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Today’s Cyber Risk Management

Cisco

The past 20 years have visibly demonstrated the impact large scale events have on market, credit, and operational risks in financial services. This quickly metastasized into significant global credit risk for large institutions and became the biggest existential threat to the industry in more than a century.

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Supervisor focus: Credit risk management, stress testing

Abrigo

Monitoring credit risk management, interest rate risk and banks’ ability to stress test loans affected by low oil prices are among the priorities for supervisors at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) these days, according to the agency’s recent mid-year status report on its operating plan.

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Joint Guidance Provided to Banks to Manage Risks Associated With Third-Party Relationships

Perficient

Perficient provides risk management to more than 500 financial services organizations, many of whom have multiple bank regulators. The same organization will typically have a national bank charter, and the OCC is the primary federal banking regulator for that part of the organization. It’s the guidance.

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Lessons Learned From the Fourth United States Bank Failure of 2023

Perficient

Heartland Tri-State began operations in 1985 under the name First National Bank of Elkhart. In 2017, the bank was converted from its National Charter to a Kansas state-chartered bank and renamed Heartland Tri-State Bank. In 2019, it expanded by buying its fourth branch from a competitor.

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OCC Considers Artificial Intelligence an Emerging Risk in Banking

Perficient

Positive Aspects of AI in Financial Services As noted by the OCC, advances in computing capacity, increased data availability, and improvements in analytical techniques, have significantly expanded opportunities for banks to leverage AI for risk management and operational purposes.

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Member business lending: How to leverage MBL for credit union growth

Abrigo

It also recommends including projections related to loan pricing, operating expenses, and delinquency. In developing an appropriate strategy , credit unions should analyze the various plausible approaches they may take given their personnel, operational, and financial resources. How robust is your compliance program?

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When the lights go out: why does operational risk matter for financial stability?

BankUnderground

Operational risk is rapidly becoming one of the most important threats to the financial system but is also one of the least well understood. Cyber attacks are regularly cited as one of the top risks faced by firms in the financial sector and one of the most challenging to manage. Rachel Adeney and Amy Fraser.