Counterparty Risk Assessments: Using Benchmarking Techniques and Simulations. At the Risk Minds annual conference, held December 8 – 10, 2009 at the President Wilson Hotel, Geneva, Switzerland, Yaron Lavie, VP of Business Development at Harland Financial Solutions Worldwide gave a presentation on the importance of benchmarking for making accurate assessments of counterparty risk. Certain risk indicators vary greatly across counterparty types, and thus become more meaningful if placed within a frame of reference. The importance of creating and applying simulations in order to assess future counterparty risk was also stressed. Practical advice for the creation of benchmarks as well as examples were offered. Several common simulation scenarios along with suggested practical applications were discussed. Click here to download the presentation.

Delivery Capabilities to Help Customers and Win Market Share: At the recent BAI Retail Delivery conference in Boston, a panel session was moderated by Sam Kilmer, Harland Financial Solutions’ Vice President of Market Development. The panel consisted of executives from TD Bank, National Bank of Kansas City and Hanscom Federal Credit Union, all clients of Harland Financial Solutions. The panel discussed top trends and best practices in retail delivery in areas such as relationship management, branch automation, business intelligence, self-service delivery and risk management, and how to gain market share in a dynamic, shifting market. To learn more, click here to download the presentation.

Managing Risk in Turbulent Times: At the recent Risk Management Association annual conference, held November 8-10, 2009 at the Buena Vista Palace in Lake Buena Vista, FL, Harland Financial Solutions conducted a session consisting of a panel of industry experts focused on trends to watch in the compliance and risk management arena including portfolio risk, data and transparency risk, and operational risk. The session, moderated by Harland Financial Solutions’ Sam Kilmer, included contributions from panelists Latimer Asch (Asch Advisory Services), Pete Graves (Independent Bank Corp.), Jeff Jinnett (Microsoft), Joseph Lynyak (Venable LLP) and Craig Focardi (TowerGroup) and are all part of the Credit Risk Consortium. The session also put forth a variety of resources including case studies and articles such as German American Bank…Commercial Loan Process, Independent Bank Corp. Eliminates Data Silos and Opportunities in the Turbulence.

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Best Practices for Commercial Real Estate Lending: Harland Financial Solutions provides continuing thought leadership via articles and webcasts offered throughout the year. Commercial real estate loan concentrations and the dropping values in commercial real estate are topics that are on most commercial lenders’ minds. The Embrace CRE Risk Management—Now!  article and Risk Management and CRE Loan Workouts: Are You Ready? webcast are two insightful resources for commercial real estate lenders that target these issue with a direct and informative approach.