FASB declines to tackle new credit risk transfer project
CFO Dive
JANUARY 16, 2025
accounting standard setter decided against adding a new project to its priority agenda that would have required banks to disclose more information about CRTs.
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CFO Dive
JANUARY 16, 2025
accounting standard setter decided against adding a new project to its priority agenda that would have required banks to disclose more information about CRTs.
Global Finance
DECEMBER 16, 2024
As AI is piloted and adopted across all aspects of the personal and business banking landscape, Global Finance held a Digital Banking and AI Innovation panel in London with global financial industry leaders to explore the impact of new technologies and how to incorporate them in a way that creates a win-win for all stakeholders.
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PYMNTS
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Of the seemingly inexhaustible uses of artificial intelligence (AI) in the financial sector, its applications around managing credit risk and optimizing payment services are among the most promising. percent are doing so in credit underwriting. The second-most common application is credit underwriting, as 71.4
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PYMNTS
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There is a great deal of economic uncertainty in the world today, as many banking managers and executives are acutely aware. These circumstances have brought to the fore what has long been a central concern for lenders: assessing and managing credit risk. Among banks that use AI, 92.9 percent today. percent today.
PYMNTS
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Managing credit risk used to be a reactive process. Bank customers would fall behind on their payments, and their banks might react by imposing fees or having a case manager work with them to bring their accounts back up to speed. This was not only costly for customers, but also financially dubious for their banks.
PYMNTS
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But AI is still relatively rare in the banking world, with only 5.5 percent of banks in our survey equipped with genuine AI systems. Credit Risk. Core use cases that are getting a lot of traction, Dhala said, involve credit risk. AI can also help to spot credit risk.
PYMNTS
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Today in B2B, Bloomberg broadens its credit risk data pool, and two ERP solutions secure B2B payments integrations. Bloomberg To Incorporate Credit Risk Data. The release stated firms have more often been looking for data to validate their own internal counterparty and credit risk assessment.
CFA Institute
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Ladislao Vidal, CFA, is a sales executive at FIS, which provides technological solutions for the banking sector. He joined the company in 2017 as a consultant helping banks across Europe improve their risk and treasury frameworks and decision making. He started his career as derivatives trader at a commodities firm.
PYMNTS
JANUARY 24, 2019
Also, what’s a simple and legitimate matter of credit risk ? Criminals have learned how to exploit situations in which fraud might — initially, but for a meaningful period of time — look like an issue of credit risk, which can make so much of fraud prevention reactive, not proactive. Here’s a test: What’s fraud?
PYMNTS
JANUARY 22, 2021
Given the roller coaster ride consumer finances have been on for the last 10 months, managing risk has become critical for financial institutions (FIs), both in terms of rising fraud counts and in terms of rising consumer delinquencies. Driving Actionable Intelligence In Real Time. And these models aren’t one-off events.
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Africa : UBA United Bank for Africa (UBA) is celebrating its 75th anniversary. With a portfolio of over a million SME clients and a loan book of $90 million, the bank has been instrumental in ensuring that SMEs remain the engine of growth. The bank also ensures easy transaction processing through its UBA Afritrade and UBA Connect.
Future CFO
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Top 2024 macro-credit risks include tight liquidity and funding conditions, uncertainty about China’s macroeconomic outlook and property sector, and geopolitical event risk, said Fitch Ratin gs recently. The post Top 2024 macro-credit risks appeared first on FutureCFO.
PYMNTS
NOVEMBER 3, 2020
In today’s top news in digital-first banking, digital payments network Zelle crossed over the one-billion transaction mark, while China’s tests of a digital yuan have processed over four million transactions. Plus, Bloomberg clients will now have the capacity to use the company’s terminal to look at Credit Benchmark’s risk data.
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Future CFO
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When it comes to the main credit risks, inflation and interest rates remain the most significant watch item for global credit, said Fitch Ratings recently. According to Fitch’s base-case forecasts, this will include a shallow recession in the US, limited growth in the eurozone and building risks to China’s recovery.
PYMNTS
OCTOBER 14, 2020
Artificial intelligence (AI) credit risk model provider Flowcast has unveiled the Tillful platform that provides quick, complimentary and transparent credit scores in addition to access to credit offers, according to a Wednesday (Oct. 14) announcement. small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). "In
PYMNTS
JULY 16, 2020
Blockchain initiative Teller has notched $1 million in a Framework Ventures-led seed capital to create a decentralized finance (DeFi) credit risk tool, according to an announcement. The bank will also start using the cryptocurrency for Hong Kong Monetary Authority transactions in September.
PYMNTS
OCTOBER 9, 2018
However, to get down to his concerns, the analyst said — per news reports such as CNBC — that the recently debuted “Square Installments” (which, as the name implies, offers payment plans) may expose the company in a way that makes it vulnerable to credit markets.
PYMNTS
NOVEMBER 12, 2020
It may be an open road for open banking as, three years after the rollout of the second Payment Services Directive (PSD2), bank-FinTech collaborations and new initiatives unlocking bank account data continue to flourish. ThinCats Links Up With Open Banking FinTech Salt Edge. But it may not always be smooth sailing ahead.
CFA Institute
DECEMBER 15, 2023
Ladislao Vidal, CFA, is a sales executive at FIS, which provides technological solutions for the banking sector. He joined the company in 2017 as a consultant helping banks across Europe improve their risk and treasury frameworks and decision making. He started his career as derivatives trader at a commodities firm.
