RMA to Hold Annual Risk Management Conference at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C., October 8-11, 2005.
Philadelphia, PA (September 21, 2005)—John A. Allison IV, chairman and CEO, BB&T Corporation, will deliver the opening keynote address at the Risk Management Association’s (RMA) Annual Risk Management Conference at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, Washington, D.C., October 8-11, 2005. Tim Russert, NBC’s Washington bureau chief and moderator of Meet the Press, will deliver the keynote address on Tuesday.
The Annual Risk Management Conference is designed to help risk management professionals more successfully manage risks across the enterprise. It helps them in their efforts to identify, assess, and manage credit risk, operational risk, and market risk.
“Enterprise risk management is of increasing importance to the financial services industry because the marketplace has become broad and more complex,” said RMA President and CEO Maurice H. Hartigan II. “RMA’s Annual Risk Management conference is designed to help professionals shape new and more effective responses to risk.
“We are particularly proud of the experienced and highly qualified speakers we’ve lined up for this year’s conference,” said Hartigan. “Financial professionals who attend our conference to keep current with the advances and challenges of managing risk in their portfolios will be glad they came.”
Conference highlights include addresses by RMA Chair W. Kendall Chalk, chief credit officer, BB&T Corporation, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and Wachovia Bank Chief Economist John E. Silvia, Ph.D.
The Annual Risk Management Conference includes separate breakout sessions designed specifically for community banks as well as for large and regional banks. Sessions include discussions about risks in the current real estate market, interest-rate risk and bank funding, and Bank Secrecy Act compliance. The senior housing market, loan pricing, and small business portfolio management strategies also are among the topics to be discussed.
Two panel discussions are planned. Community bankers will hear a panel of OCC, Federal Reserve, and FDIC regulators discuss new guidance for risk ratings. Bankers from regional and large banks will hear chief risk/credit officers discuss top risk issues.