ICBA Education Seminars and Institutes

This four-part webinar series discusses various parts of a community bank's financial position, and offers suggestions about relative value across the spectrum of the balance sheet.

ICBA membership assists with the cost of an internal bank, employee climate research program. ICBA Preferred Service Provider Avannis administers the ICBA Magazine’s “Best Community Bank to Work For” contests, and is ICBA’s PSP for the voice-of-the customer/employee lane of traffic.

Everyone is talking about AI and how it is changing how people work, live — and bank. This webinar is designed to provide community bankers with a primer on artificial intelligence and the opportunities the future may hold for community banks. Gain a clear understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of this technology and its potential impact.

Whether you are new to ACH processing or are a back-up to the ACH Manager, it’s important to keep your ACH knowledge up to date! Review all things ACH from the operations perspective, including network participants, transaction flow, and the exception handling process. 

AI can be used in many different ways to power your bank offerings and services. Learn how bankers like you are implementing AI at their banks to benefit customers, evolving their user experience and augmenting existing resources to improve efficiency as well as how they are skilling up their teams to maximize the potential value of the technology.

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Discover the key to unlocking the benefits of the Mission Driven Bank Fund, a $500 million private capital investment vehicle established to support FDIC insured MDIs and CDFIs. The fund offers tailored and flexible growth capital through various financial instruments based on your bank’s needs and structure. It also offers technical services to help build organizational capacity. Additionally, it will monitor, measure, and report the impact your mission-driven bank has in the communities you serve.

Before getting started with AI, understand the regulatory environment for banks adopting this new technology. When you implement AI in your business you will have to adhere to new and emerging regulations. Gain insights from the ICBA regulatory experts who have been keeping a watchful eye on the regulatory scene.

Hear from several ag tech solutions providers during this quick-hitting, 2-hour session to learn how they can help your bank keep pace with the competition. See five-minute pitches with five minutes of Q&A from our esteemed banker panel as they help distill the value these partners can bring to your bank.

Managing credit risk is a crucial skill that bankers have improved over the past business cycle. Despite the fact that many credit risk practices are already well-established, there have been some significant recent changes to how we model and report on credit risk.

With the increasing mobility of employees, community banks face challenges similar to organizations in other industries when it comes to safeguarding the personal information of customers and employees.

Join experts David Ruffin, Principal of IntelliCredit and Shawn O’Brien, President of QwickRate, an ICBA Preferred Service Provider as they analyze Q3 results for community banks with special emphasis on liquidity and credit risk.

What do marketing pros need to know? For bank marketers to effectively market a bank product or service you must have knowledge about your bank not just about the product or service you are marketing.

The aftermath of the pandemic, new and emerging technologies, evolving consumer preferences and other market shifts highlight the need for community banks to develop a strategic plan that is fluid.

Don't re-invent the wheel! ICBA membership includes a benefit to build a world-class customer experience (Voice of the customer) program at your bank. $0 setup, no contract (month to month), and you pay-per-complete.

This 90-minute balance sheet-centric event features up to four Stifel fixed income speakers covering current strategic, economic and advocacy opportunities.

ICBA membership assists with the cost of an internal bank, employee climate research program. ICBA Preferred Service Provider Avannis administers the ICBA Magazine’s “Best Community Bank to Work For” contests, and is ICBA’s PSP for the voice-of-the customer/employee lane of traffic.

On October 24th, the banking agencies finalized significant changes to the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA). The final rule is designed to adapt CRA regulations to banking industry changes, improve clarity to regulated institutions, tailor evaluations and data collection to bank size and type, and maintain a unified interagency approach. The final rule takes effect in April 2024 and will require bank compliance by January 1, 2026.

Issue management involves identifying, managing, and tracking vendor issues and taking a strategic approach to resolve the problem. A failure to identify and resolve these vendor issues promptly and efficiently will only cause more problems down the line for your bank.

No credit committee wants to read an epic non-fiction piece of work. The key to effective credit write ups is to focus on the core key risks of the credit. Each credit request begins with a problem: the borrower has a cash shortfall. As a banker your role is to uncover the source of the cash shortfall and understand the characteristics of how the self-liquidating asset will repay the debt.