By: Martina Dowidchuk, Senior Consultant The stock market continues to remind us of its inefficiencies. Most banks saw their stock values decline last year despite the industry’s record levels of...
By: Martina Dowidchuk, Senior Consultant The stock market continues to remind us of its inefficiencies. Most banks saw their stock values decline last year despite the industry’s record levels of...
By: Bob Viering, Senior Consultant and Manager of Lending Services For many community banks today, remaining independent is the number one strategic priority. There are many reasons boards believe remaining...
By: Bill Elliott, CRCM, Senior Consultant and Manager of Compliance As you are no doubt aware, the issue of flood insurance has been unsettled for the last 18 months, and...
By: Mike Lehr, Human Resources Consultant Never have businesses had to do so much recruiting. Never have they spent so much money on it. Yet, they have never been worse...
By: Mike Detrow, CISSP, Senior Consultant and Manager of IT Just like technology, we have seen information security risk assessments evolve over time. Initially, risk assessments were focused on the...
The OCC, Federal Reserve Board, and FDIC (collectively, the agencies) jointly issued a notice of proposed rulemaking titled Real Estate Appraisals, dated December 7, 2018 which was published in the...
By: William J. Showalter, CRCM, CRP, Senior Consultant We seem to be in a bit of a lull in flood insurance rule enforcement by the financial institution regulators. There were...