Amy Woods Brinkley, chief risk officer, Bank of America, will deliver a keynote address at RMA—The Risk Management Association’s Annual Risk Management Conference at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront in Baltimore, Maryland, October 5-7, 2003.
Philadelphia, PA (September 15, 2003)— Amy Woods Brinkley, chief risk officer, Bank of America, will deliver a keynote address at RMA—The Risk Management Association’s Annual Risk Management Conference at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront in Baltimore, Maryland, October 5-7, 2003.
Also addressing the conference are RMA Chair Suzanne Labarge, vice chairman and chief risk officer, RBC Financial Group; Phillip Humann, president and CEO, SunTrust Banks, Inc., and Dr. Alice M. Rivlin, Brookings Institution Economist, former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, former head of OMB, and founding director of the Congressional Budget Office.
The conference focuses on risk management issues facing the financial services industry and includes separate breakout sessions designed specifically for community banks as well as for large and regional banks. Highlights include sessions on enterprise-wide risk management, prevention of fraud, board governance issues, operational risk, and a regulatory update on ALLL methodologies. Current information regarding the Basel Accord and implications of the Patriot Act for community banks also will be presented.
A panel of community bank executives and a panel of large bank executives will discuss critical issues facing financial services organizations in today's environment and how they are dealing with them. Click here to register for the Risk Management Conference or call Customer Care at 1-800-677-7621.
“We are particularly proud of the experienced and highly qualified speakers we’ve lined up for this year’s conference,” said RMA President and CEO Maurice H. Hartigan II. “Risk management is an evolving process that has serious implications for profitability and shareholder value. Financial professionals who attend our conference to keep current with the advances and challenges in this dynamic discipline, will be glad they came.”
Founded in 1914, RMA—The Risk Management Association is a member-driven professional association whose sole purpose is to advance the use of sound risk principles in the financial services industry. RMA promotes an enterprise-wide approach to risk management that focuses on credit risk, market risk, and operational risk.
Headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, RMA has about 3,000 institutional members that include banks of all sizes as well as nonbank institutions. They are represented in the Association by 16,000 commercial loan, credit, and risk management professionals in the 50 states, Puerto Rico, Canada, and numerous foreign cities, including Hong Kong, Singapore, Melbourne, and London. For more information, contact Kathie Beans at 215-446-4095.