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As the Regulatory Winds Shift Again, Some Considerations for Bank Leaders
As the Regulatory Winds Shift Again, Some Considerations for Bank Leaders
Federal bank regulation has existed in the United States since the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) was…
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Proposed Contract Language Fills Gaps in Model Disclosure Standards
Proposed Contract Language Fills Gaps in Model Disclosure Standards
Banks may be held accountable for risks they can’t even see—especially when third-party vendors refuse to share how their models…
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Fraud Is Evolving. Here’s What Banks Need To Watch Right Now. 
Fraud Is Evolving. Here’s What Banks Need To Watch Right Now. 
Fraudsters are better organized than ever—and banks need to catch up. A new article based on a recent RMA Journal…
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Today’s Fraud Threat Landscape
Today’s Fraud Threat Landscape
Fraudsters are combining old tricks with new tools—and banks are feeling the pressure. A new RMA Journal article draws on…
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Ask the Workout Window: Seeking Clarity as A Borrower Struggles With Tariff Uncertainty
Ask the Workout Window: Seeking Clarity as A Borrower Struggles With Tariff Uncertainty
What should a bank do when a borrower’s tariff hedging strategy backfires—triggering an overadvance, supplier strain, and a weakening borrowing…
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Behavioral Science Meets Bank Fraud: Practical Lessons for the Front Lines
Behavioral Science Meets Bank Fraud: Practical Lessons for the Front Lines
Fraud isn’t just a tech problem—it’s a people problem. A new RMA Journal article explores how banks are using behavioral…
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Could Behavioral Science Improve Fraud-Fighting Results at Your Bank?
Could Behavioral Science Improve Fraud-Fighting Results at Your Bank?
Digital banking is a boon and a burden for the financial services industry. While customers find its speed and convenience…
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Why It Pays To Suggest a Turnaround Consultant Early
Why It Pays To Suggest a Turnaround Consultant Early
Turnaround consultants aren’t just for borrowers in bankruptcy. As Ken Yager and Jason Alpert explain in a new RMA Journal…
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Impostor Scams: How Banks Can Build a Stronger Defense
Impostor Scams: How Banks Can Build a Stronger Defense
When scammers pose as banks, they’re not just breaching systems—they’re exploiting trust. In a powerful RMA Journal article, Bank of…
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Banks Should Work Even Harder To Fight Impostor Fraud
Banks Should Work Even Harder To Fight Impostor Fraud
Even seasoned bankers can fall for impostor scams. In a new RMA Journal article, Cara Wick recounts her own experience…
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  • Compliance & Regulation, Growth & Innovation, Risk
Helping Borrowers Help Themselves: The Case for Turnaround Consultants
Helping Borrowers Help Themselves: The Case for Turnaround Consultants
With recession fears rising and economic volatility high, now is a good time for banks to revisit the tools available…
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ProSight AI Use Case Template
ProSight AI Use Case Template
The AI use case template—designed by members for members—takes a risk-based approach to the consideration of the use of AI…
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Why I Love Writing Documentation
Why I Love Writing Documentation
Bankers, especially those who work in risk like me, are frequently writing. Most of the time, we do not write…
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How Community Banks Are Tackling Third-Party Risk—One Hat at a Time
How Community Banks Are Tackling Third-Party Risk—One Hat at a Time
From fourth-party exposure to board reporting, managing third-party risk is a tall order for community banks with lean teams and…
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  • Growth & Innovation, Risk
Structuring Loans for Solar-Equipped CRE: What To Ask Up Front
Structuring Loans for Solar-Equipped CRE: What To Ask Up Front
Solar panels can complicate commercial real estate deals—and raise tough questions about collateral, cash flow, and ownership. Veteran credit analyst…
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Making Sense of Solar in CRE Lending
Making Sense of Solar in CRE Lending
Forum Focus offers practical insights drawn from real-world questions in the ProSight Member Forum, a safe space for financial institution…
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ProSight Risk Watch: Notes and Resources on Today’s Top and Emerging Risks
ProSight Risk Watch: Notes and Resources on Today’s Top and Emerging Risks
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GCOR 2025: Adapting to the Speed of Change
GCOR 2025: Adapting to the Speed of Change
As banks face a relentless pace of regulatory, technological, and market change, the ProSight Governance, Compliance, and Operational Resiliency (GCOR)…
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How To Get Issues Management Right
How To Get Issues Management Right
How your bank tracks and resolves issues can make or break its risk culture. In a recent RMA webcast, Wintrust’s…
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  • Compliance & Regulation, Risk, Talent & Workforce
Three Roles That Are Critical to ERM Success: A Case Study
Three Roles That Are Critical to ERM Success: A Case Study
What happens when a CRO, lead examiner, and risk oversight chair work in lockstep? In the aftermath of the financial…
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  • Growth & Innovation, Risk
Ask the Workout Window: A Federally Funded Borrower Is Slipping—Now What?
Ask the Workout Window: A Federally Funded Borrower Is Slipping—Now What?
When a borrower depends heavily on federal funding, even small delays can trigger big problems. In this edition of Ask…
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Reading the Regulatory Tea Leaves of a Trump Administration
Reading the Regulatory Tea Leaves of a Trump Administration
Banks experiencing a new level of supervisory intensity after the regional banking crisis of 2023 are closely monitoring changes in…
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What Rising Treasury Yields Mean for Bank Risk—and Opportunity
What Rising Treasury Yields Mean for Bank Risk—and Opportunity
Market volatility isn’t just rattling equity investors—U.S. Treasuries, traditionally considered a safe haven, are in the spotlight too, and it’s…
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  • Economy & Markets, Risk
How To Spot and Manage Tariff Risk in Your Loan Book
How To Spot and Manage Tariff Risk in Your Loan Book
With tariffs threatening to hurt many business bottom lines, two credit risk pros say in a new RMA Journal article…
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RCSA Survey: A Deep Dive Into Best Practices
RCSA Survey: A Deep Dive Into Best Practices
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The Triumvirate of Risk: A Case Study in Board, Management, and Regulatory Alignment
The Triumvirate of Risk: A Case Study in Board, Management, and Regulatory Alignment
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The Triumvirate of Risk Oversight: Aligning the Risk Chair, Regulator, and CRO
The Triumvirate of Risk Oversight: Aligning the Risk Chair, Regulator, and CRO
How can a bank’s board, regulators, and risk team work together without compromising their independence? A former CRO, lead examiner,…
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Banks Are Recalibrating Their Gen AI Ambitions
Banks Are Recalibrating Their Gen AI Ambitions
When OpenAI’s ChatGPT launched in late 2022, generative AI (gen AI) seemed poised to be the next big thing in…
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Optimizing Issues Management
Optimizing Issues Management
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The Quiet Risk Blockchain Could Address
The Quiet Risk Blockchain Could Address
Risk teams have heard the blockchain buzz before—but one push isn’t about crypto. It’s about addressing a long-standing banking headache:…
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Blockchain, Payments, and the Risks in Settlement Systems
Blockchain, Payments, and the Risks in Settlement Systems
Banks exploring uses for blockchain technology are experimenting with capital markets applications to solve long-standing custody and settlement risk issues….
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Why Account Takeovers Are So Hard To Stop
Why Account Takeovers Are So Hard To Stop
Criminals don’t need your customers’ full credentials to start taking over their accounts. All it takes is one well-crafted phishing…
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Securing Digital Banking: How Fraud Fighters Can Outpace Fraudsters
Securing Digital Banking: How Fraud Fighters Can Outpace Fraudsters
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A Playbook for Third-Party Exits
A Playbook for Third-Party Exits
Last year’s CrowdStrike outage underscored the risks financial institutions face when critical third-party providers experience disruptions. While banks invest significant…
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  • Fraud, Risk
Making Sense of Cyber Insurance for Banks
Making Sense of Cyber Insurance for Banks
Cyber threats are shifting, and so is the insurance landscape that banks rely on to mitigate financial and operational risks….
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The Cyber Insurance Puzzle: Banks Face Overlapping Policies and Uncertain Risks
The Cyber Insurance Puzzle: Banks Face Overlapping Policies and Uncertain Risks
Potential business interruptions and customer lawsuits stemming from ransomware attacks and other cyber threats are pushing banks to rethink their…
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What’s Next for Crypto Regulation? A Look at the New Landscape
What’s Next for Crypto Regulation? A Look at the New Landscape
The crypto industry is back in the spotlight after a weekend of big headlines. President Trump’s announcement of a proposed…
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Five Steps To Resolving Problem Loans
Five Steps To Resolving Problem Loans
With household debt rising and concerns about the economy growing in some quarters, identifying and addressing problem loans early can…
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New Priorities Shaping Future of Crypto Regulation
New Priorities Shaping Future of Crypto Regulation
Since the creation of Bitcoin in 2009, banks have waffled on the merits of cryptocurrencies, unsure whether to embrace, reject,…
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Account Takeovers: Why Impersonating Your Customers is Getting Easier
Account Takeovers: Why Impersonating Your Customers is Getting Easier
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Getting Real About Geopolitical Risk
Getting Real About Geopolitical Risk
A new wave of cyberattacks is a fresh reminder that geopolitical risk isn’t an abstract concept for banks—it’s an immediate…
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Storage Gets Smarter—But Is It Getting Riskier?
Storage Gets Smarter—But Is It Getting Riskier?
The warehousing and storage industry plays a vital role in the supply chain, but financial pressures—including rising costs, automation investments,…
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Why Quantum Belongs on Your Priority List
Why Quantum Belongs on Your Priority List
Last month, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang tempered expectations about quantum computing’s progress, and effectively lowered the price of several quantum-computing…
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Softer Regulatory Enforcement? Maybe Not for AML
Softer Regulatory Enforcement? Maybe Not for AML
Deterring money laundering and the flow of terrorist funds through U.S. banks will be a top supervisory priority this year,…
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Shoring Up Your AML Program for an Uncertain Oversight Environment
Shoring Up Your AML Program for an Uncertain Oversight Environment
Banks reading signals from the Trump administration predict a generally softer enforcement environment for regulations in their industry over the…
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Third Party Exit Strategies
Third Party Exit Strategies
Financial institutions rely on a large network of third parties (vendors, suppliers, service providers, contractors, etc.) for day-to-day operations and…
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Key Takeaways on Risk in 2025, Straight From the CROs
Key Takeaways on Risk in 2025, Straight From the CROs
As banks begin the year, risk leaders are contending with a mix of persistent financial risks, escalating cyber threats, and…
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Straight From the CROs: Risk Leaders Discuss RMA’s Latest CRO Survey and the State of Risk
Straight From the CROs: Risk Leaders Discuss RMA’s Latest CRO Survey and the State of Risk
Each year, RMA’s Chief Risk Officer Outlook Survey provides valuable insights into how risk leaders are addressing the financial industry’s…
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What Trump’s Deregulation Push Means for Banks
What Trump’s Deregulation Push Means for Banks
Within the flurry of activity in the early days of Donald Trump’s second term, the push for deregulation is front…
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How To Mitigate Reputation Risk at Your Bank
How To Mitigate Reputation Risk at Your Bank
In an era when information spreads rapidly, reputation risk has become a central concern for banks. Operational failures, ethical lapses,…