PART A: Executive Summary
For this paper, selected financial data for East West Bank (“EWB” or the “Bank”) and its Peer Group (“peers”) was obtained from the December 31, 2013 Uniform Bank Performance Report (“UBPR”) and various EWB documents ; as well as from interviews conducted with EWB management .
The Board of Directors’ Loan Policy Statements, presented in this Lending Policy Manual, set forth the lending philosophy of the Bank. They provide broad guidance to management in balancing loan quality and origination objectives to achieve the earnings objectives of the Bank.
Every institution needs to accept some risk in order to earn profits; in line with their accepted risk profile and within established risk appetite. EWB’s “Risk
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As such, it is expected that the level of losses will remain low and that the Company will not incur the same level of losses in the future that were incurred in the past during the credit crisis unless the economy is reversing its recovery. PART B: Strategic Credit Risk Management
In looking across the Continua, with each plotted “X” forming a reasonably straight line somewhat towards the middle, the magnitude of risk seems to be moderate, as analyzed below:
1. Priorities: The Bank is focused on “Growth”; while maintaining high credit quality and solid earnings. This is evidenced by the $2.5 billion or 14% increase in loan receivable balance as of December 31, 2014; largely due to the growth in commercial and industrial (“C&I”) loans. Management intends to further grow this portfolio in order to sustain its prominent market position, diversify the portfolio and increase fee-based income streams. Considering that management does not have high tolerance for risk, various steps have been taken, including hiring experienced RMs and providing training commensurate with the degree of unique risk and complexity of these specialized (wide-spectrum of industries) loans; and implementing changes to P&Ps to require heightened monitoring to manage volatility and avoid surprises.
2. Culture: “A bank’s credit culture reflects its
The idea of “risk” is used in many fields and industries. There has been large efforts made towards the understanding of risk. Since, risk varies so much depending on the field of study, the need for learning about it is warranted. As can be imagined, the importance of risk in a market economy is crucial. In the 1990s, JP Morgan made the Value at Risk (VaR) a central component of its work efforts (Cecilia-Nicoleta, Anne-Marie, & Carmen-Maria, 2011).
Companies Must Incur Risk In Order To Run Their Business and Maximize Returns for Stakeholders
For many people risk is an accepted part of everyday life. Every day activities such as catching the bus, travelling on holiday, playing football, setting up home and starting a family all carry some element of risk.
Despite this financial intermediary’s immense global success, RBC’s diversified business operations face a significant amount of risk. These risks involve liquidity & funding, market risk, operational risk, foreign exchange risk, insurance, regulatory compliance, strategic risk, competitive risk, as well as credit risk. RBC manages these risks through ensuring that the business activities provide an appropriate risk-return trade-off, while staying within their Risk Appetite. RBC’s specific Risk Appetite is based on four major components and encouraging the types of risk and amount of risk that RBC is willing to take on in order to meet their strategic goals , (See Exhibit 3).
Moreover, Davies et al. (2003) notifies the importance of public perceptions of risk that often comprise the movers of changes in organisations; hence, socially constructed risk and non-experts views of risky or not risky should not be ignored.
The Licensee has implemented policies and procedures to ensure adequacy of the hiring and training of employees, systems, monitoring, and reporting functions relating to lending transactions. Additionally, management has implemented an Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) policy. Management is assigned the task of reviewing all closed loan files for compliance with state and federal regulations. The Licensee conducts an annual independent AML audit through Majestic Security, LLC. The audit reviews AML policies and Procedures required under the BSA
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The presence of certain types of risk can cause concern amongst the public especially if they are uncertain about the outcome.
Risk, as it applies to justice and security organizations means “the uncertainty of financial loss, the
Risk management is a critical issue as all institutions, financial and non-financial, are laden with huge degree of uncertainty. The role of risk management is to help a firm assess the risks that it faces, communicate these risks to the managers of the firm who make decisions concerning risks and manages those risks to ensure that the firm only bears the risks that are within its risk appetite and tolerance. Some risk analysts employ the use of statistical distributions and the correlation among them to aid corporate decision makers on matters concerning risk. However, since the financial crisis, there has been almost a general agreement among financial regulators that flaws in risk management played a major role in worsening the crisis. According to an investigation done by Dr. Simon Ashby in an article, “The 2007/09 Financial Crisis: Learning the risk management lessons”, interviews conducted with about 20 senior risk management officials’ show a common theme among their responses. Majority of them believe that some financial institutions did not properly implement risk management that were aligned with accepted good practices and too much trust was placed in
“Business operates in a rapidly changing internal and external environment… the society permits business to earn profit as reward for bearing risk” (Jain, T. R., Tregan, M. and Trehan, R., 2010) Within the business environment specifically Primark based in the retail sector there is always an element of risk,
Risk is a concept that many organizations deal with on an everyday basis. In fact, risk is an integral facet of operating an organization. Risk has negative connotations, but that is a misnomer, because many organizations make use of it for positive gain. One way of looking at risk is that it is what an organization lays on the line so that they can gain something in return. Risk is not inherently bad; it is how an organization manages it that matters. If an organization fails to manage risk properly then that is when problems ensue. In this paper, we will take a look at an example of a company that failed to manage risk properly and explain how it could have been averted. The company that we are going to focus on is British Petroleum (BP) and how their failure to manage risk has resulted in the largest marine oil spill in history. It is through examining and understanding what went wrong that we will be able to find out that risk is always present, it is managing it that matters. In the case of BP, the risks piled up without any safeguards.
To provide effective and efficient full-fledged banking service focused on development, business growth and profitability to meet the expectation of all stakeholders.
We reviewed a sample of eighteen consumer and nine real estate loans for adherence to the board approved loan policy, as well as to assess the adequacy of underwriting decisions and loan file documentation. Per the loan review it was found the credit union never verified members’ insurance for two home equities and one consumer loan. The credit union has more to lose on the home equity loans, but this practice in general is inadequate. It is noted the credit union does not have forced placed insurance, which is another item current management noted as being refused by the board. There were also instances on consumer loans in which the rates given to a member were incorrect; per management the rates are being corrected. Loans done electronically were also not being officially signed by the member, management mentioned working with the documents and service to at least getting an electronic signature from now on.
As the title of the article elucidates, the author’s purpose for writing this article was to expose and clarify the inherent risks associated with banking and financial sectors of the economy. People over all have the tendency to be protective of the thing they have earned, money is not different. As the general public’s knowledge of finance and general investing is, for the most part, limited, they will, at one time or another, trust their earnings to a financial institution. The author defines