Building an Enterprise Risk Management Framework for Mid-Sized and Community Banks

In today's world, Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) is increasingly becoming more important to Mid-Sized and Community banks. It is essential that mid –sized and community banks understand the multiple practical dimensions of risk as well as how to best manage risk to gain a competitive advantage. The regulators and the market at large, expects the same level of sophistication and maturity when it comes to ERM programs from mid-sized and community banks as they would from some of the largest banks in the country, even though they might have a fraction of the budget which some of larger banks have access to. Faced with this challenge mid-sized and community banks today are building innovative best practices and frameworks to help them stay ahead of the curve in terms of superior risk adjusted performance.

MetricStream brings together a panel of banking experts with hands-on experience in building Enterprise Risk Management Programs for mid-sized and community banks to discuss and provide insights into:

Causes of the recent financial crises
Lessons learned from the recent financial crises
Strategies to deal with an increasing amount of Operational Risk
Taking an integrated ERM, Governance and Compliance approach
Measuring and managing risk adjusted performance
Defining roles of key players in managing ERM
Establishing Standards of Practice
Defining the technology infrastructure necessary to support superior risk adjusted performance

Panelists

Dr. Robert M. Mark - CEO of Black Diamond Risk and Former Sr. EVP & CRO of CIBC
Dr. Mark is the Chief Executive Officer of Black Diamond Risk which provides corporate governance, risk management consulting, risk software tools and transaction services. He serves on several boards as well as on Checkpoint's Investment Committee. He is the Vice Chairperson of the Board of the Professional Risk Managers' International Association (PRMIA). Prior to his current position, Dr. Mark was the Senior Executive Vice-President and Chief Risk Officer (CRO) at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC). Dr. Mark was a member of the Management Committee. His global responsibility covered all credit, market, and operating risks for all of CIBC as well as for its subsidiaries. Prior to his CRO position, Dr. Mark was the Corporate Treasurer at CIBC.

Susan Palm - Vice President of Industry Solutions, MetricStream
As the VP of Industry Solutions, Ms. Palm is responsible for driving growth for MetricStream in specific industries including Financial Services. Ms. Palm comes to MetricStream with over 27 years as a practitioner in Governance and Risk Management. Most recently, as the Senior Vice President of Audit and Risk at Sterling Savings Bank, Ms. Palm was responsible for Audit, Compliance, Fraud, Credit Review and Enterprise Risk Management. She has also spent several years in consulting. Prior to that, Ms. Palm spent over two decades at Norwest and Wells Fargo where she served as the Senior Vice President of Enterprise Governance and Risk Management. She was actively engaged with the Board of Directors, Federal Reserve, the OCC, other regulatory bodies, and has led various National Operational Risk committees eg BITS Regulatory Overlap Reconciliation and the Basel ANPR. She is a regular speaker at several forums in Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC). Ms. Palm received her B.A. in Economics from Lawrence University, and graduated from the Stanford Graduate School of Business' Executive Program.

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Building an Enterprise Risk Management Framework for Mid-Sized and Community Banks Date: Wednesday June 20, 2012 Time: 8 am Pacific \| 11 am Eastern \| Duration: 1 hour