Learn what employee training is required by regulation, see what training examiners expect, and receive ideas to grow your employees’ knowledge and skills. With 2019 fast approaching this is the optimal time to ensure that you have a training strategy in place to achieve your community bank’s organizational goals for the new year.

Read about compensation packages and career development. Also inside: upcoming updates to Elder Financial Abuse.

Read about facts about e-learning, long-term plan to enhance the service, upcoming updates, and recent updates, such as Reg P, Fair Lending, and Elder Financial Abuse.

Major updates to the Online Training Subscription including a revamp of RegZ courses. Read more about the changes and enhancements for October.

Most community bank training programs follow the calendar year, so if you have not completed your annual regulatory training requirements, there are only four months left to do so.

ICBA’s Community Banker University is pleased to release nine updated bank security courses. The course titles are the same, but the content has been updated and the courses have been converted into the new look and functionality as the BSA courses were last month.

ICBA’s Community Banker University is pleased to present six new Bank Secrecy Act courses. The new course content is written specifically for various groups or job functions within the bank.

On May 24, the Economic Growth, and Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act (S. 2155) was signed into law. This new law gives community banks with assets of less than $10 billion regulatory relief in several areas including qualified mortgage safe harbor from the ability-to-repay, appraisal relief in rural areas, HMDA adjustments to data collection, and escrow requirements.

On March 14, the Senate passed the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act (S. 2155). The bill is now in the hands of the U.S. House of Representatives. ICBA staff and community bankers across the country are working diligently with lawmakers to get this bill passed and onto the desk of the president to sign into law.

​Thank you to all of those who stopped by the ICBA Community Banker University booth to drop off your “pink card” and chat with us. During our time at the Expo hall, we were able to show what our Online Training system looks like and demonstrate the ease of use to those whom have not yet seen it by utilizing giant touch screens.