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Hot Topic webinars are designed to address the latest industry topics for independent bankers. From the convenience of your desk, these 90-minute webinars provide you with a cost-effective way to keep abreast of industry trends without incurring the travel time and expense it takes to be away from the office. Each webinar focuses on either new strategies, technologies or best practices and techniques to help move your bank forward.

All registrants receive a toll-free number and web link to access the webinar. All webinars include an interactive question and answer period with the presenters and each registrant will receive a copy of the presentation, and any other presentation materials presented, upon the completion of the webinar.

As an added benefit, all past webinars are available for purchase. The playback is a media file that contains the live recorded presentation with audio.  Use the playback to present to other members of your staff or use for internal training purposes. It is also perfect for those interested in the topic but unable to attend.

Should you have any questions or would like more information, please do not hesitate to contact us at info@wib.org or by phone at (415) 352-2323.

Upcoming Webinars

  • December 8: Significant Accounting Changes Are Coming Whether We Like It or Not | Click for details
  • December 9: Small Business Lending Fund – TARP Warmed Over or Something New? | Click for details
  • January 14: Regulatory Round-Up – 2010 in Review & 2011 Outlook | Click for details

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December 8: Significant Accounting Changes Are Coming Whether We Like It or Not

Presented by:  Peter G. Wiese, CPA, Partner, Perry-Smith LLP

START TIME:  10:00 am Pacific
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Whoever said nothing exciting happens in accounting?  Recent and anticipated Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) activity is on pace to double the levels experienced following the bust of the dot-com bubble. 

While Congress and the PCAOB was busy creating a “permanent” deferral of the Sarbanes-Oxley requirements for many public filers, FASB has a litany of new and proposed accounting standards.  Many of these standards have and will continue to impact you financial reporting process and the way you do business.  There is no time like the present to ensure that your financial team is ready to meet the challenges of these requirements head-on.

  • Fair value – business combinations, financial instruments, and hierarchy identification
  • New credit quality disclosure requirements – disclosure transparency on steroids
  • Troubled debt restructuring (TDR) – Do you know there is a newly proposed definition of a TDR?
  • Leases – International accounting standards and their impact on your balance sheet
  • Determining credit impairment (incurred versus expected loss model)

This webinar will help you prepare for these new and anticipated requirements as well as provide practical advice regarding implementation and expectations of your independent auditor.

Who should attend
 CEO, CFO, Controller/Finance, Auditor/CPA

About the speaker
Peter Wiese is considered a financial services industry expert and performs attestation and advisory services for public companies to include; SEC regulatory and registration filings, consultations on accounting and reporting matters, and implementation and audit of internal controls over financial reporting in accordance with Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. He provides audit and assurance services for financial institutions ranging in size from de novo to over $2 billion in assets. Services include performing audits and applying GAAP to a variety of matters including mergers and acquisitions, fair value measurement, share-based compensation programs, impairment and other technical issues. He routinely provides Director and CFO education through meetings and regional conferences in affiliation with Western Independent Bankers.

December 9: Small Business Lending Fund – TARP Warmed Over or Something New? 

Presented by:  Noel M. Gruber, Counsel, BuckleySandler LLP

START TIME:  10:00 am Pacific
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This webinar focuses on the latest developments in the new Small Business Lending Fund investment program, designed to spur small business lending by community banks through Treasury investments in bank or bank holding company preferred stock on potentially bargain terms. Is it just TARP in a new wrapper, and should it matter to you? 

Hear the details and expert analysis you need in order to decide whether your bank can qualify for the Treasury investment, how to position your bank to qualify for the investment, and whether your bank should apply for and accept the investment.

Also hear about new statutory and regulatory restrictions on trust preferred securities and developments in bank capital market conditions, including the latest developments in the market for discounted redemption or exchange of trust preferred or TARP securities. 

Has your bank really exhausted all potential sources of capital? Find out by participating in this webinar.

About the speaker
Noel M. Gruber is a Counsel in the Washington, DC office of BuckleySandler LLP. He represents financial institutions throughout the United States on securities, corporate, transactional, and regulatory matters. He has extensive experience in counseling financial institutions in matters pivotal to an institution's course, such as mergers, acquisitions, tender offers, securities offerings, proxy contests and other efforts to change management or policy, and regulatory examination matters and enforcement actions, as well as more routine matters, such as periodic reporting and securities disclosure, Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance, compliance with corporate governance listing requirements of the national securities exchanges, holding company formations, regulatory reporting and applications, executive compensation arrangements, employment agreements, voting agreements, and new product and line of business development. Gruber frequently comments on proposed SEC and bank regulatory rules that can have a significant impact on the banking industry and publicly reporting companies, and keeps clients apprised of legal and Washington regulatory developments affecting client businesses.

Who should attend
President/CEO, Chairman, CFO, Controller, Corporate Counsel, Director

January 14: Regulatory Round-Up – 2010 in Review & 2011 Outlook

Presented by: Pamela J. Perdue, CRCM, Director of Compliance Services, My Compliance Info

START TIME: 10:00 am Pacific
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Head swimming with new requirements? Need reliable answers?  Just what you need to be up-to-speed, these webinars cover the changing regulatory landscape during each quarter, and what's coming in the next quarter! Learn what you must do and when as we update you on the status of various legislation affecting banks. Our presenter will break it down and update you on key regulations affecting your commercial banks’ deposits and loans. 

If you haven’t been able to attend any of the 2010 quarterly calls – you don’t want to miss this one where we review what changed in 2010 and what’s on the horizon in 2011!

About the speaker
Pamela Perdue is a nationally recognized regulatory expert with over 20 years of experience in consumer compliance and Bank Secrecy Act/anti-money laundering regulations. Prior to forming My Compliance Info, she was part of the executive team of Compliance Coach, Inc., a leading provider of compliance solutions. As the vice president of content, Perdue designed and implemented risk management learning programs and software that enhanced the performance of financial institutions, regulatory compliance and audit professionals. Before that, she was a senior examiner with the Federal Reserve, acting as examiner-in-charge on a wide variety of bank compliance examinations, and acting as co-chair of the Work paper Improvement Project which led to the development of electronic examination work papers.  Perdue specializes in the remediation of troubled compliance programs after enforcement actions, and routinely speaks at banking conferences, symposia and compliance schools.

Registration Fees:

Must be paid by credit card only.

 Webinar Only
WIB Member (Bank and Associate) $195
Nonmember Bank $275
New Member Bank* $145
Additional Attendees (WIB Member & De Novo Bank Member) $95
Additional Attendees (Nonmember Bank) $175
 Webinar & Playback File
WIB Member (Bank and Associate) $225
Nonmember Bank $310
New Bank Member* $175
Additional Attendees (WIB Member & De Novo Bank Member) $95
 Playback File Only
WIB Member (Bank and Associate) & De Novo Member Bank $125
Nonmember Bank $200
 Cancellation Fee  $50

*New Bank is defined as banks in organization, groups in formation or WIB bank members opened seven years or less from the date of this program.

Cancellation Policy:

We regret that cancellations received 3 days or less from the webinar date will not receive a refund.