The Federal Financial Institution Examination Council (FFIEC) is a formal interagency body empowered to prescribe uniform principles, standards, and report forms for the federal examination of financial institutions by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (FRB), the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA), the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), and to make recommendations to promote uniformity in the supervision of financial institutions. In 2006, the State Liaison Committee (SLC) was added to the Council as a voting member. The SLC includes representatives from the Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS), the American Council of State Savings Supervisors (ACSSS), and the National Association of State Credit Union Supervisors (NASCUS ). Visit the Council's website for press releases and information on the mission and work of the Council at http://www.ffiec.gov/. The FFIEC Examiner Education Office created the FFIEC InfoBase, which is a vehicle that enables prompt delivery of introductory, reference, and educational training material on specific topics of interest to field examiners from the FFIEC member agencies. The IT Handbooks are updated and maintained electronically using the InfoBase vehicle.
The following provides an overview of information in this InfoBase: