Capital Stress Testing

Beyond CECL Compliance: Leveraging CECL to Enhance Risk Management [White Paper]

This August 2024 white paper explores the opportunity to use CECL as a strategic tool for enhanced risk management. By moving beyond the minimum compliance requirements, financial institutions …

SEC Staff Accounting Bulletin 119 – CECL

Released January 2020 Introduction On November 19, 2019, the SEC issued Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 119. In the words of the SEC, “the staff accounting bulletin updates portions of the ...

Loss Reserve Increases for the Four Largest U.S. Bank Holding Companies Related to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Released August 2020 Introduction The four largest bank holding companies in the United States: JP Morgan Chase & Co., Bank of America Corporation, Citigroup Inc. and Wells Fargo & ...

COVID-19 Medical Advances and Economic Recovery Timeline

Released May 2020 Introduction This white paper, along with its predecessor, released last month, attempts to build an economic recovery timeline based upon medical initiatives currently ...

Economic Recovery from the COVID-19 Pandemic with a Timeline Developed Based on Forecasted Advancements in Medical Treatments

Released April 2020 Introduction This white paper will attempt to build an economic recovery timeline based upon medical initiatives currently underway to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. This ...

Community Bank Leverage Ratio and the MPF Program: Coronavirus Update

Released April 2020 Introduction The Community Bank Leverage Ratio (“CBLR”) final rule was recently adopted by the federal banking agencies and became effective on January 1, 2020. The rule is ...

Auto Loan Delinquencies [White Paper]

Auto Loan Delinquency Trends: Steady Overall, Rising for Millennials Released June 2019 Introduction This white paper is part of a continuing series highlighting credit trends in the consumer ...

CECL Resource Center

Our CECL Resource Center includes information on implementing the new standard, including the advantages and disadvantages of the modeling techniques that can be used and the data you should be ...

Making the Business Case for the CECL Approach – Part I [White Paper]

This December 2016 white paper is Part I in a three-part series which argues that financial institutions should forecast lifetime credit losses for business advantages, even absent the CECL ...

Best Practices in ALM [WW University PowerPoint]

This September 2016 PowerPoint shows how measuring interest rate and credit risks on an integrated basis can lead to more informed loan pricing and better decisions regarding asset mix and the ...

Implementing CECL – [CUNA CFO Council PowerPoint]

This May 2017 presentation provides practical ways to estimate credit losses in full accordance with the CECL standard and touches on the advantages and disadvantages of the various models that ...

Asset Liability Management [Nebraska Bankers Association PowerPoint]

On November 3, 2016, Frank Wilary presented at the Nebraska Bankers Association on Asset Liability Management, concentrating on the balance sheet and identifying inherent risks along with ...

CECL is Coming: Are You Ready? [CUNA Article]

The Credit Union National Association (CUNA) interviewed Douglas Winn for the May 2017 issue of the Credit Union Magazine, highlighting the Current Expected Credit Loss (CECL) model. The focus ...

Best Practices in Credit Loss Modeling [Moss Adams PowerPoint]

Take a deeper look into Best Practices in Credit Loss Modeling through the presentation led by Douglas Winn and Matt Erickson at the 2016 Moss Adams Credit Union Conference. Financial ...

Making the Business Case for the CECL Approach – Part III [White Paper]

Released June, 2017, this white paper is the third in a three-part series that presents the business benefits resulting from incorporating lifetime credit losses required under the CECL ...

Making the Business Case for the CECL Approach – Part II [White Paper]

This January 2017 white paper is the second part of a three-part series that presents the numerous business advantages resulting from incorporating lifetime credit losses under the CECL ...

Data Collection for CECL [White Paper]

Released January 2017, this white paper is a part of Wilary Winn’s series of white papers regarding the Current Expected Credit Loss (CECL) Model and highlights best practices in collecting data ...

Implementing the Current Expected Credit Loss (CECL) Model [White Paper]

CECL Implementation Updated November 28, 2016 Introduction CECL represents a major change in the way financial institutions estimate credit losses. It requires an institution to estimate ...