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Article Library 2005-06
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2006
Date Authored: December
2006
Focus: Lending & Credit
- Planning for Succession: Promoting Lenders through the Bank
- Finding the Right Tool for the Job: What’s in Your BSM Toolbox?
- The New CRE Guidelines: Tracking and Reporting the Portfolio
- CRE Concentrations, Views on Risk and Best Practices to Mitigate It
- Key Questions for Your Board Loan Committee
- Achieving Higher Performance through Loan Pricing and Loan Officer Incentives
- Business Development Officers and Credit Training
- Tips for Attracting, Developing and Retaining Top Lending Talent
- Ease Your Deposit Growth & Credit Risk Pain With WIB-Endorsed VIPs: The Reserve and Inmatrix
- Financing the Purchase of a Privately Held Business
- The Heart of Service: Faith-based Lending
- Ex-Im Bank: A Valuable Partner Helping Community Banks Grow Profits and Finance Customers’ Exports
Date Authored: October
2006
Focus: Directors
- WIB-Endorsed VIP Offerings For De Novo Bank Members
- Evolving Board Composition and Compensation Practices
- SEC Disclosure Rules Impact Compensation Committee Work
- Directors’ Obligation to Establish a Well-Functioning Board
- Roadmap for the Maze of Risk Assessments
- Continuing Education For Board of Directors is a Necessity!
- What - Measure Ourselves?
- Managing the Board of a High Performance Institution
- Growing the Bank and Shareholder Value Through Deposits - Directors’ Role in that Process
- D&O Insurance: Key Personal Protection Features for Directors
- Getting Back to Basics: Essentials for Director Board Meetings
- Technology and the $500 Billion Broker/Dealer FDIC-Insured Product
Date Authored: August
2006
Focus: Technology
- Technology Options from A-To-Z with WIB’s Endorsed VIPs
- Six Things the CEO Can Do to Make Technology Work
- Crystal Ball for Commercial Bank Management - Predictive Analysis
- Credit Scoring & Risk
- Crafting a Merchant Capture Strategy to Forge a Competitive Edge
- Unified Threat Management: Protecting your network without wrecking productivity
- Email Security Risks and Considerations: Formulating a Secure Communication Strategy
- Internet Banking Liability - Have you really considered the risk?
- Which Anti-Fraud Tools Will Protect Online Account Holders?
- Developing a Blueprint for Construction Lending Success
- It’s Time to Tame Your Commercial Lending Workflow
- New Trend in Cybercrime
Date Authored: June
2006
Focus: Banks Making a Difference
- From the President: Connecting is Your Culture
- Education & Local School Support
- Fundraising
- General Community Involvement
- Humanitarian Efforts
- Lending & Community Development
- Volunteerism
- WIB Service Corporation Update
Date Authored: April 2006
Focus: Regulatory Environment
- Four New Risk Management Requirements Bankers Must Know
- Bankers Rethink Game Plans for 2006
- New Bank Supervisory Expectations for Commercial Real Estate Credit Concentrations
- Sailing through Your Next Liquidity Exam
- The Cost of Compliance
- FFIEC's Updated Guidance on User Authentication for Internet Banking Services: What you Need to Do Before the End of 2006
- Stress Testing of Commercial Real Estate Portfolios
- The SEC Compensation Disclosure Proposal: What You Need to Know Now!
- Just Say No! Options to Responding to an Adverse Exam
- Risk Management in Commercial Real Estate Lending
- Technology Eases Compliance Burden for Bank of Utah
- WIB-Endorsed VIPs—Marketplace Leaders in Innovation
Date Authored: February
2006
Focus: Mergers & Acquisitions
- CIC Agreements: Peace of Mind for Your Executives and Shareholders
- Bank M&A - Do deals add value?
- Value Planning: A Guide For Maximizing Shareholder Returns
- Community Bank Due Diligence - Looking Through a New Keyhole
- Do Not Forget About Your D&O Policy During a Merger or Acquisition
- Unsolicited Offers: From Cocktail Conversation to Firm Offers When Does an Affirmative Director Duty Arise
- The Top Ten Reasons Why Some Boards Find it Easier to Keep Their Institutions Independent
- Grow Your Commercial Lending Portfolio and Lock in Customer Loyalty with Inmatrix - WIB’s Newest Endorsed “Value & Income Program” (VIP)
- Keys to Successful Integration: Brand, Place and Culture
- Minding the Store: Infrastructure Security During Merger or Acquisition
2005
Date Authored: December
2005
Focus: People - Your Most Important Asset
- Cultural Capital: The New Frontier of Competitive Advantage
- Frontline Staff: Weak Link of Strongest Asset?
