Corporate Governance
Audit Committee Reporting
The webinar is designed to provide the participants with an in-depth knowledge of: The structure and roles of the Audit CommitteeCurrent trends in Audit Committee responsibilitiesEvaluation of the performance of their own Audit Committees in Risk and Fraud related issues What is meant by and required in terms of whistle-blowing reactions.Areas CoveredAudit Committee oversight of financial reportingoversight..
Cybersecurity Risk Management - Managing cybersecurity risks, understanding threats, vulnerabilities, and implementing controls
Cybersecurity Risk Management: Safeguarding Digital Assets.Cybersecurity risk management is the process of identifying, evaluating, and addressing risks associated with cyber threats that could affect an organization's digital infrastructure. This involves understanding vulnerabilities, potential cyberattacks, and data breaches while implementing protective controls to secure critical information and system..
Managing a Union Workforce
Directors and Managers today are continually challenged in managing their union workforce. It remains extremely important for them to have and utilize their available tools and learn new tools, in order to effectively manage their employees. The information presented in this webinar will save time and money for your organization, as managers will perform more effectively as they embrace positive employee an..
The Risk Paradox: How Effective Risk Management Undermines Risk Management
Improving an organization’s risk management efforts can seem like a Sisyphean task - one step forward, two steps back. Why? Is there something inherent in human or organizational behavior that makes us incapable of sustaining and improving our approach to risk?While risk management theory continues to advance, improving implementation on the ground has been problematic. Though most executives re..
Operational Risk Management - Identifying and Managing Risks Associated with Business Operations
Operational risk management (ORM) involves the identification, assessment, and mitigation of risks that can impact an organization’s day-to-day operations. These risks include anything from internal process failures, system breakdowns, and human errors to external threats like cyberattacks or natural disasters. ORM frameworks, such as COSO, ISO 31000, and Risk Control Self-Assessment (RCSA), provide structu..
AML Model Validation
According to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), “banking organizations should conduct a periodic review-at least annually but more frequently if warranted-of each model to determine it is working as intended and if the existing activities are sufficient.” This has become known in the industry as a model validation, system validation, independent verification and validation (IVV), or just v..
Legal Compliance Beyond the Handbook: Crafting Tailored Policies for Success
Crafting tailored policies goes beyond the generic provisions found in employee handbooks. This session delves into the intricacies of legal compliance, providing a comprehensive guide to developing policies that align with organizational goals. Topics include understanding legal requirements, tailoring policies to specific industry needs, and creating a framework for ongoing policy evaluation and adaptatio..
PCI Compliance – What Your Company Needs to Do to Get There
Your company must be PCI compliant if it receives payments in the form of credit cards, checks and wires? As our technology base in the world has improved and made our lives easier, so has the threat of having our identities stolen. Each year we hear of several companies that have experienced data breaches and the major negative impact it has on all consumers. Data breaches are not only detrimental to consu..
Personalized Development Touchstone Tool
Our “Personalized Development Touchstone” Tool helps you to reflect and start to live your life with purpose, clarity and direction by taking daily action through a series of focused and tailored activities on the Core Focus Areas of your life that really matter to you.The PDT tool will help you to take daily action through a series of focused and tailored activities to get you moving forwards, achieving yo..
Planning and Managing Organizational Change
Turn change into a positive force!Change is inevitable. But when changes are made, many employees lack the broader knowledge of why new systems and structures are necessary. As a result, frontline managers and human resources professionals must partner together and help organizations lead and manage change. This case-study-based seminar will prepare managers responsible for facilitating or implementing chan..
Putting Board Committees to Work
The savvy business people who make up boards of directors know how to effectively run complex business operations in their “day jobs.” They hire people with proven, specialized skills and a track record of achievement. They structure and organize their efforts so talent with specific skills manage and perform specific functions, all for a smooth-running corporate machine. Yet boards of directors, who today ..
Regulatory Compliance on Deposits
During this session, we will explore consumer compliance regulations for deposits in our current regulatory climate and the impact they have on institutions and clients. Specifically, we will go over the following regulations:Regulation D: Reserve RequirementsRegulation DD: Truth in Savings ActRegulation CC: Funds Availability ActRegulation E: Electronic Funds Transfer ActAreas CoveredNecessary plan updates..
Risk Management and Compliance Functions
The presentation will be prefaced by a review of the risk consequences that risk management and compliance functions are intended to prevent or at least, modify.This follows with a review of how risk management and compliance functions differ and then interrelate.Firstly, the presentation examines the roles and responsibilities of the compliance function. Specifically, it focuses on the function being respo..
Risk Management and Oversight for Boards
The corporate board of directors is a group of well-meaning, part-time amateurs, trying to monitor, control, and assure the work of the full-time professional managers who actually run the corporation. That means at best, your board will be several steps behind in having an accurate, current, complete insight into the company, its operations, its finances, and its dangers. At worst, you could, sometime in t..
Succession Planning for the Board and CEO
In this engaging and interactive session, we will explore the factors for consideration when evaluating whether the CEO may need to be replaced, and the mechanics for doing so. A business will not be sustainable if it is saddled with a CEO that is no longer a good fit for the organization. We explore best practices for dealing with this extremely sensitive, people related problem.The Nominating Committee is..