Executive Summary: Excellent reporting and information management capabilities are critical for managing FDIC Shared Loss Agreements (SLA) effectively and cost efficiently. However, many banks take on these transactions without understanding…
Executive Summary: 2010 provides an extraordinary growth opportunity for those banks and investors that enter into FDIC-backed Shared-Loss Agreements. However, optimizing this “once in-a lifetime” opportunity requires a disciplined approach,…
Executive Summary: FDIC Shared-Loss Arrangements with banks and investors should increase significantly in 2010. To ensure strong productivity and to optimize returns, buyers of these failed banks need to implement…
Executive Summary: Entering into FDIC-backed Shared-Loss Arrangements provides banks with an opportunity that offers highly attractive economics. However, optimizing returns from a shared-loss arrangement can be complex. Further, the five-ten…
Executive Summary: Banks continue to be encumbered by disaffected employees who are alienated from their employer and their customers. At the end of a long meeting, I recently…
Executive Summary: History provides some great lessons for bankers wishing to minimize the impact of the current downturn and avoid the next one. Managing five key areas can help management…
Executive Summary: For small business banking leaders, the same old issues continue to resurface. Determining a path and then consistently executing needs to become the priority. In the…
Executive Summary: Internal silos contributed significantly to the banking crisis. Breaking them down will be critical for banks wishing to reconnect with their customers and rebuild stable revenue streams. …
Executive Summary: Senior bankers must manage through a period of unprecedented change. However, many banks lack the organizational speed and deftness to do so effectively. Their challenge is to maintain…
Executive Summary: The consumer’s appetite and attitude is undergoing significant and perhaps fundamental shifts. Banks needs to be very sensitive to the changes that are occurring and position themselves as…