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 Brian Hague, CFA | Feb 16, 2022 | Economics, Risk Management, Strategy
Consumer inflation is at the highest level in 40 years: the Consumer Price Index (CPI) year-over-year is up 7.5% as of January 2022, the highest rate since February 1982. To put that in perspective, the last time consumer inflation was this high I was an undergraduate...
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 Rochdale | Jan 6, 2018 | Strategy
Ford Motor Company and Apple Computer no longer exist. Well, that is, they don’t exist with those names. In the past two years, Ford dropped “Motor” from its name, and Apple dropped “Computer” from its name. Ford is now all about mobility, and Apple is all about...
by Brian Hague, CFA | Apr 17, 2017 | Strategy
No, I’m not referring to the song by the Digital DJs (nor do I recommend listening to it). I’m referring to much of the confusion and erroneous conclusions around digital banking. In this article, we’ll try to clear some of that up. First, there appears to be...
