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The role of management and the board with the ALLL

Sageworks
July 7, 2014
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Guidance states that it is the responsibility of a bank’s management team and Board to ensure an adequate ALLL level as part of the institution’s safety and soundness. That responsibility includes several specific components as outlined in the Federal Reserve’s Commercial Bank Examination Manual

Bank management is expected to outline and then execute written policies and procedures that confirm the bank:

• Has an ALLL methodology that relies on a consistently applied, comprehensive and well documented analysis of the collectability of the loan portfolio

• Maintains an adequate loan review system to identify credit deterioration in a “timely manner”

• Collects and archives sufficient data to power the bank’s ALLL methodology and sufficient reporting capabilities

• Evaluates any proposed credit loss models to ensure they are consistent with GAAP

• Charges off loans (or a portion of the loan) when data proves it to be uncollectible

Backtests its ALLL methodology, using an independent party, to validate its effectiveness in estimating credit losses compared to actual losses

The Board of Directors is mostly responsible for oversight of the judgments made by the management team, and include

• Annually reviewing and approving the written policies that management prepared

• Assessing the viability of the bank’s loan review system (in relation to the size and complexity of the bank)

• Reviewing management’s ALLL estimation and provision for the period, along with justification of the estimation

• Enforcing a periodic review and, if needed, update to the institution’s ALLL methodology

These recommendations from the Federal Reserve are meant to be a starting point from which individual institutions can build and review their ALLL model. Responsibilities may differ slightly between banks.

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Sageworks

Raleigh, N.C.-based Sageworks, a leading provider of lending, credit risk, and portfolio risk software that enables banks and credit unions to efficiently grow and improve the borrower experience, was founded in 1998. Using its platform, Sageworks analyzed over 11.5 million loans, aggregated the corresponding loan data, and created the largest

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