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Auditing

Stay connected with the community banking industry year-round through ICBA and find all the auditing resources, news, and events all in one place

Education

Grow Your Career, Stay Up to Date.

Auditing Training through Community Banker University

Training more than 120,000 community bankers annually, ICBA’s Community Banker University helps you maintain the highest professional standards in banking through a vast curriculum of dynamic educational offerings.

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Resources & Bank Policies

Earn Online Certificates

  • Audit Certificate Program 
  • Compliance Certificate Program

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Earn Your Professional Certification & Badge

Certified Community Bank Internal Auditor (CCBIA) 

This program is designed to provide tools and step-by-step procedures to establish and maintain an effective internal audit function within a community bank. Areas covered include: auditing basics, internal auditing working papers, auditing liabilities and other activities, auditing assets and bank information systems auditing. 

Risk Management Certification (CCBRS)

This new certification program focuses on strategies surrounding bank governance, credit risk, interest rate risk, liquidity risk, operational risk, compliance risk, and legal risk. The program includes comprehensive dialogue that brings all risk elements together to reveal the necessary components of a successful enterprise risk management (ERM) framework.

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Online Training Highlights for Auditors

Our online training plans contain nearly 300 online courses including the following auditing course highlights:

  • Auditing a Community Bank Trust Department
  • Auditing Assets
  • Auditing Liabilities and Other Activities
  • Auditing: The Basics
  • Bank Information System Auditing
  • Internal Auditing Working Papers
  • Regulatory Accounting and Operational Auditing
  • Understanding Fraud for Internal Auditors

Your bank can explore the full access plans or if your bank has already signed up, login here.

Or a bundle of online courses on Bank Compliance, Business Skills and Workplace Compliance.

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Find Answers in the Compliance Vault

The Compliance Vault is a reliable search tool that helps you find answers to your regulatory compliance questions, with access to over 2,500 Q&As, select eLearning courses, and documents. This is complimentary to all ICBA members.

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Develop Your Leadership Skills

No matter what role you hold at the bank, leadership skills are important to hone and develop. Find leadership development opportunities through our Leadership Academy and individual leadership training courses.

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Advocacy

Be Heard, Elevate & Promote the Industry

Be Heard

Direct grassroots advocacy is essential to promoting federal policies that support community banking – and ultimately impact your role at the bank. Our Be Heard grassroots action center offers a variety of tools to help you amplify your voice with targeted outreach to federal policymakers. 

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You are Invited to Capital Summit

Every year, community bankers are invited to attend the complementary ICBA Capital Summit.

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Virtual Advocacy Toolkit

Just like everything else, lobbying is a skill. This toolkit makes it easy to learn the best way to communicate with and engage policymakers in this virtual environment.  No matter what role you have at the bank, YOU can support community banks and make an impact.

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Solutions

Find Innovative Products and Services

ICBA Solutions Directory

Finding the right solutions for your bank doesn’t have to be hard. Our Solutions Directory features products and services designed to help your bank streamline operations, increase productivity and profitability, and better serve your customers in today’s competitive marketplace. This directory also includes ICBA Preferred Service Providers.

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ICBA ThinkTECH Network

Available exclusively to ICBA members, this curated directory features emerging financial technology companies that strategically partner with community banks. You can easily find fintech companies along with key information including core processor compatibility and more technology ventures.

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Interested in Innovation? Explore ICBA ThinkTECH Resources

We offer access to cutting-edge financial technology, which is the driving force behind industry innovation. With a wide range of fintech education, partnerships, and vetted solutions, you have the resources you need to cultivate the high-tech, high-touch edge that will help you thrive in your marketplace.

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Sign up to receive email messages from ICBA. Questions? Contact ICBA. Some newsletters, such as NewsWatch TODAY and Payments News & Notes, are exclusive to ICBA members. Learn about the benefits to ICBA membership.

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ICBA is dedicated exclusively to representing the interests of the community banking industry and its membership through effective advocacy, best-in-class education, and high-quality products and services.

Visit our Newsroom

ICBA’s free daily email news bulletin for ICBA members. Distributed by e-mail Monday–Friday mornings, the bulletin highlights breaking industry news and information. Contact ICBA NewsWatch Today editors.

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