This blog post was co-authored by: Connor Opalka Bank Compliance Executives can rest easier at night knowing they receive insights from Perficient’s Financial Services Risk and Regulatory Center of Excellence (CoE). In this article, we highlight the key emerging industry compliance risks as they were outlined by the Office of the Comptroller of the […]
Carl Aridas
Carl is certified in the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), a Scrum Master, and a Six Sigma Green Belt project manager with more than 25 years of experience in financial services overseeing large-scale development global, multi-currency accounting, regulatory reporting, and financial reporting software platforms. He has hands-on experience completing, reviewing, and filing Federal Reserve, FFIEC, and IRS reports, including Call Reports, Y9C reports, 2900 reports, TIC reports, and arbitrage rebate reports.
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OCC Considers Artificial Intelligence an Emerging Risk in Banking
This blog was co-authored by: Ashley Simmons In conversations with financial services executives, Perficient consultants consistently delve into the application and usage of artificial intelligence (AI) within the industry. A pivotal aspect of this conversation revolves around the regulatory perspective toward AI. To help shed light on this matter, Perficient’s Financial Services Risk and Regulatory Center […]
Decoding SVB’s Failure & FDIC’s Special Assessment
In various press releases, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has highlighted that an estimated $16.3 billion of the total cost incurred from the failures of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature Bank was designated for safeguarding uninsured depositors. This financial strain emphasizes the critical need for effective regulatory oversight. Immediately following the Silicon Valley […]
Retail Deposits: Analyzing Deposit Stickiness in the Current Interest Rate Environment
In our previous article, “Transaction Accounts: Analyzing Deposit Stickiness in the Current Interest Rate Environment,” Perficient’s Financial Services Risk Management and Regulatory Capabilities Center of Excellence (CoE) explored the sharp decline in transaction account balances over an 18-month period. Now, we will delve into the stability of retail deposits from the same bank over the […]
Transaction Accounts: Analyzing Deposit Stickiness in the Current Interest Rate Environment
Retail banks respond to the Federal Reserve’s short-term interest rate adjustments with corresponding changes in lending and deposit rates. However, in the current rising interest rate environment in the United States since 2022, loan rates have adapted more rapidly than deposit rates. Sir Isaac Newtown’s first law of motion, which states that an object in […]
FDIC’s New Banker Engagement Site (BES): Improving CRA & Compliance Exam Communication
This month, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) launches it new Banker Engagement Site (BES) through FDICconnect. Already reviewed by Perficient, BES provides a secure and efficient portal to exchange documents, information, and communications for consumer compliance and Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) examinations. Specifically, BES provides a financial institution’s authorized users the ability to communicate […]
U.S. Regulators to Bank Boards: “Debt is Good”
Just before Labor Day, the federal banking regulators – The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Fed), and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) – labored to issue a proposed rule for comment that would require require certain financial institutions to issue and maintain […]
Lessons Learned From the Fourth United States Bank Failure of 2023
Background On Friday, July 28, Heartland Tri-State Bank of Elkhart became the fourth U.S. bank to fail this year. A rather small bank, as of the end of its first quarter, the bank reported $139 million in total assets and $130 million in total deposits in its FDIC Call Report. Heartland Tri-State began operations in […]
Joint Guidance Provided to Banks to Manage Risks Associated With Third-Party Relationships
It’s not you. It’s the guidance. Perficient provides risk management to more than 500 financial services organizations, many of whom have multiple bank regulators. Often an organization will have a state-charted non-member bank, which has the FDIC as its primary federal regulator. The same organization will typically have a national bank charter, and the OCC […]
Deposits, Deposits, Wherefore Art Thou? Juliet’s banker.
On May 31, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) reported to the public what many banks already knew and had been experiencing for the past year – that deposits are declining in the American banking sector. There has almost been $1.2 Trillion removed from the banking system over the past year. In addition, the recent […]
Promethium Subsidiary Receives First FINRA-Approved Digital Asset Custodianship
Promethium Ember Capital, (“PEC”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Promethium, has become the first digital asset custody provider to come under federal regulation. PEC was approved as a special purpose broker-dealer (“SPBD”) for digital asset securities. The approval allows Promethium to custody digital asset securities on behalf of both retail and institutional clients. The significance […]
Avoiding Client Remediation With RCSA (Part 3 of 3)
In our first blog in this series, Getting Started With Client Remediation (Part 1 of 3), we discussed how to get a client remediation program started, what levels of an organization should be involved in the client remediation program, and how ultimately positive outcomes, such as lower risks, improved technology, and risk monitoring, may result from […]