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Stablecoins: Opportunities & Risks forCommunity Banks & Credit Unions
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Dr. Zoya Faynleyb, Managing Principal, VB Sentry April 9, 2026 Financial Times has listed “Stablecoin” as one of its “2025 Year in a Word” highlights for a reason: it is one of the most rapidly developing concepts in the U.S. financial industry. While community banks historically are conservative with adopting the new types of customers …
Revised Interagency Supervisory Guidance on Model Risk Management (issued April 17, 2026, by the FDIC, OCC, and Federal Reserve Supersedes the 2011 Supervisory Guidance on Model Risk Management
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In case you missed it, and almost exactly 15 years later, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System have jointly issued revised interagency guidance on Model Risk Management (MRM), effectively superseding or replacing SR 11-7/OCC 2011-12/FIL-22-2017 with SR 26-2/OCC 2026-13/FIL-15-2026. This …
VBC and Seifried & Brew Join Forces to Expand Offerings to the Financial Services Industry
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Haverford, PA – January 5, 2023 Velligan-Blaxall Consultants, LLC (VBC), a leading risk management firm headquartered in Haverford, PA has acquired Bethlehem, PA based Seifried & Brew, LLC (S&B) as part of the firm’s ongoing strategic vision to expand its service offerings and increase its value-proposition for clients. S&B brings their nationally recognized Risk Assessment …
VBC Advisors Announces the Launch of a $10 Billion Crossover Readiness Preparation and Planning Services Offering
Posted in MRM, News & Events, VBC Advisors
In making this offering, VBC Advisors applies its agile, client-centric services delivery model to ensure that its pool of skilled consulting resources and experts are carefully aligned against client requirements. VBC Advisors delivers comprehensive, fit-for-purpose and tailor-made governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) frameworks, independent risk and gap assessments, and actionable, independent guidance supporting $10 billion threshold …
Velligan-Blaxall Consultants Launches VBC Advisors, A Specialty Professional Advisory Practice Serving Financial Institutions
Posted in Insights, News & Events, VBC Advisors
Velligan-Blaxall Consultants, LLC is pleased to announce the launch of VBC Advisors, our specialized consulting services division offering professional advisory services and resource augmentation in the practice domains of model risk management (MRM), Governance Risk Compliance (GRC), data, and technology. Co-led by Brian Velligan and James Glueck, VBC Advisors delivers proven experience informing MRM framework …
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