While it’s no surprise that fair lending is among the regulators’ top issues in 2022 — if not THE top issue — it’s a good idea to be aware of new areas in which this is evaluated. One such area is bias within the appraisal and property evaluation process. This has been a hot topic for a few years now and has been the subject of a Presidential Executive Order, as well as discussions by all the federal government agencies with a stake in residential matters, including loans. As well, several important studies were conducted to determine the extent of the issue, and a task force was established last year to examine the issue. A report was issued earlier this year documenting the task force’s findings, as well as recommendations for eliminating bias within the appraisal and valuation processes.
In this webinar, we’ll go in-depth on this issue, and dissect the various decrees, public statements, studies, and reports. More importantly, we’ll discuss what you can (and should) do as a lender about this issue right now. We’re only at the beginning when it comes to this issue, and the coming months and years promise additional guidance, and even regulation, on this important issue.
What You Will Learn
Who Should Attend
Anyone in the institution having virtually any responsibility in the lending process has fair lending responsibilities, from senior management, loan officers, underwriters, and closing agents, to compliance officers, auditors, and attorneys, and would benefit from this valuable information.
Instructor Bio
Carl Pry is a Certified Regulatory Compliance Manager (CRCM) and Certified Risk Professional (CRP) who is a Managing Director for Treliant Risk Advisors in Washington, D.C. Through his working career, as well as through his experience as a banking attorney and officer, he has provided a variety of regulatory compliance and financial performance services to financial institutions and other clients throughout the country. He has written extensively regarding consumer and commercial compliance, tax, audit, and financial institution legal issues, and is a frequent contributor to and currently serves on the Editorial Advisory Board for the ABA Bank Compliance magazine. He has spoken at scores of banking, compliance, and state bar associations, and has conducted training sessions for financial institutions across the country.
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Spreadsheet work often entails seemingly unavoidable data entry tasks. However, very often tedious input tasks can be automated, or at least made easier. In this webinar, Excel expert David H. Ringstrom turns his attention to empowering you to work more effectively with getting data into your spreadsheets and transforming data when needed. Techniques include worksheet functions such as CONCATENATE, TEXTJOIN, UPPER, PROPER, and so on, as well as using Microsoft Word to extract text from PDF files. You’ll see how to use Excel on your mobile device to take a picture of a printed document that you then convert to text within an Excel spreadsheet. Other techniques include helpful aids such as custom lists, data validation, and much more.
Ringstrom demonstrates every technique at least twice: first, on a PowerPoint slide with numbered steps, and second, in the subscription-based Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365) version of Excel. Ringstrom draws your attention to any differences in the older versions of Excel (2021, 2019, 2016, and earlier) during the presentation as well as in his detailed handouts. Ringstrom also provides an Excel workbook that includes most of the examples he uses during the webcast.
Microsoft 365 is a subscription-based product that provides new feature updates as often as monthly. Conversely, the perpetual licensed versions of Excel have feature sets that don’t change. Perpetual licensed versions have year numbers, such as Excel 2021, Excel 2019, and so on.
Covered Topics
Who Should Attend
Professionals seeking to use Microsoft Excel more effectively.
Instructor Bio
David H. Ringstrom, CPA, is an author and nationally recognized instructor who teaches scores of webinars each year. His Excel courses are based on over 25 years of consulting and teaching experience. Ringstrom’s mantra is “Either you work Excel, or it works you”, so he focuses on what he sees users don’t, but should, know about Microsoft Excel. His goal is to empower you to use Excel more effectively. To learn more about Ringstrom, you can view his LinkedIn profile and follow him on Facebook or Twitter (@excelwriter).
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Determining an entity’s ability to generate cash flow is essential whenever repayment of a loan will extend beyond one year. Cash flow analysis measures an entity’s ability to generate sufficient cash to operate successfully and have excess cash to service annual debt payment requirements. Understanding how to calculate and interpret cash flow is essential for successful financial institutions.
