Comptroller of the Currency Curry recently stated that the OCC is considering requiring its banks to separate the Chairman role from the CEO role.  This ... Read More »

In the last two months, community banks’ average investment portfolio have lost 2% in value. Bank directors that were not on the Board prior to ... Read More »

Check with management.  Plaintiffs’ counsel are scouring banks’ websites to find purported violations affecting visually impaired customers and mailing out demand letters. Banks are beginning to ... Read More »

WASHINGTON, DC (June 29, 2016) – The American Association of Bank Directors (AABD) announced today that it has named Paul Allan Schott to its Board ... Read More »

Although the concept of fair lending has existed since the late 1960s, in recent years the industry has witnessed a dramatic shift in the regulatory ... Read More »

The American Association of Bank Directors (“AABD”) announced today that Strategic Risk Associates, LLC (“SRA”) has become a sponsor of AABD. SRA is one of the ... Read More »

The American Association of Bank Directors (AABD) today announced the appointment of Liana Prieto to its Board of Advisors. Ms. Prieto is Executive Vice President ... Read More »

The book, co-authored by Catherine A Ghiglieri, former Texas Banking Commissioner, is an excellent summary of the duties and responsibilities of a bank director and ... Read More »

It’s no wonder that enterprise risk management functions in banking sometimes are reactive, backward looking and often entrenched in performing, after the fact, checklist activities ... Read More »

The American Association of Bank Directors (AABD) today announced the formation of the AABD Risk-Reward Committee. Joe O’Donnell, the Director of Enterprise Risk Management at ... Read More »