In the January/February issue of ABA Bank Compliance, Jim Jorgensen explores the skills that highly successful compliance officers (COs) need to develop. To address this issue, Jim spoke with several COs from community banks to large regional banks. They shared their insights about what skills they feel are most valuable for their roles and how they acquired and developed them.
The Illinois Bankers (IBA) held its Bank Counsel Conference on December 3, 2021 in Chicago. Monika McCarthy and Justin C. Steffen, Esq., Partner, Barack Ferrazzano Financial Institutions Group co-presented a session entitled The Future of Digital Mortgages. They addressed how to choose the right partners with the right contractual provisions, balancing considerations such as data… Read more »
On November 30th, Heidi Wier participated with Joseph T. Lynyak III, Partner, Dorsey & Whitney LLP, in the Bank Counsel Roundtable webinar – Fair Lending Under the Biden Administration: A Reboot or Something Different? The speakers reviewed important components of a fair lending program, including recommended approaches to review an institution’s fair lending policies and… Read more »
