December 4, 2014

American Association of Bank Directors Announces LifeLock’s Sponsorship

The American Association of Bank Directors (“AABD”) announced today that Lifelock has become a sponsor of AABD. LifeLock is a leading provider of proactive identity theft ... Read More »

November 21, 2014

Save the Date for the 2015 Bank Directors’ Summit: May 12-13, 2015

You are cordially invited to save these dates for your attendance at the 2015 Bank Directors Summit, hosted jointly by the American Association of Bank ... Read More »

November 21, 2014

OCC’s Heightened Risk Management “Guidelines” for Bank Directors – Where is the Due Process?

On September 2, 2014, the Comptroller of the Currency finalized “guidelines” to require national and federal savings banks (and certain foreign banks) with assets of ... Read More »

November 21, 2014

Banking Agency Requirement for Formal Board Training: Is It Coming?

AABD Report on Bank Director Formal Training The OCC’s recently issued rule on heightened expectations on risk management oversight by large national or federal savings bank ... Read More »

October 27, 2014

Strategic Planning as a Regulatory Expectation and Some Useful Tools

In speech delivered to the National Bankers Association on October 1st, OCC Comptroller Tom Curry emphasized the importance of strategic planning.  Although his remarks were ... Read More »

October 27, 2014

Opportunities Lost: Bank Directors Who Won’t Even Consider Making New Kinds of Public Welfare Investments That Are Safe and Sound

In his speech at the Community Banking in a New World Conference, David Baris said that bank directors, by becoming overly risk-averse, are missing good ... Read More »

October 27, 2014

Baris Speaks on “Fear of Personal Liability: Is It Founded?” at FinPro Conference on 11/14

FinPro’s Annual Directors Training Conference is scheduled for Friday, November 14 at the Marriott Bridgewater in Bridgewater, NJ. Click here to view event brochure. Click here to ... Read More »

October 27, 2014

Baris Speaks on What Community Bank Directors Need to Know Right Now

The 6th Annual Community Bank Update will be held at Salisbury University, Salisbury, Maryland on Friday, November 7. Click here to view the event brochure. Click here ... Read More »

October 8, 2014

Community Bank Directors are “Overburdened and at Undue Risk of Personal Liability,” AABD Tells the Senate Banking Committee

AABD President David Baris submitted a statement for the September 16 Senate Banking Committee hearing “Examining the State of Small Depository Institutions” suggesting that the ... Read More »

October 8, 2014

Bank Directors in North Carolina and Elsewhere Breathe a Sigh of Relief

On September 10, 2014, a Federal District Court in North Carolina dismissed the suit by the FDIC to recover losses related to the failure of state-chartered Cooperative Bank ... Read More »