Board of Directors for Banks

This course explains the board’s role in overseeing the institution’s AML program, focusing on governance expectations, examination risk, and accountability rather than operational controls. Directors learn how regulators assess AML oversight, escalation, and remediation at the board level. 

Designed for board and senior leaders, this course covers governance responsibilities related to BSA compliance, including risk oversight, reporting, and response to examination findings. Emphasis is placed on how weak oversight drives regulatory criticism. 

This course explains the governance principles behind effective delegation, helping boards understand how authority, accountability, and oversight intersect. Directors learn how improper delegation can create compliance, operational, and fiduciary risk. 

Designed for board members and senior leaders, this course focuses on governance oversight of institutional performance, including risk, compliance, and strategic outcomes. Emphasis is placed on effective inquiry, trend analysis, and accountability rather than operational management. 

This course provides a governance-level overview of CRA, helping directors understand oversight expectations, examination risk, and the board’s role in aligning CRA performance with institutional strategy and community impact. 

Directors gain a practical understanding of CMS oversight, including how regulators evaluate governance effectiveness, reporting quality, and accountability. The course emphasizes the board’s role in ensuring compliance issues are identified, escalated, and sustainably remediated. 

This course is designed to provide directors and senior leaders with a governance-focused understanding of elder financial abuse risk. Rather than concentrating on front-line indicators or case management, the course emphasizes board accountability, escalation effectiveness, compliance management system (CMS) integration, and the governance breakdowns that most often lead to regulatory criticism. Participants will learn how regulators evaluate board oversight and what effective governance looks like in practice. 

This course is designed to provide directors and senior leaders with a governance-focused understanding of fair lending oversight. Rather than emphasizing legal technicalities or operational mechanics, the course focuses on board accountability, examination expectations, the use of data in identifying risk, the influence of tone and culture, and the governance breakdowns that most often lead to regulatory criticism or enforcement actions. 

This course is designed to provide directors and senior leaders with a governance-focused understanding of flood insurance risk. Rather than concentrating on technical determinations or loan-level procedures, the course emphasizes board accountability, examination expectations, consistency across products and systems, vendor and NFIP reliance, and the oversight failures that most often lead to repeat violations and enforcement actions.  

This course provides directors and senior leaders with a governance-focused understanding of Regulation O oversight. Rather than emphasizing technical limits or underwriting mechanics, the course concentrates on board accountability, examiner expectations, insider lending risk patterns, governance drift around limits and exceptions, and the fiduciary responsibilities that underpin effective oversight.

This course is designed to provide directors and senior leaders with a governance-focused understanding of the compliance examination process. Rather than concentrating on examiner logistics or document production, the course emphasizes board accountability, regulatory expectations, information flow and escalation, examination outcomes, and the oversight failures that most often lead to repeat findings or enforcement action. 

This course provides directors and senior leaders with a governance-focused understanding of the Security of Customer Information Guidelines issued under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA). Rather than emphasizing technical safeguards or system configurations, the course focuses on board oversight responsibilities, institutional risk, and how information security integrates with the compliance management system (CMS) and enterprise risk management.

While management and staff are responsible for identifying covered borrowers and applying specific protections, boards of directors and senior management are accountable for ensuring that policies, systems, training, and oversight are sufficient to comply with these laws. This course provides a governance-focused overview of SCRA and MLA requirements, emphasizing board responsibilities, institutional risk, and oversight expectations rather than operational execution.

Regulators expect boards of directors and senior management to set the tone for unfair, deceptive, or abusive acts or practices (UDAAP) compliance by fostering a culture that prioritizes fairness, transparency, and accountability. This course provides directors and senior leaders with a governance-focused understanding of UDAAP, emphasizing oversight responsibilities, risk assessment, and integration into the compliance management system (CMS).