Risk management

A common concern in housing finance reactions has been the lack of accommodation for strategies routinely used to manage credit, rate and liquidity exposures.

Industry Bancshares' bond portfolio is massively underwater, and one of its regulators says the company is in "troubled condition." But Industry says it was already working on fixes prior to the OCC's intervention, which it calls an "unfortunate example of regulatory overreach."

The top risk executives at U.S. banks are still weighing the fallout from the failures earlier this year and are considering ways they can better handle risks tied to their treasury and asset-liability management.

Remote work trends and high interest rates have substantially reduced the values of U.S. office buildings. A new academic paper estimates the extent of the deterioration, suggesting that there is perhaps more stress ahead for banks than is widely anticipated.

Five large U.S. banks are among 50 global financial institutions that climate activists are targeting as they push to end financing of metallurgical coal projects.

Regulators are pushing a scheme that is completely out of touch with international regulatory norms. It would irreparably harm both consumers and the U.S. economy.

The Rhode Island-based bank is bolstering its cash position in the face of worries about office loans, stricter capital requirements for regional lenders and the possibility of economic shock from overseas conflicts.

Bankers often use return on equity to measure their success, but the banks whose stock prices have suffered most during past crises are the ones with high ROEs, according to new research. The findings add to academic skepticism about high-profit banks.

Regulators and the public are still concerned about the condition of the banking system. Bankers can't afford to look away.

When 55 banks were asked to provide metrics on the health of their commercial real estate borrowers, some of them gave data that was six months old. The survey by Moody's Investors Service also found that certain borrowers are already struggling, and others could hit trouble soon, since they'll need to refinance at high interest rates.

Establishing a conduct risk authority in the U.S. would go a long way toward restoring trust in the banking industry.

UMB Financial hired an outside company to provide customer service in connection with some of its credit cards and debit cards. In a lawsuit, the Missouri bank alleges that the vendor suddenly stopped performing its duties, and that the bank's own employees had to step into the void.

Artificial intelligence can and should be integrated into the business of banking, but with adequate safeguards in place to mitigate the technology's potential vulnerabilities.

Firms that had ratings cut included M&T Bank, Webster Financial, BOK Financial, Old National Bancorp, Pinnacle Financial Partners and Fulton Financial.

The rapid pace of innovation, reliance on a web of vendors and regulatory scrutiny means fourth-party risk is a more pressing consideration than in the past.

The Federal Reserve says its findings related to "unsafe and unsound practices and violations" of previous agreements with the central bank related to the lender's prior relationship with the Estonian branch of Danske Bank.

This is no time to haphazardly pile financial regulation and additional costs on an American economy that seems otherwise set to avoid the catastrophes predicted just last year.

The Buffalo, New York, bank said that share repurchases are off the table, even though the amount of incremental capital it's required to hold has declined from last year. Executives pointed to forthcoming revisions to risk-based capital rules, which are expected to hit midsize banks like M&T.

For large banks, the agencies wanted to go above the global standards for residential mortgages, as well as some business loans, to avoid giving those lenders a competitive advantage over smaller peers, according to another person familiar with the proposal.