Risk Management Officer Forum

Date:

Mar 5, 2025

Location:
IBA Center for Professional Development
8425 Woodfield Crossing Blvd, Suite 155E
Indianapolis, IN 46240

The IBA Risk Management Forum provides a platform and opportunity for Chief Risk Officers and other risk managers to exchange ideas freely, discuss important issues, and explore potential solutions with peers. You do not want to miss this opportunity!

Chief Risk Officers and other senior risk and compliance managers are the target audience for this forum. CEOs and CFOs of banks that do not have an established risk department would also benefit from the forum.

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Agenda

Session I: March 7, 2024
Session II: July 25, 2024
Session II: November 22, 2024

8:30 a.m.       Registration and Continental Breakfast 
9:00 a.m.       Program Begins
12:00 p.m.     Lunch
3:00 p.m.       Program Adjourns

Topics

Benefits of the Forum:

  • Broaden your knowledge of industry risk management methodologies
  • Find creative solutions to risk management challenges your bank is facing
  • Improve the efficiency and effectiveness of your enterprise risk management (ERM) program
  • Gain an industry perspective on risk management and compliance “hot topics”
  • Form relationships with other Chief Risk Officers and industry risk management experts

Possible Forum Topics

  • Top current and emerging risks for banks
  • Regulatory compliance “hot topics”
  • New product/activity risk management
  • Business resilience
  • Risk committees and policy governance
  • Risk culture and three lines of defense
  • Risk management department resources and structure
  • Enterprise-wide and targeted risk assessments
  • Key risk indicators
  • Fraud trends and solutions
  • Risk and compliance training

Who Should Attend
Risk executives – CROs- are the target audience for this forum, but CEOs or CFOs of organizations that do not have an established risk department or function also would benefit from the forum.

Speaker(s)

Rebecca Towne is founder and president of Quadrant Risk Advisory LLC, Indianapolis, which provides enterprise risk management services to banks nationwide. Previously, Towne served as national lead for ERM services for financial institutions for RSM LLP. An experienced bank chief risk officer, she has more than 25 years of executive level risk management experience and was engaged by the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland to assist in developing an ERM assessment framework. Towne earned a master’s degree from Duke University.

Fees

The following fees include three consecutive sessions to the forum and the program materials.

IBA member - $1,200 per person

Participation in this IBA Forum is limited to IBA member financial institutions, and nonmembers financial institutions from an eligible membership category at applicable member or non-member rates. 

location

IBA Center for Professional Development
8425 Woodfield Crossing Blvd., Suite 155E
Indianapolis, IN 46240

Association Contact

Laurie Rees, Vice President - Education & Training
Lrees@indiana.bank 
317-387-9380

Cancellation Policy

Due to our commitments, the price is inclusive of all three sessions. A full refund for the 3-session forum will be given for cancellations received prior to the first session. Any registrant who does not cancel before the first session will be billed the full registration fee and sent the materials. Substitutions are welcome at no additional charge. It is the registrant's responsibility to find a substitute if unable to make a session.