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Issue 5 - May 2008
Bank Management
Surviving the Credit Crunch: Community Banks Need To Focus on Becoming SMB Banks

dollar_sign.jpgCommunity Banks have been profoundly affected by the current credit market difficulties.  Many will need to reposition their market focus and adopt innovative growth strategies to build its capital base and maintain profitability if it wishes to remain independent.

Community banks have confronted drastic market challenges during the not to distant past.  For example, during the 90’s community banks dominance of the small and mid-size business (SMB) market began to erode

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Bank Compliance
Identity Theft Red Flags, the reader's digest version
ImageOn November 9, 2007 the OCC, Board, FDIC, OTS, NCUA and FTC (the Agencies) jointly issued the final rules and guidelines implementing section 114 of the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003 (FACT Act) and final rules implementing section 315 of the FACT Act.  The rules implementing section 114 require financial institutions or creditors to develop and implement a written Identity Theft Prevention Program (the Program) to detect, prevent, and mitigate identity theft in connectio...
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International Banking
Banking on Sharia Principles: Islamic Banking and the Financial Industry
There are an estimated 1.61 billion Muslims worldwide, making Islamic banking one of the fastest growing segments of the financial industry. Banks serving the Islamic population must comply with several very specific principles of Islamic law if they hope to retain existing customers and attract new ones. Banks must be ready with specialized products and services and they must put programs in place to train their personnel to support these products and services in order to exist in this c...
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Bank Security
Security in a Cyber World

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Long gone are the days when the primary threat to a community bank was a local outlaw with a gun and bandana.  The external perimeter of community banks is no longer limited to the brick and mortar building in which their money and information resides.  The security landscape of today’s Internet connected bank has expanded to include global threats, such as Foreign Terrorist Organizations.  Therefore, banks must take a strong stance on security to ensure their inform...
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