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CRE risk management: Navigating hazards and opportunities

Abrigo

Takeaway 2 Advisors recommend that financial institutions look behind some of the headlines and examine their own markets before ruling out CRE altogether. 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.

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Interest rate risk management in a rising rate environment

Abrigo

If an institution wasn’t fully prepared, however, it can nevertheless meet its goals using tailored asset/liability management (ALM) strategies. Reacting to the market without a strategy can be one of the most common mistakes financial institutions can make during a rapidly changing environment.

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Understanding Your Core Deposit Study: Reading Between the Lines

Abrigo

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 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. In some markets, retail deposit rates are still catching up to the past increases on the wholesale side.

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Retail Deposits: Analyzing Deposit Stickiness in the Current Interest Rate Environment

Perficient

In our previous article, “ Transaction Accounts: Analyzing Deposit Stickiness in the Current Interest Rate Environment ,” Perficient’s Financial Services Risk Management and Regulatory Capabilities Center of Excellence (CoE) explored the sharp decline in transaction account balances over an 18-month period.

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The top 10 2022 ALM resources for financial institutions

Abrigo

Takeaway 1 Changing economic landscapes, investment markets, interest rates, customer demand, mergers, and acquisitions affect ALM decisions. Takeaway 2 Along with a five-part ALM 101 series that took a deep dive into risk-rating, popular posts touched on the value of core deposit studies.

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Why Diversification Fails at Banks

South State Correspondent

Most community banks create in-house limits on exposure, focus marketing dollars, and differentiated return on equity (ROE ) or credit spreads for particular counties, types of commercial real estate loans, or certain commercial & industrial (C&I) industries. The geographic diversification argument has been studied extensively.