Learn how to calculate cash flow using the Universal Cash Flow Analysis method (UCA), which determines the flow of cash into and out of a business entity. First, we’ll define cash flow and identify potential sources and uses of cash. Next we’ll illustrate how cash flow analysis is actually the process of converting an Accrual Basis financial statement into a Cash Basis financial statement. We’ll cover the Rules of Cash Flow when determining cash flow generation from changes in asset, liability and capital accounts on balance sheets over time. We’ll culminate by using a full UCA from beginning to end.
Covered Topics
Who Should Attend
Senior Loan Officers, Senior Credit Officers, Commercial Loan Officers, Branch Managers, Credit Analyst, Loan Review Personnel, and Consumer Loan Officers.
Instructor Bio
Jeffery W. Johnson started his career with SunTrust Bank in Atlanta as a management trainee and progressed to vice president and senior lender of SouthTrust Bank and senior vice president and commercial banking division manager for Citizens Trust Bank of Atlanta.
Most of his career has been spent in Credit Administration, Lending, Business Development, Loan Review, Management, and Training & Development. He has managed loan portfolios representing a cross section of loan types including: Large Corporate, High Net Worth Individual, Middle Market Companies, Small Business, Real Estate, and Non-Profit Organizations.
Mr. Johnson is now a training professional in the financial industry by leading various seminars covering important topics relating to issues in financial institutions. He teaches actively for fifteen state banking associations in the United States, Risk Management Association (RMA) and individual financial institutions nationwide. He co-authored a training course entitled “Lending to Service and Other Professional Organizations” for RMA in 2001.
Mr. Johnson earned a B.A. in accounting from Morehouse College in Atlanta; a MBA in finance from John Carroll University in University Heights, Ohio; banking diploma from Prochnow School of Banking at the University of Wisconsin and a Graduate Certificate in bank management from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
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The Call Report for 2022 is impacted by new and recent reporting requirements related to the adoption of the lease accounting standard, reporting brokered deposits, sweep accounts, and international remittance transfers.
Consideration of the FASB’s Accounting Standard Update (ASU) 2022-02 with impact to Accounting Standard Codification (ASC) Topic No 326 related to the elimination of Troubled Debt Restructuring recognition and measurement is also impactful to future regulatory reporting.
Also, consideration of the FASB issued exposure draft related to the extended application of ASC Topic No 848 related to Reference Rate Reform will be discussed in this training.
Covered Topics
Who Should Attend
Anyone responsible for preparing, reviewing, auditing, or signing the Call Report will find the program valuable. The seminar is designed for more experienced preparers and reviewers interested in new reporting requirements and up-to-date rulings impacting preparation of the Call Report.
Instructor Bio
Cynthia Dopjera, a Certified Public Accountant, has 38 years of experience focused on accounting and regulatory reporting for financial institutions. During the first 18 years of her career, Ms. Dopjera held various positions with responsibility across all operational areas, to include accounting, internal audit, Call Report preparation and review while working for community as well as regional banks.
In 2000, Ms. Dopjera joined the public accounting firm of Harper & Pearson Company, P.C., where she served as Practice Leader for the Firm’s financial institutions practice covering community and regional institutions. The Firm’s services included financial statement audit, accounting, tax preparation and filing, internal control audit, Call Report audit, loan and asset quality review, and design and implementation of internal controls over financial reporting frameworks for institutions regulated under FDICIA and Sarbanes-Oxley. In 2018, Ms. Dopjera retired from Harper & Pearson Company, and currently provides accounting, consulting, and training services to financial institutions.
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Since 1989, Regulation Z has required financial institutions to develop special home equity lines of credit (HELOC) program disclosures. Many other regulations also apply to HELOCs, frequently with provisions that are unique for this type of credit. HELOCs are complicated. There are layers of disclosures provided at application, closing and throughout the life of the line. There are restrictions that apply to HELOCs that do not apply to other types of loans. There are unique portfolio management issues such as how to handle lines that are nearing the end of their draw periods, and limitations on selecting a new index when the existing index expires.
