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The Problem with CECL Models: You’re Asking the Wrong Question

The Problem with CECL Models: You’re Asking the Wrong Question

If your bank is scheduled to implement CECL in 2023, or you’re a CECL filer unhappy with your existing model, here is my strongest piece of advice: Stop looking for a “CECL” model. What you really need is a CECL process that is...
Lessons from the Field: How Three $1B+ Community Banks Are Using Pandemic Stress Testing to Manage Strategy, Risk and Capital

Lessons from the Field: How Three $1B+ Community Banks Are Using Pandemic Stress Testing to Manage Strategy, Risk and Capital

Pandemic stress tests are helping banks manage concentrations, while also reassuring boards and management teams that they can withstand the economic fallout from the coronavirus, three community bankers revealed on a December 3rd

How to Communicate Your Bank’s CECL Findings to Investors

How to Communicate Your Bank’s CECL Findings to Investors

Although the deadline for CECL implementation for many community banks has been postponed until 2023, larger banks across the country are already using the new accounting standard. Their experiences will provide lessons for the...
FDIC Says Worst is Yet to Come, 1 out of 4 ‘Satisfactory’ Banks Hit with MRBAs

FDIC Says Worst is Yet to Come, 1 out of 4 ‘Satisfactory’ Banks Hit with MRBAs

While community banks have so far weathered the coronavirus pandemic, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. officials said in two recent advisory committee meetings that the worst is yet to come. And that means banks must begin...
Pandemic Stress Testing Can Be an Investment with a Huge ROI

Pandemic Stress Testing Can Be an Investment with a Huge ROI

With the right approach, the potential Return on Investment (ROI) from pandemic stress testing is quite significant. Most community banks treat stress testing as a check-the-box exercise when they should be viewing it as a...

M&A Hunting Season: Why the Pandemic is a Perfect Time to Target Acquisitions

M&A Hunting Season: Why the Pandemic is a Perfect Time to Target Acquisitions

As crazy as it sounds, now is an ideal time to be on the M&A hunt for community banks. It comes down to supply and demand. The supply of willing sellers is likely to increase as management teams and boards grapple with the...

Tough Exams During COVID-19: One Bank’s Saga of Loan Downgrades and Stress Tests

Tough Exams During COVID-19: One Bank’s Saga of Loan Downgrades and Stress Tests

Kelly Barclay, President and CEO of Ozona National Bank in Texas, wasn’t expecting an aggressive safety and soundness exam last month in relation to COVID-19 economic issues. As a member of the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank board...

Forget Loan Categories: The New Way to Look at Post-Pandemic Community Banking

Forget Loan Categories: The New Way to Look at Post-Pandemic Community Banking

The pandemic has upended the very nature of community banking. This change requires a new way of strategic thinking, which we explain in this article. Banks that fail to adopt to the new environment will end up at a competitive...

Q2 Loan Loss Reserve Analysis: Download Free Tool to Find Out Where Your Bank Stands

Q2 Loan Loss Reserve Analysis: Download Free Tool to Find Out Where Your Bank Stands

There is no single line item in bank financial statements getting more attention these days than the loan loss reserve, due to both CECL and COVID-19. With the second quarter of 2020 now in the books, we decided to use our...