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| February, 2006 |
The hottest articles, best Threads, latest products, new faces,
and a look at some of the sponsors and advertisers who make it all possible!
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A warm welcome to the companies who joined or renewed BankersOnline.com or BOL Vendor Connect during the past month as advertisers or sponsors. These companies help make BOL possible. Click their links to learn about them!
Edcomm Group
Provider of education solutions to the banking industry for 19 years - from traditional Teller and Compliance, to Sexual Harassment and Financial Elder Abuse.
Entrust
Source for secure identity management solutions, including being FFIEC compliant to help customers achieve regulatory compliance.
Source Technologies
Provides integrated solutions that manage transactions for secure business processes through dynamic hardware, software, and self-service solutions.
Wolters Kluwer (formerly Bankers Systems)
For compliance resource solutions including deposit, lending, training, and software applications in over 12,000 financial institutions.
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In January, we added four new tools and updated another in the Banker Tools section on BankersOnline.com.
Sarah Poff of Lowcountry National Bank, Beaufort, SC, contributed a tool to facilitate the transfer of a completed financial statement to you from another lender. The Certification of Personal Financial Statement will make your loan process more efficient.
The Edcomm Group has contributed a tool, an Executive SOX Primer to train new and seasoned executive officers in Sarbanes-Oxley requirements. This audio-visual presentation will cover the basics for them.
Another tool contributed by The Edcomm Group is a flash-based program called "World of Banking". It has banking history and facts, along with basic training, games and fun that will help train your staff.
Need help understanding the requirements of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act? This flash-based tutorial, Banking for Servicemembers, from The Edcomm Group will assist everyone from compliance and auditing to lenders, operations officers and collectors. Get the basics, learn the spirit and intent, as well as what the law requires.
David Dickinson, of Bankers Compliance Consulting, has updated his original HOEPA Calculator which he made available for the last few years. If you're having your high-cost loans checked, as they need to be, you need this update as it includes the 2006 trigger amount. Old versions of the program need to be updated. |
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 GeoDataVision is a new vendor in the Banker Store! Two CDs, Mortgage Market Report and Small Business Lending Report, give detailed information about lenders and borrowers, including such borrower characteristics as: race, income, loan amounts, loan type, etc., that is extracted from the official federal databases and used by regulators when they evaluate your institution's performance under CRA and HMDA.
During the month of January, we added two new HR Forms to the Banker Store and five new lending policies. The Glia Group has released for immediate delivery the following BOL Learning Connect CDs:
How to Audit for Compliance with the FACT Act
Vendor Due Diligence
CIP, Customer Due Diligence and Enhanced Due Diligence
Flood Insurance Coverage Issues
Safe Deposit Disasters Spark Lawsuits
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 This month, we welcome our newest guru Don Pape. Donald A. Pape, Esq., is of counsel to the Oklahoma City law firm, Phillips McFall McCaffrey McVay & Murrah, P.C. and primarily practices banking law and regulation, corporate and securities law with emphasis in mergers and acquisitions. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism in 1967 and a Juris Doctorate degree in 1973 from the University of Oklahoma.
Mr. Pape is a member of the Cleveland County, Oklahoma County, the Oklahoma and American Bar Associations. He has also been admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court. In 1988, he was a founding shareholder and counsel to Republic Bank of Norman, where he has been Chairman of the Board of Directors since 1990.
Don served as a member of the Article 8 Legislative Review Subcommittee of the Oklahoma Bar Association's Financial Institutions and Commercial Law section of the Uniform Commercial Code Committee. He is also a
member of the Oklahoma Banking Commissioner's Banking Code Review Committee. While on the Code Review Committee, he authored several of the revised parts of the Oklahoma Banking Code of 1998. He currently serves as Vice-Chair for Policy on the Banker's Advisory Board of the US Conference of State Bank Supervisors.
Mr. Pape and Andy Zavoina recently presented a BOL Learning Connect Webinar on Vendor Due Diligence. If you missed it, you can order a CD-ROM of the presentation and their materials for the session in the BOL Banker Store. |
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Here are links to the most popular articles accessed by you and referred to colleagues during the past month.
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With over 503,000 messages, Bankers' Threads has no equal as a spot for bankers to network and exchange information. Here are links to the most frequented threads last month.
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If a picture is truly worth a thousand words, our eCard Exchange speaks volumes. Browse our gallery of photographic art and less serious offerings and you'll find just the right image to convey your words. Click here and take a look!
Here's one of our favorite ecards from our Nostalgia group. This looks like the ideal card to use for a reminder to your lenders about checking their real estate collateral! You were worried about flood insurance? |
 We haven't forgotten that Valentine's Day is right around the corner, and now you'll remember, too! Send this eCard or any of the others in our Valentine's Day collection to that special someone, but we suggest you deliver something else personally!
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