WASHINGTON,
DC -- The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency will host workshops for
national community bank directors at the Fairmont Hotel, Scottsdale, Ariz., on
March 28-30.
The
workshops provide practical information that expands bank directors' skills and
understanding of issues facing their banks.
This year's workshops cover risk assessment, credit risk, and compliance
risk.
Workshops
cost $65 each. Attendees receive
pre-course reading and course materials, an OCC telephone seminar CD, a
community bank supervision handbook, other supervisory material, a continental
breakfast and lunch. Workshops are
limited to the first 50 registrants and are geared primarily to outside
directors of national community banks with assets of less than $1 billion. Management directors may also find the
workshop beneficial.
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The Office of the
Comptroller of the Currency was created by Congress to charter national banks,
to oversee a nationwide system of banking institutions, and to assure that
national banks are safe and sound, competitive and profitable, and capable of
serving in the best possible manner the banking needs of their customers.