the oil price war, the 1 st quarter may have been the most volatile period in market history. Although we began the year with a continuation of the long bull run up, before the quarter ended we witnessed the S&P 500 dropping over 35% from its peak and the first bear market since 2008.

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PSCU Taps New Leaders To Advance Products, Innovation

PYMNTS

Stevens will oversee product delivery and management, as well as its innovation teams. She will also manage the PSCU’s strategic partnerships, and its Enterprise Project Management Office. He joins PSCU from Bank-Fund Staff FCU in Washington, D.C., where he served as vice president of payments.

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Video: FICO World Kicks Off in Washington, DC

FICO

900 risk managers, fraud managers, marketers, debt managers, IT strategists, analytic scientists and other business professionals from 45 countries are in Washington, DC to take part in FICO World 2016, a four-day conference on analytics and decision management.

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Are The Market Lows Behind Us? – A Case in Support

TrustBank

Please understand that we do not try to predict market bottoms or time markets, but with all of the negative news out there, I thought it would be informative to consider a potential positive. Remember the markets do not mirror the economy, so even though growth continues to decline, markets can move in an upward trend.