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Community Bank Director and Senior Management Workshops

Workshops

The OCC’s workshops deliver important content led by some of the OCC’s most experienced and qualified professionals. These sessions are designed to meet the needs of new directors, experienced directors, and senior management looking to review the fundamentals or get critical updates.

Who Can Attend?

Our workshops are designed for directors and senior management of national community banks and federal savings associations.

Workshops Available

We offer six workshops for directors and senior management of national community banks and federal savings associations throughout the year in two series:

Basic Series

Topics Covered

  • Learn about key and current issues impacting bank supervision.
  • Enhance understanding of board responsibilities, duties, and governance.
  • Learn about the tools senior management needs to provide information to the board.
  • Increase familiarity with strategic planning and enterprise risk management.
  • Learn about succession planning.
  • Understand matters requiring attention and the report of examination.
  • Increase familiarity with OCC communication channels for directors.

Who Should Attend?

This workshop is designed exclusively for national community banks and federal savings associations. The following individuals should attend:

  • Outside directors with less than three years of experience in a national community bank or federal savings association with assets less than $15 billion
  • Longer tenured directors who want to review the basics
  • Directors, senior management, and other key executives of new national community banks or federal savings associations

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Risk Management Series

Topics Covered

  • Enhance understanding of the OCC's approach to risk-based supervision.
  • Increase familiarity with major risks in the financial industry.
  • Recognize common ways to identify, measure, monitor, and control risk.
  • Learn the risk-related questions to ask managers, auditors, and regulators.
  • Enhance understanding of strategic planning and responsible innovation.
  • Learn about the tools senior management needs to provide information to the board.

Who Should Attend?

This workshop is designed exclusively for directors and senior management of national community banks and federal savings associations. The following should attend:

  • Outside directors of national community banks and federal savings associations with assets less than $15 billion
  • Management directors
  • Senior management and other key executives of national community banks or federal savings associations

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Topics Covered

  • Learn  how to stay informed of changes in credit risk or risk appetite.
  • Identify reasons banks develop asset quality problems.
  • Understand board and management roles in credit risk management.
  • Learn how to effect change in credit culture.

Who Should Attend?

This workshop is designed exclusively for directors and senior management of national community banks. The following should attend:

  • Outside directors of national community banks and federal savings associations with assets less than $15 billion
  • Management directors
  • Senior management and other key executives of national community banks or federal savings associations

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Topics Covered

  • Define major operational risks and the related key operational risk management processes.
  • Understand the Board’s oversight roles and governance responsibilities.
  • Discuss and share lessons learned to operating and resilience from the pandemic.
  • Outline the common methods and motives of internal fraud,and discuss the Board’s role in establishing a strong ethical culture.
  • Discuss and share "best practices" regarding the structure, organization, and oversight of a risk-based audit program.
  • Review oversight methods of  third-party service providers that perform or provide support to operational and business functions.
  • Understand the increased volume and sophistication of cyber threats and regulatory expectations for addressing cyber threats.

Who Should Attend?

This workshop is designed exclusively for directors and senior management of national community banks. The following should attend:

  • Outside directors of national community banks and federal savings associations with assets less than $15 billion
  • Management directors
  • Senior management and other key executives of national community banks or federal savings associations

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Topics Covered

  • Understand the critical elements of an effective compliance risk management program.
  • Review major compliance risks and critical regulations, such as the Bank Secrecy Act and the Equal Credit Opportunity Act.
  • Identify compliance red flags and hot topics.
  • Learn about common OCC examination findings related to compliance risk

Who Should Attend?

This workshop is designed exclusively for directors and senior management of national community banks. The following should attend:

  • Outside directors of national community banks and federal savings associations with assets less than $15 billion
  • Management directors
  • Senior management and other key executives of national community banks or federal savings associations

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Topics Covered

  • Better understand balance sheet management risks such as interest rate risk, liquidity risk, and risks associated with the investment portfolio.
  • Increase familiarity with quantifying short- and long-term balance sheet risks related to both assets and liabilities.
  • Learn about risk measurement tools such as the interest rate risk model, liquidity contingency funding plan, and risks associated with the investment portfolio.
  • Enhance understanding of the OCC’s approach to assessing the Sensitivity to Market Risk (S) and Liquidity (L) component ratings as well as the liquidity risk and interest rate risk assessments.

Who Should Attend?

This workshop is designed exclusively for directors and senior management of national community banks. The following should attend:

  • Outside directors of national community banks and federal savings associations with assets less than $15 billion
  • Management directors
  • Senior management and other key executives of national community banks or federal savings associations

More Information

Workshop Schedule  

There are no upcoming events.