Risk analysis

Check your toolbox before chasing new (and expensive) modeling systems

08/11/20

Many banks buy modeling tools from vendors to help detect new areas of risk, fraud and profitability without realizing their existing systems are capable of doing the same.

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Rocky road ahead for bank profitability: OCC

06/29/20

With multiple business sectors reeling from the pandemic, banks are facing tighter net interest margins, provisioning more for losses and seeing their balance sheets expand, the agency said in a report.

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The write-downs are coming. Start preparing now.

06/01/20

Periods of significant loan defaults are tough on banks and force unpleasant choices. Here are steps to evaluate collateral in such uncertain times.

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Customers Bank enlists U.K. fintech to monitor its loan portfolio

04/08/20

OakNorth helps banks analyze credit, identify pandemic-related risks and forecast borrower issues before they turn into defaults.

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AI models could struggle to handle the market downturn

03/19/20

Many new artificial intelligence and machine learning methods used for underwriting are not fully equipped to predict defaults.

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Dear banker: It ain’t easy being a regulator

10/02/19

Banks need to understand that examiners' job is to call it like they see it.

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A busy month for fintech funding

05/01/19

Here are seven startups that received multimillion-dollar venture capital investments in recent weeks to accelerate the development of banking products and services.

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Chase Bank hit with downgrade over jumbo mortgage underwriting, fintech gaps

08/24/18

Moody's Investors Service downgraded JPMorgan Chase's prime jumbo mortgage originator assessment to its second-highest rating, citing the bank's growing reliance on correspondents with delegated underwriting authority and shortcomings in its technology infrastructure.

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