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This is a concern for credit executives because a high percentage of the companies you deal with are likely to be inadequately protected. For example, when you share bank account information that enables your customers to make ACH payments to your company, it can also be exposed in the event of a customer’s data breach.
PYMNTS
NOVEMBER 10, 2020
It’s here now and being used to make good banks better — whether to eliminate discrimination in lending decisions, add stability to existing screening systems or drive loan growth and profits. Ensuring Inclusive Banking. He said everyone in banking — from small credit unions to giant U.S. 15M In New Funding .
PYMNTS
APRIL 2, 2020
Every interaction tells banks what customers actually want, meaning FIs just need the right tools to interpret this data. billion by 2025, with banks of all sizes leveraging such capabilities. Data analytics can give banks valuable insights into their customers’ financial lives and help them offer tailored financial products.
CFA Institute
MARCH 6, 2025
Ladislao Vidal, CFA, is a sales executive at FIS, which provides technological solutions for the banking sector. He joined the company in 2017 as a consultant helping banks across Europe improve their risk and treasury frameworks and decision making. He started his career as derivatives trader at a commodities firm.
CFA Institute
OCTOBER 31, 2023
He has over 20 years of experience in the areas of market and credit risk management, portfolio management, quantitative modeling, treasury balance sheet management, and capital planning.
PYMNTS
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16) said Lendingkart will offer its credit risk assessment technology to banks and other alt-lenders starting in 2017. According to Lendingkart Cofounder Harshvardhan Lunia, the company will look to expand its reach in the SME lending market over the next six months by having other banks use its credit risk analytics software.
Global Finance
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After a third party runs a credit check and assumes the credit risk of non-payment, a purchaser can delay payment for a fixed period or pay in whole or installments. Using B2B BNPL, MSMEs avoid tapping their credit lines to pay invoices and avoid trade credit negotiations. So they are into that.
PYMNTS
NOVEMBER 11, 2020
The launch comes after a successful pilot program, Visa noted, with the focus of the chosen FinTechs ranging from small business credit risk and buy now, pay later to merchant search and transaction compliance. This means that financial institutions and businesses of all sizes are looking for ways to rapidly develop their offerings.”.
PYMNTS
NOVEMBER 7, 2018
In other news, the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) is placing new digital currency restrictions on banks, Crytovest reported. In essence, the outlet reported that “banks must reserve significantly more capital to cover crypto losses compared to other asset classes.”
CFO News
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Speaking at the ‘Global Conference on Financial Resilience’, RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das shared the results of latest macro stress tests for credit risk conducted by the central bank which indicates that banks in India are well placed to comply with the minimum capital requirements even under severe stress situations.
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The transcript from this weeks, MiB: Melissa Smith, co-Head of Commercial Banking at JPMorgan , is below. Melissa Smith is co-head of commercial banking for JP Morgan. Previously she was co-head of the bank’s Innovation Economy Group. And just to define that middle market sort of means in, in the commercial banking, right?
CFA Institute
OCTOBER 18, 2023
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PYMNTS
MARCH 30, 2020
Bank regulators have rolled back the Jan. 1 accounting standard known as “current expected credit loss” (CECL) in an effort to bolster loans in the wake of the coronavirus, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday (March 27). National bank regulators — The Federal Reserve, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
PYMNTS
APRIL 16, 2019
But it occurred to them that their solution was useful outside of HR — and that many of the things that made someone a good hire of over time could also make them a good credit risk over time, if the artificial intelligence (AI) model they were using to screen with were modified to that task.
PYMNTS
DECEMBER 10, 2020
And in banking, financial institutions can incorporate artificial intelligence into their consumer credit strategies at a time when a retroactive approach to credit risk management has become less feasible amid COVID-19. 80%: Share of banking interactions done online in 2020. All this, Today in Data.
PYMNTS
OCTOBER 3, 2017
French startup Tinubu Square has secured funding for its solution that provides trade credit risk management, according to news reports on Monday (Oct.2). Tinubu Square’s customers are credit and surety insurers, trade finance banks and export credit agencies, according to reports. “The
PYMNTS
MARCH 6, 2020
What some banks purport to be AI is often lumped together with other less sophisticated computational systems or, in some cases, not AI at all but the result of intensive human labor. bank executives at institutions ranging from $1 billion in assets to more than $100 billion. Yet, these claims do not always rest on a solid foundation.
PYMNTS
DECEMBER 5, 2018
With the threat of third-party cyber risks rising, the financial services (FinServ) industry is especially prone to hacks that can ripple through supply chains. This is particularly true as open banking initiatives encourage bank collaboration with third-party FinTech firms and facilitate the movement of data between platforms.
PYMNTS
NOVEMBER 17, 2019
Following years of brisk expansion, China’s smaller financial institutions are seeing hard times as customers turn to larger banks and the local economy slows, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on Sunday (Nov. S&P Global analysts figure that troubled lenders make up about 4 percent of China’s total banking capital.
PYMNTS
JUNE 17, 2020
In financial fraud, the breaches come when bank standards are lax. Australian bank Westpac Banking Corp. And that guiding principle is what leads fraudsters and bad actors to probe systemic vulnerabilities in banks’ compliance processes. may stand as Exhibit A here. There was no evidence of intentional wrongdoing.”.
Future CFO
JUNE 28, 2020
The various policy measures will mitigate credit-negative pressure on companies, banks and the broader economy, but weakness in trade, commodity prices and general sentiment will weigh on growth for all five economies,” Deborah Tan, a Moody’s Assistant Vice President pointed out. “The
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