This two-hour program explains how to develop, maintain and audit HELOC program disclosures and provides an overview of other required disclosures. The program explains the rules, reviews typical problems, and provides steps to assure ongoing compliance.
Participants receive a detailed manual that serves as a handbook long after the program is completed.
Covered Topics
Upon completion of the program, attendees will understand:
Who Should Attend
The program is designed for loan officers, compliance officers, loan support staff, marketing staff, auditors, and any others with responsibilities related to the origination and maintenance of HELOCs.
Instructor Bio
Jack Holzknecht is the CEO of Compliance Resource, LLC. He has been delivering the word on lending compliance for 44 years. In 39 years as a trainer over 147,000 bankers (and many examiners) have participated in Holzknecht’s live seminars and webinars. Holzknecht’s career began in 1976 as a federal bank examiner. He later headed the product and education divisions of a regional consulting company. There he developed loan and deposit form systems and software. He also developed and presented training programs to bankers in 43 states. Holzknecht has been an instructor at compliance schools presented by a number of state bankers associations. As a contractor, he developed and delivered compliance training for the FDIC for ten years. He is a Certified Regulatory Compliance Manager and a member of the National Speakers Association.
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Writing a dynamic CRA context report can show examiners not only that your financial institution understands the community demonstrate why your CRA program qualifies for a “Satisfactory” or possibly “Outstanding” rating credit needs, but that you are effectively meeting the needs in the assessment areas you serve. We will review the steps required to establish your case and tips for managing the exam.
The definition of “community development” changed in September 2005 to include, among other things, activities that revitalize or stabilize designated disaster areas. A financial institution’s activity will be considered to revitalize or stabilize a designated disaster area if it helps to attract new, or retain existing, businesses or residents and is related to disaster recovery and examiners will consider revitalization or stabilization activities that take place within 36 months after the date of the disaster designation. Could your financial institution be eligible to receive special consideration for lending in a designated disaster area?
Covered Topics
Who Should Attend
This session is “must” for CRA Officers of small, intermediate, and large institutions. The session will also benefit the Board & senior management, credit administration, lenders, compliance, and marketing professional.
Instructor Bio
Susan Costonis is a compliance consultant and trainer. She specializes in compliance management along with deposit and lending regulatory training.
Costonis has successfully managed compliance programs and exams for institutions that ranged from a community bank to large multi-state bank holding companies. She has been a compliance officer for institutions supervised by the OCC, FDIC, and Federal Reserve. Costonis has been a certified regulatory compliance manager since 1998, completed the ABA Graduate Compliance School, and graduated from the University of Akron and the Graduate Banking School of the University of Colorado. She regularly presents to financial institution audiences in several states and translates complex regulations into simple concepts by using humor and real life examples.
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Part of 2022 Consumer Lending Series.
“101” may actually represent the potential number of details in consumer lending. This soup-to-nuts webinar will address all the steps in consumer lending so that you can navigate the process with accuracy and aplomb.
After This Webinar You’ll be Able To:
Webinar Details
Proper analysis of consumer loan requests is more important today than any time in the history of banking because COVID-19 negatively affected many consumer borrowers and left them in a weaker financial condition. For this reason, and because financial institutions must continue to grow their consumer loan portfolios safely, lending practices must be adjusted to ensure the next loan applicant is not becoming overextended and unable to meet his/her obligations.
There are several steps that describe the consumer lending process, and they all end with a variation of the suffix “-tion” — which means “the act of.” All steps are necessary to build a good consumer loan portfolio. The “-tion” method in consumer lending includes regulation, initiation (business development), application, investigation, evaluation, decision, documentation, administration, and collection.
Who Should Attend?
This webinar will benefit senior credit officers, senior loan officers, commercial lenders, consumer lenders, branch managers, assistant branch managers, personal bankers, loan review personnel, documentation specialists, and those interested in learning more about consumer lending.
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Note: All materials are subject to copyright. Transmission, retransmission, or republishing of any webinar to other institutions or those not employed by your institution is prohibited. Print materials may be copied for eligible participants only.
