Webinars

Overview

Webinars

Webinars, offered through Western Bankers Association, are an extensive suite of online webinar training that enable bankers to enjoy flexible and cost-effective education across all critical areas of banking. Webinar topics such as payments, retail banking, compliance, fi­nance, lending, technology, HR, M&A, compensation, directors issues and more, are covered in a comprehensive, and easily accessible format.

Benefits of Webinars

Educational webinars address timely issues facing independent bank professionals. From the convenience of your desk, these 60-minute webinars provide you with a cost-effective way to stay abreast of industry information and trends affecting banks, as well as provide the bank with a low-cost option to effectively train and educate their directors.

Professional Development Specialist

Montana Townsend
(916) 438-4427
mtownsend@westernbankers.com

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Credit Risk Discipline Tools – Implementing 14 Tools for Credit Risk Management

The market and the regulatory community pay close attention to a financial organization’s credit culture because a strong credit culture is critical to the success of credit risk management. Some 14 credit discipline tools help management to implement, maintain, and ensure that credit risk and the credit culture stay on track. Join Dev Strischek as he offers a credit discipline tool checklist and explains how each of the tools works.

Who Should Attend: C-Suite, All Credit Professionals, All Risk Professionals, Bank Director

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Mortgage Lending In and Beyond the COVID Crisis

The COVID crisis has had enormous impact on mortgage lending and servicing. Banks have had to implement federally, state, and locally mandated mortgage forbearance and deferment programs, and foreclosure and eviction moratoria. Meanwhile there are concerns that many borrowers will not be able to meet mortgage obligations once their forbearance periods expire. Even if the COVID emergency abates as vaccines become available, many of the emergency restrictions and programs will remain in place. This program will examine all of the issues arising from these unprecedented events.

Who Should Attend: C-Suite Officers, Credit, Mortgage, and Business Development Professionals, Finance and Accounting Professionals, Compliance, Risk, and Legal Professionals

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The Rollercoaster of 2020 and its impact on the Capital Markets: A Timely Update for Community Banks

The capital markets have, understandably, experienced a rollercoaster this year as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and the presidential election, among other impactful economic news releases and events.  This webinar will provide an opportunity to see and discuss, the impact, the recovery and the potential future effects as it pertains to the following:
Community Bank Capital Raising
Community Bank Mergers and Acquisitions

The 2020 economy has experienced enough ups and downs to last a lifetime, including an unprecedented pandemic, rate decreases and political unrest.  Separately, each can have a profound impact on the economy; however, together these events can cause a significant disruption.  This webinar will help make sense of these changes and its impacts on strategy regarding capital raising, M&A and hedging. 

Who Should Attend: CEO, CFO, President, Bank Director, Board Chairman

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Applying Artificial Intelligence to Small Business

Artificial intelligence technology is enabling new approaches to small business lending, which has historically been challenging for lenders to operate efficiently. In this webinar you will see how AI can automate underwriting and enable real-time portfolio monitoring. In an unprecedented downturn and recovery cycle, traditional approaches to SMB lending are inadequate; luckily new approaches and tools are available.

Who Should Attend: Lending Professionals, Credit & Risk Professionals, Digital Transformation Professionals  

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Digital Transformation for Business and Corporate Banking

Business and corporate banking is about to see a wave of innovation that has already hit the retail banking world, and will bring substantial opportunity as well as increased competition. 

In this webinar, we will provide context to the emerging technologies and explain the latest trends in commercial banking that affect deposits, lending and BSA so you have a framework to assess your digital strategy. 

The world is changing faster than ever. With rapidly growing FinTech and tech companies offering banking services, the next frontier of competition will be on the commercial banking side. Now the time to get ahead of this.

Who Should Attend: C-Suite, Business Bankers, Commercial Lending, Relationships Managers, Head of Compliance/Risk

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Fintech Disruption of the Core IT Obstruction

Fintech will disrupt every aspect of banking IT in the next 5 years, but nobody is giving banks a plan on how to find, assess, procure and implement friendly fintech alternatives. Even worse, few are talking about the market obstruction being executed by the major Core IT suppliers and how this could blow up an institutions’ efforts in executing an innovation and digital transformation plan. 
 
In this webinar, Aaron Silva of Paladin fs will reveal the shocking truth about the business and economic defects hidden deep inside supplier agreements preventing fintech adoption. You will leave with an implementable strategy for gaining the upper hand in their next contract renewal negotiation.

Who Should Attend: C-Suite Executives

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Key Ratio Analysis: Calculating and Interpreting the Numbers Correctly!

Ratios, ratios, and more ratios! What do they really mean? Many financial professionals including bankers use financial ratios on a regular basis. But do they always use the same ratios and more importantly, do they always interpret the ratios in the same manner? Attend this proactive webinar and learn a “five-step” analysis plan including liquidity, activity, leverage, operating performance, and cash flow analysis which will clarify and “unify” this often confusing financial subject. Upon completion of this webinar, the bank employee will be able to better negotiate with their business clients as well as other financial professionals.

Who Should Attend: Commercial Lenders, Credit Analysts, Loan Documentation Specialists, Branch Managers, Assistant Branch Managers, Private Bankers, and Business Development Officers

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The California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 – How does it apply to Financial Institutions?

The passage of Proposition 24 enacted the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (“CPRA”) which revised the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018. The CPRA creates a new agency, the Consumer Privacy Protection Agency, with a $10 Million annual budget to enforce the statute. It also expands the rights of consumers and the corresponding obligations of businesses with regard to the collection, disclosure, maintenance and use of consumer personal information. Excluded from the scope of the CPRA is personal information that is subject to the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (“GLBA”).  It is incumbent on financial institutions to first determine what personal information it collects and maintains that is not subject to the GLBA and then establish procedures to comply with the requirements of the CPRA with respect to such non-GLBA personal information. 

Who Should Attend: CEO, Risk Officer, Chief Operational Officer, Director, Legal