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Dave Wicklund

is the Director of Educational & Advisory Services at Plansmith. He's a regulatory expert with 20+ years of experience as a senior bank examiner at the FDIC. Book time with Dave if you have questions or want to get started with a risk advisory service.

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Bank IRR: Backtesting…Necessary Evil or Just Evil?

Posted by Dave Wicklund on 4/16/15 12:00 PM

So if you’re reading this, my second ever blog post, you’ve probably already seen the first one entitled "Independent Review, Model Validation, and Backtesting: Same Thing, Only Different." In that piece, we looked at the interrelationship of these three items and brought up a few questions on backtesting. Specifically, we questioned who should do it, how often should it be done, what period should be covered, do you need to backtest model results and assumptions, and why even bother if market rates really aren’t changing.

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Independent Review, Model Validation, and Backtesting for Community Banks

Posted by Dave Wicklund on 3/16/15 2:30 PM

In our ever increasing efforts to educate and inform, our marketing department here at team Plansmith has been on me to contribute to our Blog. Quite frankly, I’m not really a "blog" guy, but for those of you that know me, I’m not short on opinions either. So, given that I sit here stuck on a plane for a few hours, this seems like a good time to take a shot at it.

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