With the current expected credit loss (CECL) model for the Allowance on the horizon, bankers will be asked to create future-looking methodologies that adjust for reasonable and supportable forecasts. Without adequate modeling experience, that can be a challenge for community banks and credit unions.
Watch the full webinar here: http://web.sageworks.com/forward-looking-alll-adjustments/
1. Garver Moore
Risk Management Consultant
Sageworks Advisory Services
Forward-Looking ALLL:
Computing Qualitative Adjustments
August 24, 2016
P R E S E N T E D B Y
Brandon Russell
ALLL Specialist
Sageworks
2. About the Webinar.
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3. About Sageworks.
• Risk management thought leader for
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• Origination, Portfolio Administration and
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• More than 1,000 financial institution
clients
• Founded in 1998
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4. Disclaimer.
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industry data. Forward-looking statements often contain words such as “believe,” “expect,” “plans,” “project,” “target,”
“anticipate,” “will,” “should,” “see,” “guidance,” “confident” and similar terms. There can be no assurance that any of the future
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5. About Today’s Presenter.
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Garver Moore
Risk Management Consultant
Sageworks Advisory Services
Brandon Russell
ALLL Specialist
Sageworks
6. Agenda.
• Information versus insight
• Problems in current GAAP
• Concept: Loss Emergence Period
• Techniques: Regression Analysis
• Techniques: Analysis of the Variance
• Concept: Confidence Intervals
• Objectivizing subjectivity
• Case study
• Product enablement
8. Transitioning to Data-Driven World.
• Global headwind (tailwind?) affecting all industries
• Each industry is creating its own interpretation of best practices and uses for information
• Large institutions are already taking advantage
• Alt-lending and emerging players are, too – niche players (for now)
• “Big data” isn’t meaningful information
• Data = Information: not just bits on a server
• Intelligence is *actionable* insight
Information Analysis Insights
9. Real World Example: Information vs. Insights.
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35.786234 -78.662548 35.795732 -78.695490 20 2.1
35.785834 -78.662963 35.779972 -78.667196 30 0.6
35.784545 -78.699287 35.772312 -78.719604 65 2.1
35.779522 -78.668100 35.784545 -78.699287 35 1.7
35.795732 -78.695490 35.772312 -78.719604 60 2.4
35.772477 -78.722420 35.763571 -78.726986 35 0.7
35.763574 -78.727006 35.762506 -78.730763 20 0.3
Insight: Take a left on Pullen Road to reach your destination 2.65 minutes faster
10. Problems in Current GAAP.
• Convention dominating reason in low-loss period
• Benchmark reserves unsupportable by historical experience
• Reaching further and further back to pick up losses
• Net recoveries for shorter periods
• Directional Consistency traps
• No oracles
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12. Concept: Loss Emergence Period.
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Loss Rate
(%)
Balance Reserve
What most institutions think
they’re doing
What most institutions are
actually doing
Loss Rate
(%)
Balance Reserve
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13. Concept: Loss Emergence Period.
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1 yr Loss Emergence Factor:
Past Present Future
DO NOT
ENTER
Adverse
Event
Detection
Loss
Realized
Pre-Emergence period Loss Emergence Period
14. Concept: Loss Emergence Period.
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Past Present Future
Adverse
Event
Detection
Loss
Estimated
Still “Incurred”
15. Advantages / Drawbacks.
Advantages:
Faithful estimate of incurred loss within the bounds of GAAP
Useful number to understand and calculate
Useful financial bridge to lifetime loss calculation
Don’t need to continuously compute
Disadvantages:
May be greater than one, may be less than one
Difficult to un-ring the bell
Significant measurement risk in low-loss environments
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20. Techniques: Regression Analysis.
• “How does a change in unemployment impact my loss experience?”
• “What was the impact to my losses when I started writing C&I to a new segment?”
• “What is the lead time from an indicator change to a portfolio result?”
• “What was the impact of our new management team?”
• “How confident am I in my loss experience number?”
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Information Analysis Insights
22. Techniques: Analysis of the Variance (ANOVA).
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• Quantify the impact of different “Eras”
• Quantify the impact of different
segmentations
• Test for significance
23. Thought Experiment: Rocket Bank.
• Rocket Bank has a single analysis and business segment: C&I
loans with NAICS code X212221
» Mining asteroids for gold
» Experimental technologies: about 10% of rockets will fail to
orbit (default)
» Secured by existing gold stocks and exotic insurance
products – about 15% of a loan is exposed to default risk
» Extraordinarily well capitalized; inexhaustible supply of
loans
• You enter this space: think of your portfolio loans as a “sample”
» What if you win 10 loans of their business? 50? 500?
