Recently added articles from The RMA Journal:
"The future ain't what it used to be".(From Your RMA Leadership)
Dec 01, 2009; ... The year 2009 will soon come to a close, and many of us in the financial services industry are having the same thought: Thank goodness! We've witnessed continued deterioration in our loan portfolios, downward asset revaluations, shrinking (or no) profitability, and an ever-increasing ...
This crisis isn't frost's first rodeo: the Texas company conquers with its relationships culture.
Dec 01, 2009; ... Frost Bank CEO Dick Evans says success is about relationships. The bank's culture embraces those relationships in The Frost Philosophy, a booklet employees call "the blue book." It succinctly defines the mission and core values of the organization, and employees consult it the way ...
Where do we go from here? Where to find C&I lending opportunities when the recovery gains traction: although the Great Recession may linger, it's time now to plan for economic recovery.(Economic Environment)(Company overview)
Dec 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] As the fog slowly lifts following the most severe economic and financial crisis since the Great Depression, bankers are beginning to ask: How do we best position ourselves to take advantage of an economic recovery? As of mid-September, the ...
Fraud and misconduct expected to rise and fraud: amid a continuing economic downturn, nearly one-third of corporate executives expect fraud or misconduct to rise in their organizations, according to a survey by KPMG. The results were released in late August.(Economic Environment)
Dec 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] KPMG has been doing periodic surveys about fraud since at least 1995, but the economic environment in which this survey was conducted is very different from that of past surveys--which has made the results "particularly interesting," said Richard H ....
Risk management after the credit crisis top issues to tackle now: companies need to put their risk management strategies in order so they can be ready for the coming recovery.(Enterprise Risk)
Dec 01, 2009; ... There is now broad consensus that the credit crisis was sparked by a lack of appreciation of the risks companies were taking and the wide-ranging impact they could have. Scarred by this experience and facing the prospect of new regulations and laws around risk management, many businesses ...