ICBA Education Seminars and Institutes

ICBA Education offers many events throughout the year that offer CPE credits. See below for upcoming events and program descriptions.

Strategic Succession: Preparing Your Community Bank for Leadership Changes

Mar 11, 2025 | lab
Many community banks are struggling to implement a strong succession plan that will carry them into the future. Explore how succession planning fits into your talent management program and discover strategies to integrate it with your company’s strategic plan.

Developing Resiliency in Your Team

Mar 11, 2025 | lab
Discover effective ways to build resilience in your team through emotional intelligence and collaboration. Developing a resilient team in the banking industry requires that leaders value emotional intelligence while promoting collaboration.

Succession Management for Leadership, Board, and Shareholders

Mar 11, 2025 | lab
Power your bank’s potential with succession strategies at every level. We will discuss board succession and how to secure the right talent on your board.

New Rules, Lawsuits, and AI: Managing Change Effectively

Mar 11, 2025 | lab
New rules keep coming and many – including some already in effect – are facing legal challenges. Meanwhile, artificial intelligence is upending how the world does business. What’s a compliance officer to do?

Loans to Liquidity: Innovative Approaches to Boost Deposits While Lowering Delinquency

Mar 11, 2025 | lab
In a financial landscape where liquidity demands continue to dominate discussions, the pressure on lenders to grow deposits and improve margins is ever-increasing. But what if the key to solving these challenges lies within the very loans already on your books?

Industry Trends and Strategies Toward Combatting Margin Pressure

Mar 11, 2025 | lab
In the wake of the multi-year efforts to bring down inflation, community banks face significant pressures related to maintaining liquidity, mitigating higher funding costs, and combatting margin compression.

Leveraging Core Data Insights to Grow Deposits, Revenues, and Customer Relationships

Mar 11, 2025 | lab
Discover how the bank's consumer and business client data can be leveraged to gain a deeper understanding of customer needs, product competition, and be used to identify strategic growth opportunities.

Marketing Roundtable

Mar 11, 2025 | roundtable
Is your bank struggling to overcome marketing challenges, manage vast amounts of data, or make a mark in a crowded market?

Family-Owned Bank Roundtable

Mar 11, 2025 | roundtable
Family-owned banks possess unique strengths and challenges that require thoughtful strategies.

Mutual & Thrift Roundtable

Mar 11, 2025 | roundtable
Mutual and thrift institutions face specific challenges in today’s banking landscape.

Engage With the Experts: Banker Roundtable

Mar 11, 2025 | roundtable
Designed exclusively for community bankers, this roundtable brings you together with peers and industry leaders to address topics relevant to your institution.

Large Community Bank Roundtable

Mar 11, 2025 | roundtable
Community banks with assets over $1 billion encounter distinct challenges that require specialized solutions.

ICBA LIVE 2025

Mar 11, 2025 | Major Events
It's time to get ready for ICBA LIVE 2025 in Nashville, March 11-14. Celebrate the unique rhythm of community banking at ICBA LIVE, the world’s largest gathering of community bankers, where amplified connections and ideas await.

Improving Your Skills as a Credit Analyst

Mar 19, 2025 | Webinar | ICBA Education | Lending
Managing credit risk effectively is a critical challenge for credit analysts, but it goes beyond number-crunching and long narratives. This session will showcase how credit analysts can partner with lending teams to identify key risks and manage them efficiently. You will also identify strategies for pinpointing the most critical risks in a credit, writing effective credit memos, and presenting confidently in a credit committee. By the end, you’ll understand how to collaborate with your lending staff to ensure the loans benefit both the bank and the borrower.

All Things Taxes

Mar 20, 2025 | Webinar | Director | Executive Leadership/C-Suite | ICBA Education
Banks experience challenges in raising capital, ensuring shareholder liquidity, and managing board and ownership succession. These challenges are compounded by volatile tax laws, including the potential sunset of the Tax Cut and Jobs Act of 2017. Discuss alternative strategies for such banks to maximize shareholder value, definitively decide S versus C as well as to create paths for ownership continuity.

RDC Rules and Regulations

Mar 25, 2025 | Webinar | Compliance | Frontline | ICBA Education | Operations
Understanding the complex rules and regulations governing Remote Deposit Capture (RDC) can be challenging for financial professionals. This session will focus on the latest RDC regulations, providing a comprehensive understanding of various related topics. These include image exchange rules, as well as agreements from the Federal Reserve, ECCHO, and Nacha. This session will also cover check clearing laws and relevant regulations, such as Regs CC, J, and E, along with UCC Articles 3 & 4. Additionally, the role of legal agreements will be addressed, ensuring attendees are well-informed on all aspects of RDC compliance.