Balancing Results and Risk in Business Diversification
Banks are moving into previously untapped areas, but are they missing big opportunities in their core line of business?
View ArticleKey Insights on Capturing Small Business Opportunities
If one of your financial institution’s key priorities in 2012 is growing your small business relationships, then Omega Performance’s 2012 Banking Trends - Generating Big Business from Small Business...
View ArticleThree New Products for Omega Performance
With the launch of 3 new products this spring, we continue our tradition of providing innovative credit training solutions to help financial institutions across the world maximize their performance.
View ArticleBreaking Down Omega Performance's Survey on Small Business Lending
It’s now midway through 2012 and your financial institution may already be planning for next year. When planning starts, it’s important to take a step back and assess your organization’s credit...
View ArticleBusiness Bankers Need to Get Past the Credit Score
Andrea Binkley provides insight from her commercial lending experience as to why it's important to look past the credit score at more information on small businesses to secure quality small business...
View ArticlePut Yourself in the Small Business Owner's Shoes
How can you build better business with your small business customers? Cindy Hedgepeth offers advice on effectively winning small business customers over, from experience gained in her years as a...
View ArticleWhat Can You Learn from the OCC Risk Report?
By Joseph Sparacino, Managing Director - North America, Omega PerformanceThe U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) 2012 Semiannual Risk Report, released July 5, offered a number of...
View ArticleSimuStar: Why it’s the most valuable credit training program available
If you’ve trained new lenders or already have a team of experienced ones, you may be confident that they have the right knowledge and skills, but what about good judgment? How do you know they will...
View ArticleDeveloping a Banker’s ‘Sixth Sense’
As most knowledgeable bankers would agree, “hands-on learning is essential to being a qualified experienced banker,” but is real-world experience the only way to develop the elusive ‘sixth sense’ for...
View ArticleBASEL III is good to have, but risk culture and training will help avert the...
This year marks the phasing in of Basel III, a process that is expected to be completed by banks globally during the next six years.It is designed to ensure that banks have sufficient capital,...
View ArticleBalancing Results and Risk in Business Diversification
A recent American Banker article, No Business Like Risky Business for Regional Banks, discusses the various ways regional banks are diversifying their services in an effort to offset the decrease in...
View ArticleBusiness Bankers Need to Get Past the Credit Score
Why is small business credit training important? Before investing time, money and resources into this type of training, you need to understand its value and what your bankers will gain from it. The...
View ArticlePut Yourself in the Small Business Owner’s Shoes
Imagine you are a small business owner taking time during your busiest season to meet with a representative from your bank. After exchanging pleasantries, your banker opens the conversation by saying,...
View ArticleSimulations and Today’s World
Would you feel more comfortable flying in an airplane with a first-time pilot who has or has not completed a flight simulation series? How about the engineers who designed the buildings you live and...
View ArticleDeveloping a Banker’s ‘Sixth Sense’
As most knowledgeable bankers would agree, “hands-on learning is essential to being a qualified experienced banker,” but is real-world experience the only way to develop the elusive ‘sixth sense’ for...
View ArticleEnsure Credit Skills Mastery for Your Lenders
The vast majority of banks and credit unions who are seriously considering a more formal approach to ensuring “mastery” of credit skills are electing for an organization-specific approach. In that way,...
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Skills Application Labs, The Future of Effective Blended Credit Training
This year, upon completing extensive research on credit training effectiveness and instructional design, we introduced our new learner-centric, instructor-led Skills Application Labs (SALs). Unlike...
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How Interactive E-learning is Changing the Training Game
Do you remember when the desire to learn a new skill, whether it was Spanish, Java, quilting, etc., meant finding as many resources as possible, reading for hours, and then remembering and discerning...
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Thoughts on Global Cash Flow, Estimation, and Standardization
The term “global cash flow” is one that is bantered around endlessly by bankers and federal regulators alike. It’s common knowledge that upon assessing repayment risk on a small business loan, it’s...
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