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Knowledge Center

Conferences/Forums
Present relevant information to help you make smarter decisions in your job. Recognized industry leaders address the conferences, offering insights into current trends and best practices. Many conferences, such as the Risk Management Conference, also offer programs in specialized tracks so that you get information specifically geared to your interests.

Exhibit at an Event

Round Tables
Round Tables bring together small groups of senior bankers who have a common interest in a particular issue. Over the course of a day or two, these senior bankers explore continuing and emerging opportunities and issues in an environment that provides both formal and informal opportunities for sharing ideas. Attendance at these round tables is by invitation only to ensure common interest among the participants for each event.

Regulatory issues
RMA acts as a liaison between the financial services industry and bank regulatory agencies. As a nonprofit professional association, RMA does not lobby on behalf of the industry. However, RMA meets often with industry regulators to discuss issues of mutual concerns such as the impact of the slowing economy on bank portfolios.

Basel II
RMAcontinues to work with the Basel Committee to reform the 1988 Capital Accord by providing industry input as to how the proposals impact bank capital and overall operations.

Loan Loss Reserves
RMA continues to closely follow the issue of Loan Loss Reserves since an AICPA Task Force revised its position significantly to allow an allowance for management judgment.

Regulatory Roundup
This highlights articles where regulators have issued guidance, regulations and standards governing banking organizations

Thought Leadership
RMA relies on our members as we undertake studies to help you better identify, assess, and manage risks. With your participation, we develop commercial and retail risk data used for our information and decision products. This includes questionnaires, benchmarking studies and best practice papers in the following areas:

• Small Business
• Retail
• Key Risk Indicators
• Communitiy Bank Risk Management
• Securities Lending Best Practices
• Enterprise Wide Risk Management
• Best Practices

• eMentor^® - an innovative online tool to help financial services professionals work smarter, quicker and more efficiently
• RMA Journal - the acclaimed publication with time honored roots as the premier publication devoted exclusively to credit, market, and operational risk management
• Industry - Studies including:
  • Annual Statement Studies^® - simply known as “The Ratio Book,” these sources have become an industry standard of financial data over the past 85 years.
  • Study Packs- include highly focused compilations addressing critical issues in credit risk, operational risk and market risk.
• Publications - articles and informational study packs for the top reference information every financial professional needs.

Training Center

eMentor^®
RMA's web performance tool, eMentor, is available bank-wide as an institutional web license. It contains all of RMA's Industry Information and "Best Credit Practices"