- Implementing a Performance-Based Key Employee Supplemental Retirement Program that Works for Your Bank
- How To Handle The “Less-Than-Perfect” Employee
- There Ain’t No ‘I’ In Team…Is There?
- People - Your Most Important Asset: Moving Effectively from Rhetoric to Reality
- Secret to Bank’s Success - People!
- Designing Tangle-Proof Parachutes for Your Change-in-Control Agreements
- How Your Peers Manage their Most Important Asset - People
Date Authored: October
2005
Focus: Directors
- Message from WIB Chairman Robert Daugherty
- Message from WIB President & CEO Nancy Sheppard
- WIB Announces Launch of The WIB Directors Institute on a 7-day Alaskan Cruise
- Interview with FDIC San Francisco Regional Director John F. Carter
- Director Training: What Boards Need to Succeed
- Board of Directors Education - A Critical Issue for Every Bank Board Member and CEO
- The Engagement Letter - Your Contract with Your Independent Auditor
- Director Compensation: A How-To Guide on Avoiding Greed and Embarrassment
- Board Membership: A Serious Commitment
- Modern Board Composition and Compensation
- Structuring Director Compensation and Benefits to Balance Rewards with Responsibility
- Indispensable Technology Directives for Bank Directors
- WIB Service Corp. Report - Chairman Ellen Sas Named One of 25 Most Powerful Women in Banking
Date Authored: August
2005
Focus: Technology
- Technology Digest - Banks: A digest of some of the ways WIB Member Banks are using technology
- Technology Digest - Associates: A digest of some of the technology products offered by WIB Associate Members
- WIB Honored with “Association Excellence Award”
- Does Your Institution Achieve an "Atmosphere of Security"?
- Risk Management for ACH
- Walking the Tightrope: Striking the Balance Between Customer Acquisition and Fraud Prevention
- Stay in the Game: The Distributive Capture Strategy
- Protecting Against the Enemy Within
- Identity Theft: Lessons Learned from Recent High-Profile Hacks
- Is Your Online Banking System Secure?
- Capitalizing on Tangible Results: New Solutions to the Online Lending Challenge
- Safeguarding Documents in Transit: Reducing Risk as well as Cost
Date Authored: June
2005
Focus: Specialized Lending
- A Powerful Strategy For Gaining Market Share and Differentiation
- How to Succeed in Selling Lending Products Without Really Trying
- Issues In Construction Financing
- What Today’s CMBS Market is Telling Bankers About Commercial Real Estate
- The Keys to Small Business Lending: Increase Productivity, Decrease Risk
- A Lease is a Lease is a Lease…Or is it?
- Just What the Doctor Ordered: The Right Prescription for Financing Medical Accounts Receivable
- A Director's Guide to Credit Risk
- WIB Service Corp. Update: Equipment Leasing Services You Can Bank On
- Outsourced Commercial Lending
Date Authored: April
2005
Focus: Compliance
- WIB Launches California’s First Federally Approved Workers’ Comp Group Self-Insurance Program for Banks
- Seven Simple Ways to Uncomplicate Compliance
- Come One, Come All: Free Annual Consumer Credit Reports
- How to Pass an IT Exam
- Community Bankers are Optimistic About 2005
- WIB, WIB Service Corporation Announce New Board Slates for 2005-06
- Surprise! You’ve Violated Regulation B!
- Anti-Money Laundering: Identifying Potential High Risk Customers
- First Interagency Statement on Bank-Owned Life Insurance Provides Clarity for Banks, Reaffirms Existing Best Practices
- Does Your Institution Employ Compliance Panic?
Date Authored: February
2005
Focus: Wealth Management
- How to Start a Trust Department and Capture a Greater Share of Your Customers’ Assets
- Sweeping New Deferred Compensation Legislation
- Adding Intelligence Into Your Loan and Asset Management Process
- WIB Commercial Lenders Institute Launches
- An Effective Wealth Transfer Strategy for the Retail Customer
- Six Keys to Managing a Profitable Trust Department
- Wealth Management: Uncover New Revenue from a Familiar Source
- Help Your Business Customers to Transform Non-performing Accounts Receivables into a Growth Asset
- 8 Myths About Attracting and Keeping the Wealthy Customer
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