Managing Compliance Risks in Mergers & Acquisitions

Presented by:
Jim Bedsole

Mergers and acquisitions are on the rise again. When the time comes that your bank gets ready to grow, will you be prepared to address the compliance issues and identify the compliance risks that exist with your new merger partner? Will you be included on the initial due diligence team? What things do you need to be focused on during the approval process? What are the compliance risks at conversion? Do you have the proper tools and information to manage the compliance risks? This webinar will outfit you to successfully manage all of the key compliance risks in a merger or acquisition.

This program will tell you about:

• The initial due diligence process;
• Ongoing compliance risk assessment during approval;
• Complying with SEC and regulatory agency requirements for mergers;
• Preparing for conversion;
• Compliance after conversion;
• and other M&A compliance issues.

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About the speaker:
Jim Bedsole

Jim Bedsole has been the chief compliance officer through 9 mergers/acquisitions since 1995. He has first hand knowledge of the compliance activities that help to make a successful conversion. He currently serves as the Regulatory Risk Manager for The South Financial Group in Greenville, SC. TSFG is an $11 billion bank holding company and is the parent company of Carolina First Bank, Greenville, SC and Mercantile Bank, Orlando, FL. Jim has been hanging around Bankers Online since its inception in 2000 and is a BOL Guru.

CD-ROM includes:

• Complete presentation (including slides and audio)
• Written Materials
• Follow-up Q & A

You have the right under this license agreement for this CD-ROM to use this presentation on a single-workstation. Use on a network is in violation of the copyright agreements. CD may be used by multiple users at a given institution but may not be placed on a network or in any other multi-user environment.

This has been approved for 2.5 hours CRCM credit.