Publications & Resources

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• Prudent CRE Loan Workouts: A Best-Practice Approach
• Regulatory Exams – What You Need to Know to Really Prepare
• Time to Update Your Contingency Funding Plan
• How to Mobilize the Board to Exceed Regulatory Requirements
• The Future of Cloud Computing Regulation
• Operating within the New Liquidity Reality
• Expect the Unexpected: Navigating Today’s and Tomorrow’s Regulatory Landscape
• Understanding the Ins and Outs of Community Bank Enforcement Actions
• Determining Your "True" Interest Rate Risk Exposure
• WIB Service Corporation Report: WIB Endorsed VIPs: New Twists on Serving Customers and Helping Your Community Banks

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• Are You Getting Enough Return On Your Payroll Spend?
• How to Build a Better Team – 10 Ideas
• Character-Driven Performance for the 21st Century Community Bank
• Gen Y in Community Banking
• Developing a “Best Place” vs. “Pretty Good” Work Initiative
• Evaluating Management: Helping the Board With Job #1
• Engage Your Staff & Optimize Your Branch Performance
• Incentive Programs for the New Decade
• WIB Service Corporation Report: Get Reg E Compliance & Generate New Fee Income

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• How Does Your Branch Totem Pole Stack Up? Ranking Branch Performance to Improve Results
• Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) – How to (finally) Get Value Out of all of Your Efforts
• Navigating the Changing Tides Impacting Fee Income
• Create a Contingency Funding Plan that Prepares the Bank for the Road Ahead
• New Look for the Community Bank
• The New Community Bank: Open Anytime, Anywhere
• Sustainability: The Ability to Endure Without Giving Way or Yielding
• Branch of the Future
• Community Banks perfectly poised to be “Close To Home” Leaders 
• WIB Service Corporation Report: A New Decade of Opportunity with New WIB-Endorsed “Value & Income Programs”

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• Don’t Turn Your Asset into a Liability! If You Own it Insure it!
• Disposition Strategies for REO or Distressed Subdivision Assets
• Identifying Tomorrow’s Problem Loans
• Tax Considerations for Troubled Assets
• Building a Solid Forbearance Arrangement
• OREO Assets: Best Practices for Pre-Foreclosure Due Diligence
• Risk Management and Transition Strategies for OREO Assets
• Disclosures Related to the Allowance for Loan Losses  to Significantly Increase
• ALLL: How to Know When You Have Enough
• WIB Service Corp. Update: Greater Than the Sum of the Parts – Leveraging VIP Synergies (Part 2)

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• Regulatory Enforcement Actions Climb in WIB States 
• Current Regulatory Considerations for Bank Directors 
• The Importance of Extended D&O Reporting 
• Liquidity Risk Management: A Survival Strategy for the "Liquidity is King" Mantra 
• Board Effectiveness & the Role of a Board Evaluation 
• Planning to Performance 
• Executive Compensation: One Size Does Not Fit All in the New Community Bank Economy
• Building a Strong Dashboard for the Board of Directors
• Strategic Planning for an Uncertain Environment 
• Getting Loan Risk Grading Right 

• WIB Service Corporation Report - More Than the Sum of the Parts: Leveraging the Synergies of Endorsed “Best of Breed” VIPs

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• Surviving the Avalanche of New Compliance Mandates 
• Preparing for a Data Breach Before it Happens
• Defending Against the Savvy and the Sneaky: Protecting Your Network From the Con Artist
• Seven Often-Overlooked Information Security Issues
• Security 101: Building a Computer Security Incident Response Plan (CSIRP) for Banks
• Top 5 Mistakes in Software/IT Contracts
• Virtualization Takes Center Stage – How Your Financial Institution Can Benefit From This Cost Saving Technology
• Plan a Better Disaster: Getting a Handle on Planning and Recovery
• Using Switch Kits to Onboard New Customers and Strengthen Customer Loyalty
• The Competitive Advantage:  Next Generation Online Account Opening Systems
• WIB Service Corporation Report: Intrasweep Launches New Demand Deposit Marketplace (DDM) Program – Increases FDIC Insurance Coverage for WIB Banks’ Customers

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• Third-Party Systems Can Help When Implementing Your Enterprise Risk Management Program
• Liquidity Management – An Evolving Perspective
• Don’t Put Customer Relationships at Risk by Raising Fees
• Steps to Managing Third Party Risk and Compliance
• Why Is Risk Such a Bad Thing?
• Developing a Vendor Management Program for Today’s Challenging Marketplace
• Fine-Tuning Credit Risk
• This Year’s Battle over Mark-to-Market Versus Mark-to-Model Accounting Was Worth the Fight
• WIB Service Corp Report: WIB Partners with uMonitor to Offer State-of-the-Art Online Account Opening and Funding Services to Community Banks

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• Keeping Good Employees in Today’s Marketplace
• Asset Appreciation: Front Line Employees Hold the Secret to Balancing Customer Loyalty and Profitability 
• How to Keep Employees Happy…on a Shoestring Budget
• Best Practices in Lender Incentive Programs
• Getting the Best Results from an Executive Search
• The Frightened Leader
• The Enlightened Control Freak: How to Lead So Your Team Will Love, Follow and Work Like Crazy for You Even in These Wild and Tough Economic Times
• Why Real, Live Bankers Still Matter
• Don’t Train – Educate!
• WIB Service Corp Report: Protect Your Bank From The Heartland Heartburn with Bank Card Protector Insurance 

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• Managing Your Branch Network Capital
• The Troubled Asset Relief Program and Its Effect on Executive Compensation
• Profitable Liquidity. Yes, You Can
• TARP Money or Not, Secondary Offerings Belong in Your Plan
• Dealing with a Hard Insurance Market
• Private Equity - Another Capital Option
• Strengthening Your Bank’s Bottom Line by Adapting to Difficult Times
• Is BOLI The Way To Go?
• Non-Performing Assets: The Keep Versus Sell Decision
• WIB Service Corporation Welcomes New Endorsed VIP Partners: Deluxe Financial Services & Diligent Boardbooks

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• The Regulatory Outlook for Brokered Deposits
• Creating a Contingency Funding Plan
• Staying Liquid in a Time Regulatory Sea Change
• Managing Liquidity and Funding During a Recession
• Turbocharging Account Acquisition: Proven Strategies Capitalize on New Technologies
• Managing Liquidity in a Volatile Rate Environment
• FDIC-Insured Sweep Accounts Offer More Coverage, Net Deposits
• Deposit Growth and Branch Network Effectiveness

• WIB Service Corp. Update: Recycling Cash - Keep Your Local Economy Vibrant with Intrasweep's On-Balance-Sheet Sweep Program