CECL implementation: Survey Shows Where Peers Are as 2023 Nears

With just weeks left to complete CECL implementation, how are banks doing?

What are their biggest challenges with the current expected credit loss model? How has CECL implementation impacted their operations and reserves for credit losses?

The Q1 2023 compliance date is near for smaller SEC-reporting financial institutions and private or not-for-profit banks and credit unions, and progress is decidedly mixed, according to the Abrigo 2022 CECL Survey. Many institutions have made the most of the extra time the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) provided when it delayed implementation. Others are still getting plans off the ground, Abrigo’s CECL implementation survey found.

CECL implementation survey finds 8% still in early stages

In many cases, financial institutions adopting CECL for the 2023 deadline are tracking ahead of where SEC registrants were as they faced a 2020 deadline. The 2022 CECL implementation survey is the fourth such analysis since 2017 by Abrigo, which has worked with hundreds of financial institutions on CECL implementation.

One in every 10 bankers surveyed this year has adopted the standard on financial statements. Another 37% said they are running parallel allowances. 

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