Important Notices

July 27, 2010

Commissioner Haraf to Address AABD/WIB Directors Conference

DFI encourages bank directors to take education seriously.  In these challenging times, we believe that bank director education is more important than ever.  

The Commissioner will be speaking about Prospects for California Banking and the New Regulatory Environment at the Opening General Session during the Annual Directors Conference on October 7-9 in San Francisco sponsored by Western independent Bankers and the American Association of Bank Directors.  This panel will also provide insights on the impact of financial reform on the community banking industry.

Panel Members are:

• William Haraf, Commissioner, California Department of Financial Institutions
• Mark Olson, Co-Chairman, Corporate Risk Advisors– Former Federal Reserve Board Governor
• Gary J. Young, CEO & Senior Consultant, Young & Associates

Moderator: Steve Brown, President & CEO, Pacific Coast Bankers’ Bank

The program features a wide variety of timely topics and an interactive mock board session. Other topics include: Making sense of the numbers; Tomorrow’s regulatory landscape; Innovation and technology for competitive advantage ; Leveraging your bank’s reputation; Compensation and risk; Management and board transitions;  Asking the right questions and getting the right answers; Community banking in 2011 and beyond.

For more information or to register for the conference please go to:

http://www.wib.org/conferences__education/directors_conference/index.html.

Other workshops provided by WIB for directors in California  include the Directors & Risk Workshop and the Directors & Audit: Risk Governance Workshop in Newport Beach on August 9.