Presenter
Jeffery W. Johnson, MBA – Bankers Insight Group
Jeffery Johnson has been in financial services more than 40 years. He has been VP and senior lender for a large regional bank and SVP and commercial banking division manager for a community financial institution. Most of his career has been spent in credit administration, lending, business development, loan review, management, and training and development. Over the last 17 years, Johnson has provided training for several banking associations and individual financial institutions nationwide.
Johnson holds a bachelors in accounting from Morehouse College in Atlanta, an MBA in finance from John Carroll University in Cleveland, a Diploma of Graduation from the Prochnow School of Banking at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a Graduate Certificate in Bank Management from the First American Management Institute at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business.
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Several LIBOR indices will cease publication in June 2023. In response, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has issued a final rule to facilitate the industry’s transition away from LIBOR. If your institution has one or more credit products (e.g., credit cards, HELOCs, adjustable-rate mortgage loans) tied to LIBOR, this is a can’t miss session.
Covered Topics
Who Should Attend
Various members of your institution’s lending department, such as loan originators, managers, and support staff, as well as compliance, audit, and risk personnel would all benefit from the information covered during this webinar.
Instructor Bio
As principal of Michael Christians Consulting, LLC, Michael Christians assists financial institutions and organizations across the country with ensuring their compliance programs conform to Federal laws and regulations. He provides counsel relative to current rules, assists with the strategic implementation of upcoming regulatory changes and offers customized education and training services. Christians has more than two decades of experience in the financial services industry with a primary focus on consumer compliance. He obtained his Juris Doctorate from Drake University Law School. He is a member of the Iowa State Bar where he is licensed to practice law.
Registration Options
Live Access, 30 Days OnDemand Playback, Presenter Materials and Handouts $279
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The last year-plus has been a challenging environment to be sure. Almost every lender has had distressed borrowers that need help. What type of help should you provide? And when you make that decision, what compliance implications are involved? Making changes to existing loans is a challenging endeavor. Lenders are facing unprecedented requests to make changes to loans of all types — mortgages, credit cards, consumer loans, small business loans, and so forth. What are the critical compliance implications when dealing with these requests? What types of disclosures must be provided, if any? Must new appraisals be obtained (and how do we do that if appraisers can’t do on-site work?) Must rescission rights be provided?
This webinar will deal with the ins and outs of making changes to loans of all types. We’ll discuss the compliance and legal requirements, operational challenges, and impacts to borrowers, guarantors, and other parties to the loan. We’ll also deal with the threshold question: should the lender grant the borrower’s request in the first place (and if so, what accommodations or changes should be made)?
Covered Topics
Who Should Attend
This webinar is intended to anyone involved in the lending process, including loan officers, processors, closing agents, servicing professionals, compliance officers, auditors, customer service representatives, and senior management, among others.
Instructor Bio
Carl Pry is a Certified Regulatory Compliance Manager (CRCM) and Certified Risk Professional (CRP) who is a Managing Director for Treliant Risk Advisors in Washington, DC. Through his working career, as well as through his experience as a banking attorney and officer, he has provided a variety of regulatory compliance and financial performance services to financial institutions and other clients throughout the country. He has written extensively regarding consumer and commercial compliance, tax, audit, and financial institution legal issues, and is a frequent contributor to and currently serves on the Editorial Advisory Board for the ABA Bank Compliance magazine. He has spoken at scores of banking, compliance, and state bar associations, and has conducted training sessions for financial institutions across the country.
Registration Options
Live Access, 30 Days OnDemand Playback, Presenter Materials and Handouts $279
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The 2022 WBA Agricultural Lending School will be held August 10–12 (with an optional Pre-School workshop on August 9) at the Wisconsin Bankers Association office in Madison. Classes will begin at 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday and conclude at 3:00 p.m. on Friday. This school was developed as an intermediate-level school. Case studies, in-class work, class discussions, and a farm visit are all elements of this school.
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