Kiah Lau Haslett is the Banking & Fintech Editor for Bank Director. Kiah is responsible for editing web content and works with other members of the editorial team to produce articles featured online and published in the magazine. Her areas of focus include bank accounting policy, operations, strategy, and trends in mergers and acquisitions.
Spotlight on Accounting
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Kiah Lau Haslett
Banking & Fintech Editor
Kiah Lau Haslett
Banking & Fintech Editor
Accounting rules often have a meaningful impact on strategy and growth at today’s financial institutions. Bank Director’s Banking and Fintech Editor Kiah Lau Haslett shares some of the buzz at the 30th annual Acquire or Be Acquired Conference around the importance of accounting treatment to liquidity, mergers and supervision. Pooled accounting and the current expected credit losses model, or CECL, featured in a 30-year retrospective of the banking industry. And Hovde Group’s Curtis Carpenter discussed the impacts of fair value marks on purchase accretion on deals — and why that has complicated deal negotiations.
WRITTEN BY
Kiah Lau Haslett
Banking & Fintech Editor
Kiah Lau Haslett is the Banking & Fintech Editor for Bank Director. Kiah is responsible for editing web content and works with other members of the editorial team to produce articles featured online and published in the magazine. Her areas of focus include bank accounting policy, operations, strategy, and trends in mergers and acquisitions.