In articles one and two of this three-part BAI Banking Strategies series, we outlined CECL, the Current Expected Credit Loss standard issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board.

In June 2016, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued a new standard for the timely reporting of report credit losses on loans and other financial instruments—and in the process, created one of the most significant changes in recent years for financial institutions.

If necessity is the mother of invention, then there’s a new child in financial services that reconciles compliance and regulation with a seeming opposite: efficiency.

In December, shareholders of Chicago-based PrivateBancorp postponed a vote on whether to accept a $3.

Last June, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued the final current expected credit loss (CECL) standard as a prevention technique to avoid a future financial crisis.

Mortgage and auto loan providers are caught between a rock and a hard place after a ruling by the U.

Handing someone a $100 bill is an instant payment.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) is expected to release the final standard of the current expected credit loss (CECL) model in the first half of 2016.

Regulatory compliance is and always will be a major challenge for financial institutions, particularly when it comes to customer onboarding.

Whistleblowing.

Everyone who works in financial services has heard something about the Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR).

It’s time to simplify overdraft (OD) fees.

Banking is not being disrupted; it is being evolved.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB’s) new rules for overdrafts (ODs) on checking accounts are scheduled for July of this year.

Overregulation is killing small banks; call it death by paperwork.

The heat is back on overdraft.

Business and management experts wrote nearly 30 years ago that one of the keys to a successful business is to break down the barriers between staff areas.

Global commerce is bringing down barriers around the world, including the barrier to bankers entering into International Trade Finance (ITF).

Federal Reserve chairwoman Janet Yellen recently indicated in no uncertain terms that it was not the Fed’s intention to raise interest rates for the foreseeable future.

In the movie The Matrix, the hero Neo, played by Keanu Reeves, meets a mysterious man named Morpheus who tells him that he is just a small part of the Matrix and one of its slaves.