ICBA Education Seminars and Institutes

Join us for this 90-minute session as we hear from four bankers and four company founders who together are improving the performance of their banks using emerging agtech solutions. You’ll get a quick understanding of how they partnered to solve a particular challenge, how they deployed the solution and the results that they are experiencing.

Navigating the commercial credit approval process can be overwhelming, leading to delays and miscommunication. This guide helps you establish an effective workflow for the Loan Assistant, benefiting both lending staff and clients. As a vital member of the commercial team, you play a crucial role in managing credit risk.

Does your bank have a social media policy? When was the last time you thought about how your employees’ online activity might affect your business? Discuss good and bad examples of social media use policies, what can and cannot be posted, privacy and the use of social media on company devices. Plus, learn how federal, state, and local laws may affect best practices for your social media policies.

Federal regulators have been particularly vocal over the past 18 months regarding bank-fintech relationships. This session will provide valuable insights into the evolving world of Fintechs, focusing on the latest regulatory guidance and supervisory actions. Participants will explore how recent developments have impacted both banking-as-a-service banks and banks with third party technology relationships. Gain a deeper understanding of these changes and their implications for the future of banking and fintech collaboration.

The Quarterly Regulatory Compliance Webinars deliver the most up-to-date guidance on regulatory compliance, upcoming deadlines, available resources, and more. Offered quarterly, these 60-minute webinars deliver comprehensive information with actionable takeaways.

The current and prospective banking environment has many community banks considering capital raising alternatives. If your bank is in this position, it is important that your board understands all of the available capital raising alternatives. Participants will review various capital raising methods, including bank stock loans, subordinated debt, the sale of common stock, preferred stock sales, and the sale of other equity-like instruments, from both business and legal viewpoints.

Want to meet ICBA? We want to meet you too! We encourage you and your colleagues to join us for an informative and interactive webinar. You’ll learn how to make the most of your new ICBA membership by taking full advantage of all the benefits ICBA has to offer.

This event for the 2024/2025 season will support and enhance the capabilities of community banks and the financial services sector in identifying, mitigating, responding to, and recovering from cyber incidents. This scenario is a cascading event with a cloud service provider cyber event and a regional disaster.

This short meeting will guide community bankers through optimizing CRA activities from start to finish. For more information, please contact Aimee.Leeper@icba.org.

Seniors are being challenged each day by clever cyber criminals that are preying on them in new and different way. Seniors are at risk through schemes like “pig butchering” and ICBA is working to find new ways to help monitor and mitigate bad actors to reduce senior fraud.

Join ICBA experts for a quarterly update on industry news and highlights. The 75-minute briefing will include details about regulations and congressional events from inside the Capital Beltway and across the U.S. We want to hear from you; participants are encouraged to bring questions to the briefing as the ICBA experts will answer questions from community bankers during the Q&A session.

Data is abundant in banking, but effectively leveraging it poses a significant challenge for bank managers. While better data can lead to improved insights, which support better decision-making, many find it difficult to utilize the resources at their disposal.

Have you taken the necessary steps to prepare for the implementation of ISO 20022? The Federal Reserve Financial Services will implement the ISO 20022 message format for the Fedwire Funds Service on March 10, 2025. To process wires successfully, all banks must be compliant with the new format. This implementation requires coordination between banks and core providers. Speakers from the Federal Reserve will lead this webinar and explain the necessary actions to ensure a successful transition for your bank.

Review the top regulatory issues that banks across the country are currently encountering, with predictions on the issues that regulators are most likely to focus on in 2025.  The presentation will also provide examples of best practices that boards of directors and management teams can implement to prevent and/or remediate regulatory concerns in 2025.

In the current environment of scarce deposits and stiff competition for loans, we need a solid plan to build our portfolios. Learn how your bank can differentiate itself by using its credit policy and bank brand to target prospects to best fit its culture. Once we know the target market, what approaches produce the best return, we can calculate your potential success rate. When you meet with a prospect, making a strong impression is key. Let’s talk about how to prepare, what questions to ask, how to ask them, and the goal of the meeting. Don’t forget—managing your existing clients is just as important as bringing in new business. The key is solving your clients’ problems and adding value so they will never consider talking to a competing banker.

This informative session explores the latest updates to the Nacha ACH Rules. Attendees can expect an in-depth review of recent and upcoming changes to the Nacha Operating Rules, including:

This short meeting will guide community bankers through optimizing CRA activities from start to finish.

As financial scams continue to evolve, raising awareness and equipping individuals with the knowledge to protect themselves is crucial to reducing their risk and preventing financial loss.