• Knowing a priori the “platonic” default rate and LGD for these
kinds of loans, let us examine how your portfolio size changes
your certainty in calculating your own experience in X212221
lending
24. Concept: Confidence Intervals.
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Documenting reliability in measurement
-4.00%
-2.00%
0.00%
2.00%
4.00%
6.00%
8.00%
10.00%
12.00%
1 10 100 1000 10000
The reliability of a measurement (e.g., Loss Rates
or PD) scales with how that measurement is
conducted.
25. Confidence Intervals 101.
• There’s a huge difference between reserving $15,000,000 +/- $1,000,000 on a $1B portfolio and
$15,000,000 +/- $5,000,000 on the same portfolio
• 80, 90, 95% confidence intervals – an illustrative concept
• Key driver: sample size – number of credits, number of observations. Management should know,
understand, and use this information! (Arguably, shareholders, too)
• Consider co-performance of credits in a segment
• Uncertainty shows up in number of PLLL transactions, or “surprise” PLLL transactions,
reactivity
26. Tools.
• Excel Data AnalysisPak (Older versions)
• First-class feature in Excel ‘16
• www.r-project.org
• Anaconda (continuum.io)
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27. Minimize Subjective Vulnerabilities.
A lesson from security risk management
concepts:
• Attack surface concept as applied to banking
risk management processes:
» Understand how much of your calculation
is vulnerable to criticism – Map your
attack surface to identify high-risk areas
of your examined practices
» Use information and documentation to
cover these subjective areas of your
calculations
» Defending your attack surface decreases
your compliance and model risk
Attack Surface
28. Case Study: Quantitative Analysis for
Qualitative Drivers.
• $500MM – $1 B in loans
• Consistent, conservative approach
• Active, growing CRE segment
• Two main regions of operation
• Consistent governance
29. Step 1: Apply Intuition.
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• What are my correlates? What do I suspect might drive my loss experience?
• Certainly, regional macroeconomic indicators
• Internal indicators
• Indicators for boutique segments or regional exposure (snowfall for mountain
communities, spot prices for ag, etc.)
37. Takeaways.
• Use of “advanced” analysis can uncover useful insight and levers in current and future GAAP
• Use of Loss Emergence Period can be supported by application data or these techniques, but may not be
right for every bank
• Consider the reliability and weaknesses of your analysis and defend judgment within those bounds
• Monitor our release notes at web.sageworks.com/enhancements for continuous updates to the application
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38. 2016 Risk Management Summit.
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• Topics include:
» CECL
» Current ALLL best practices
» Stress Testing
• Speakers from CliftonLarsonAllen,
Grant Thornton, Sageworks and more
• sageworks.com/summit
39. Q&A, Contact Information.
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GARVER MOORE
Risk Management Consultant
Garver.Moore@sageworks.com
919.851.7474 ext. 2720
BRANDON RUSSELL
ALLL Specialist
Brandon.Russell@sageworks.com
919.851.7474 ext. 2537
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40. Sageworks Advisory Services.
Use Sageworks as a partner and an extension of your team. Leverage industry expertise and market experience for various projects that
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Services include:
• CECL Transition Assistance
• Analytics Support
• Data Auditing
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• Segmentation Analysis
• Qualitative Component Analysis
• Policy and Process Review
• Concentration Reporting
• Stress Testing Board Reports
• Management Reporting
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Sageworks offers consultants that are truly experts in not only the
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standards, accounting guidance and regulatory requirements. These
consultants have been and continue to be a tremendous resource every step
of the way – from initial product implementation and training to ongoing
support.”
Franklin Synergy Bank
41. Additional Resources.
• ALLL.com – Everything ALLL, including news articles, whitepapers, and peer discussions
• ALLL Forum for Bankers – LinkedIn group for ALLL news & discussion
• FASB’s CECL Prep Kit - complimentary toolkit, to help you better prepare
• Interested in talking with a specialist?
» Email us now: sales@sageworks.com or consulting@sageworks.com
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