Board of Directors Roles and Responsibilities Training - Live Webinars, Recordings & CDs

This course provides a systematic approach covering the fundamental steps needed to manage operational risks in banks and financial institutions. Based on the three-core approach to operational risk management, it expands into critical issues such as risk analysis, risk appetite, probability, impact, and risk mitigation processes. Because external events are an Operational Risk factor we take a brief look at the COVID-19 pandemic.

This training program will detail why SR Letter 11-7 has become the gold standard for model risk management, with its principle being adopted not only by banks but also virtually all U.S. financial institutions.

This webinar highlights the evolution of operational risk management. The principles outlined in the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) report are based on best industry practice, supervisory experience and cover three overarching themes: governance, risk management and disclosure. We will look at the practicality of these principles and the implementation factors with each of them.

Vendor risk management is an important component of a financial institution’s operational risk management program. This training program will examine how a sound vendor risk management program, including careful planning, due diligence and selection, and close oversight and monitoring during the life of the contract, is necessary to reduce the risks posed by the outsourcing of critical functions.

This webinar training on stress testing in financial institutions will depict scenarios, pitfalls to be avoided, and discuss how the choice of the right scenarios can provide good insight into strategic management of a financial institution.

This training program will highlight common issues that occur over time with material compliance programs, and demonstrate how to address them. This can result in a more effective and responsive material compliance effort for your company.

This training on Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA ) will highlight the evolution of the Act and its current regulations. It will also provide attendees practical and effective methods for solid FATCA implementation along with tools for identifying FATCA specific complexities in order to avoid enforcement actions.

This training program will review the three keys to success for any bank: marketing, financing, and management. The webinar will also include how to correctly interpret the bank’s financial statements including analyzing key numbers and ratios. Additionally, attendees will be exposed to how a bank’s overall success is measured including the CAMELS rating, Baurer Financial Rating, and Texas Ratio. Furthermore, various bank HR issues and the risk of cyber security threats will be outlined.

This training program on the SEC’s new whistleblower rules will detail a fraud examiner’s role in whistleblowing and offer guidance for potential whistleblowers. The regulations the SEC issued governing the whistleblower program are dense, virtually incomprehensible to non-lawyers, and full of legal traps to gaining an award. This course will offer attendees a clear understanding of the regulations as they stand now.

This webinar will break down the Board’s role in effective cybersecurity oversight, the 12 questions a board member should be knowing to answer, key principles of oversight, tips and resources for board.

True RBIA incorporates cascading the process through to each individual audit as well as the audit reporting process. The training program will focus on the establishment of a framework or methodology for RBIA and examine how to utilize risk based questions within the process steps.

This webinar addresses recent changes in the compliance environment. It will also discuss the process for evaluating compliance department structure and the goals of compliance restructuring.

This training program will review a few ways to ensure that a financial institution reviews things from the start and consistently, in setting up a risk management framework that allows the bank to focus on its strategy rather than mere compliance.

This webinar discusses the genesis of RFIs and their development and the use and abuse of RFIs on construction projects including ways to mitigate the potential adverse impact of RFIs. Speaker discusses a number of contractual mechanisms to control the RFI process and mitigate potential impact damage claims based on the number of RFIs. The webinar also sets forth best management practices concerning the RFI process.

This training program will highlight the importance of management’s role in instilling proper internal controls within their processes. Although the Sarbanes-Oxley Act made it abundantly clear that internal controls is the responsibility of management, many companies still view those processes as the responsibility of the auditors or quality assurance individuals. The impending release of the new COSO Framework clearly outlines the importance of understanding all aspects of internal control and ensuring those elements are properly working together in an effective manner.

This webinar will enhance participants’ knowledge by detailing the elements of internal controls. Internal controls are a key part of any organization's continued growth, performance and success. With fraud at an all-time high, a well-designed internal control structure will enhance operations by improving your department's over all security and effectiveness.

Within the same document recommending never to take up a model without its full analysis and justification, the Basel Committee demanded that banks take up the IRB formula, explained par. 272 of the Basel II original text. This formula has, since then, determined to a large extent the amount of regulatory capital in the financial system. This webinar training will break down the rationale and the limitations of this critical formula.

This webinar training will discuss the lean principles and how to effectively implement them in your system to identify and reduce waste. The instructor will discuss how to apply lean to align business system and process with organisational goals so as to deliver rapid and measurable results.

This webinar will offer a comprehensive, in-depth review of the state laws affecting the corporate governance standards applicable to insurance companies and the board of directors’ role in those standards.

The application and practice of ethical behavior is not just about complying with rules and regulations but about doing the right thing. This training program will discuss case studies and how to apply best practical ethical behavior and how to incorporate the ethical behavior into your firm’s overall business culture.