by Scott Hood | Mar 31, 2023 | Economics, Enterprise Risk Management, Governance, Risk Management, Strategy
Considering the recent events around the failure of Silicon Valley Bank and other major banks, now is a good time to revisit your assessment of liquidity and interest rate risks and, even more importantly, validate your responses for mitigating those exposures. So,...
by David Seibert | Mar 14, 2023 | Enterprise Risk Management, Governance, Regulatory, Risk Management, Strategy
Much has been written about the SVB (Silicon Valley Bank) failure, the largest U.S. bank failure behind Lehman Brothers back in September of 2008. Articles have extensively covered how it happened and what the impact is to financial markets and the banking sector. But...
by Rochdale Paragon | Jul 28, 2021 | Enterprise Risk Management, Operational Risk Assessment, Risk Management
Enterprise risk management, or ERM for short, refers to the philosophy and practice of identifying and assessing uncertainties to manage risks and seize opportunities related to the achievement of organizational objectives. There are several programs that fall under...
by Tony Ferris | Mar 3, 2021 | Enterprise Risk Management, Governance, Risk Management, Strategy
Standing on the chair did the trick. My mother taught me a technique when I was a child that’s still useful today. If I couldn’t find something I had just dropped on the floor, she told me, try changing your perspective. Look at the problem in a new way. (Hence, the...
by Brian Hague, CFA | Apr 6, 2020 | Enterprise Risk Management, Strategy
First and foremost, we would like to send a special thanks to Retired Commander Dana De Coster of the US Navy SEALs for providing much of the information presented in this article. Most credit unions, as well as other businesses and individual households, found...
by Scott Hood | Mar 31, 2020 | Economics, Enterprise Risk Management, Lending, Operational Risk Assessment, Regulatory, Risk Appetite Assessment, Risk Management, Strategy
Congress recently passed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. The Act has many provisions designed to help individuals, the health care system, health care providers, state and local governments, large corporations, medium-sized businesses,...