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Financial institutions should establish formal service level agreements with their IT provider, for both in-house and outsourced functions. Service level agreements (SLAs) establish mutual expectations and provide a baseline to measure IT performance. Management can also tie SLAs to incentive and penalty actions. SLAs should broadly cover the IT environment to provide the institution the greatest level of assurance. Performance benchmarks and outcome-based measurements (see above) are examples of SLA issues.