Workshop on Community Bank Investments

Previous Sessions Have Addressed

• The current economic environment as it affects community banks
• The importance of corporate culture in improving operating performance
• Specific risk factors and return opportunities with agency, residential mortgage-backed securities, CMOs, commercial mortgage-backed securities, municipals and select asset-backed securities
• Strategies to identify securities that best meet overall balance sheet objectives
• Importance of internal underwriting to navigate accounting and tax rules
• Strategies to identify true core funding, non-core funding and wholesale funding and attributes that validate which parts of each are truly stable
• How banks can effectively employ capital
• The current merger and acquisition environment for community banks
• How to prepare for exam issues commonly raised by regulators

This is an intermediate/advanced level workshop that is best suited for the following individuals: CEOs, presidents, CFOs, investment officers, controllers & cashiers, bank regulators and directors of community banks. This workshop uses current economic data to provide a follow-up to the security analysis and portfolio strategies taught in the Community Bank Investments School. A multiple-attendee discount applies for this program.

Attendees can also count workshop hours toward Continuing Professional Education. GSBC is registered with the NASBA as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses.

Participants stay and learn in a resort-style hotel on the Las Vegas strip. Host hotels rotate annually. Hotel accommodations are not included in program fees; GSBC arranges for a group rate and participants are required to make their own reservations. Stay tuned for 2019 program details!