Banking Conferences and Events

September 13-14, 2012	Stress Testing Model Symposium A symposium on best practices and challenges as they relate to stress testing.
June 8, 2012	Business Opportunities in Community Development Lending — Vermont
April 25, 2012	Meet the Lenders for Maine Small Businesses
March 30, 2012	Business Opportunities in Community Development Lending—New Hampshire For community bankers, community development experts, nonprofit lenders and municipal government representatives.

November 18, 2011	Business Opportunities in Community Development Lending Learn about business opportunities in community development lending. Bankers, development experts and nonprofit leaders will discuss the challenges and successes of community development lending from their different perspectives.
October - November, 2011	Fall 2011 Reserve Account Management and Payment System Risk Seminars These educational seminars are designed to provide attendees with (1) the principles and concepts necessary to manage their Federal Reserve accounts effectively and (2) essential information on Payment System Risk (PSR) and (3) an overview of 2900 Reporting.
November 8, 2011	2011 Regional & Community Bankers Conference The conference provided insight on current industry issues affecting New England Regional and Community banks.
June 22, 2011	FedExchange New Hampshire Updates on economic research, consumer compliance, payments law for senior executives of banks, thrifts and credit unions
April 13, 2011	Mobile Banking & Payments Get information from mobile industry insiders and identify ways to enhance mobile banking services.
Feburary 25, 2011	Small Business Lending Forum for Community Banks, Thrifts, and Credit Unions Please join CEOs, presidents, chief credit officers and small business lenders from banks, thrifts and credit unions to discuss challenges and opportunities for smaller institutions that engage in small business lending and to hear about resources for lenders.

October 2010	Fall 2010 Reserve Account Management and Payment System Risk Seminars The seminars are designed to provide attendees with the principles and concepts necessary to manage their Federal Reserve accounts effectively.
October 21, 2010	2010 Regional & Community Bankers Conference The conference provided insight on current industry issues affecting New England Regional and Community banks.
June 3, 2010	FedExchange 2010 A Conference for New England Financial Executives
March 31, 2010	Payments Security in a Cyber World A full-day program to help financial institutions recognize and mitigate the escalating risks in dealing with cyber threats affecting the security of payment services as well as new threats in areas like mobile banking.

October 1, 2009	2009 Regional & Community Bankers Conference This conference provided insight into the Federal Reserve’s perspective on current industry issues affecting regional and community banks in New England.
May 6, 2009	FedExchange 2009 A day-long interdisciplinary conference addressing a broad spectrum of information on many topics of interest in today's world of banking, intended for senior officers of New England financial institutions

October 16, 2008

2008 Regional & Community Bankers Conference
This conference provided insight into the Federal Reserve’s perspective on current industry issues affecting regional and community banks in New England.

May 14-15, 2008

New Challenges for Operational Risk Measurement and Management
The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and the Federal Reserve Board of Governors hosted a conference on AMA implementation in May 2008. The conference provided a forum for discussion of critical issues related to the upcoming implementation of the Basel II Accord in the area of Operational Risk. Discussion topics include regulatory initiatives (e.g., results from the 2008 US Range of Practice Exercise), quantification issues, the relationship between risk measurement and risk management, home/host, scenario analysis challenges, and many others.

October 25, 2007

2007 Regional & Community Bankers Conference
Presentation topics included an economic outlook, changes in real estate lending, an update on identity theft, and funding trends.

2006

October 11, 2006

2006 Regional & Community Bankers Conference
Topics covered real estate, demographics, and the economy; New England banking and funding trends; the direction of banking services; and supervisory updates.

2005

June 7, 2005

2005 Regional & Community Bankers Conference
Topics included emerging payments, banking trends in New England, the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), anti-money laundering (AML), and Check 21.

May 18-20, 2005

Implementing an AMA for Operational Risk
The conference's primary objective was to provide a forum for discussion of many of the most critical issues related to the upcoming implementation of the Basel II Accord. Discussion topics included regulatory initiatives, such as the Quantitative Impact Study, the Loss Data Collection Exercise and AMA benchmarking initiatives; quantification issues, including modeling assumptions and scaling; and outstanding policy issues, such as the treatment of expected versus unexpected losses and home-host issues.

2004

May 18, 2004

The Third Annual Regional & Community Bankers Conference

2003

June 5, 2003

The Second Annual Regional & Community Bankers Conference

2002

June 3, 2002	Regional & Community Bankers Conference
April 17-19, 2002	The Impact of Economic Slowdowns on Financial Institutions and Their Regulators A symposium jointly sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and the Journal of Financial Intermediation

2001

November 14-16, 2001

Capital Allocation for Operational Risk Conference
The conference provided a comprehensive understanding of current and evolving best practices in identifying, measuring, and modeling operational risk and in managing and mitigating this risk through capital allocation, insurance, and other existing and potential risk management tools. The conference presented the perspectives of practitioners in the banking, securities, and insurance industries, as well as supervisors and academics specializing in these sectors. The conference also identified and discussed possible solutions to barriers that may be impeding the development of new approaches.