The course is intended for all examiners actively evaluating or supervising the safety and soundness of a bank's commercial loan portfolio. All participants will be required to complete and submit a pre-class exercise that will be reviewed by the instructor and returned prior to the session.

This new instructor-led, 6-week online course, is designed for inexperienced examiners or those seeking formal training in MSB examination procedures and techniques. The curriculum includes a comprehensive approach to MSB examinations and includes the MSB industry, financial characteristics and evaluations, internal controls and auditing, legal and compliance (BSA/AML), systems and technology, and management. The course is led by an experienced state bank regulator. Participants will be expected to complete weekly assignments, participate in threaded conversations and complete a comprehensive MSB examination case study. Students can expect to spend from six to eight hours a week on the course.

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If you have any questions, please email Cecelia Smith or call her at 202-728-5717.

Location: Radisson Hotel Bismarck

Draft Agenda

Increased profitability correlates directly to a financial institution's management of its assets and liabilities. Users will learn how to establish financial goals, determine fundamental trade-offs between risks and returns, understand the link between GAP and net interest margin, determine conditions that affect market value of stockholders' equity, factors that make assets and liabilities price sensitive, and managing capital and liquidity risk. A great employee development course for current and future bank management.

This seminar is being held at the Coeur d'Alene Resort. The room rates are $229 deluxe/$289 premier (plus tax, currently 13%). To make reservations, please call 800-688-5253. The cut-off date for these special rates is August 6, 2008.

In order to leave adequate time to complete the pre-residence session assignments, please register for this course no later than August 8, 2008.

There will be an orientation WEBcast on Monday, June 30, 2008, three self-paced online courses to review before and three after the resident session, in addition to a series of on-the-job applications. Please register for this course no later than Friday, June 27, 2008.

This course builds your knowledge of proper analytical techniques for evaluating the financial condition of a financial institution. Subjects include an in-depth look into the Uniform Bank Financial Report, operating ratio analysis, capital components, return on assets, establishing net interest margin, rate sensitivity, asset and liability liquidity sources, and many more financial components utilized in conducting a bank financial analysis. The software even includes a case study to test your knowledge of proper analytical techniques. A complete list of the included lessons appears below. This course is also available on CD-ROM.

Think you have a good handle on the basics of asset/liability management, or you're ready to take the next step? Learn the income-based and wealth-based approach to asset/liability management, gap management of interest rate risk, how to conduct a static gap analysis, calculating asset/liability valuation and market risk, regulation of interest rate risk using the Federal Reserve System's IRR model, and explore hedging with derivative securities.

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This course is designed to give you a working knowledge of the examination process of a financial institution's information processing systems housed within the institution or provided by third party vendors. We will use various resources and materials which have been developed, implemented and refined over many years by federal and state regulatory agencies. Assignments will include reading regulatory resource material; IT examination manuals and forms; and real bank IT examination workpapers and results. This course will focus on the FFIEC Information Technology Risk Management Program, using the IT Officer's Questionnaire, accompanying workprogram, IT Examination Handbook, and other resources.

This course is a MUST for financial institution professionals who use appraisal reports in their job assignments. These instructions will provide basic and generic appraisal information about the Interagency Guidelines, Appraisal Rules, Uniform Standards Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP), appraisal reports, appraisal valuation process, concepts of value, and the three approaches to value (cost, direct sales comparison, and income capitalization).

This new instructor-led, 6-week online course, is designed for inexperienced examiners or those seeking formal training in MSB examination procedures and techniques. The curriculum includes a comprehensive approach to MSB examinations and includes the MSB industry, financial characteristics and evaluations, internal controls and auditing, legal and compliance (BSA/AML), systems and technology, and management. The course is led by an experienced state bank regulator. Participants will be expected to complete weekly assignments, participate in threaded conversations and complete a comprehensive MSB examination case study. Students can expect to spend from six to eight hours a week on the course.

The School is open to industry personnel who might benefit from this curriculum including compliance managers, quality control managers, internal auditors, and similar personnel.

The location is the Omni Tucson National Resort, Tucson, AZ.

About Rancho Bernardo Inn, 17550 Bernardo Oaks Drive, San Diego, California.