FASB’s guidance for CECL is flexible when it comes to methodologies. In fact, many software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers and consultants make it a point to brag how their products can handle...
Software can be wonderful. It can provide a spike in efficiency and automate a host of processes and problems that were previously solved manually in painstaking fashion. As a result,...
FASB’s guidance for CECL is flexible when it comes to methodologies. In fact, many software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers and consultants make it a point to brag how their products can handle...
With the economic impact of the coronavirus still masked by relief efforts, community banks should act conservatively in 2021, making sure their banks have proper risk management processes in place...
Want to compare your loan loss reserve to other banks? Check out this new Invictus Group tool, which will help you do just that. The tool includes data for the...
The 2023 class of CECL banks is being unnecessarily conditioned to a false reality: Their loan loss reserve will need to increase under CECL. If CECL is approached correctly, this...
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...
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...
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...
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...