Status of Important Banking Cases
Holiday Decals
Arriving Soon!
Discounted Pricing Available for Local Market Interest
Rate Data
RateWatch
offers GBA members discounts on competitive interest rate
data to help you with pricing decisions and evaluate your local
interest rate markets related to FDIC rules for rate caps.
Read more about the discounts GBA
members may receive through a partnership with RateWatch here...
ABA
Insurance Program: Bond and D&O Coverage
The GBA-sponsored insurance
program managed by
ABA Insurance Services,
Inc.
is a bank-owned mutual insurance company founded to provide
reasonably-priced insurance coverage for banks.
Read more about the specific design of the ABA Insurance Program
here...
Job Bank
Find a job, post
a job
Career Paths for BankersTM
The 44
most-common bank job descriptions, the skills and competencies
you need to have those jobs and links to training and
development by job title.
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Banking's Future was in Focus at President/CEO, Bank Counsel Conferences
 More than 70 of Georgia's top bank executives and 23 bank
attorneys gathered this week at the annual combined GBA
President/CEO and Bank Counsel conferences. The common theme
among the presenters was moving forward with strategies in mind
to manage through the current economy as well as positioning for
recovery.
Read more about what Georgia's banking leaders discussed at the
conference here...
Summary of Deposits Released by FDIC, New Names
in the Top 5
The 321 FDIC institutions reporting deposits in Georgia as of
June 30 of this year held about $181 billion of in-state
deposits, down from about $186 billion at the same time in 2009.
That's one of the quick bits of information we noticed as the
FDIC released its yearly snapshot of statewide deposit market
share Thursday.
Find out who the top 5 for market share are and the new names to
the list...
 IOLTA
FDIC Insurance Coverage Update
Last week we reported about the FDIC's proposed rule to finalize
Dodd-Frank Act mandates implementing unlimited FDIC coverage of
noninterest-bearing transaction accounts through 2012.
We have
an update and a helpful resource for you related to the
issue of FDIC insurance coverage for
Interest on Lawyer Trust Accounts (IOLTA).
GBA President and CEO Joe Brannen made a presentation to the Georgia
Bar Foundation about the issue Aug. 27.
Access our
resource guide to help you discuss the issue with your
customers...
New!
Special Assets Online
Course Available
Banks never planned on becoming real estate developers, but many
have found themselves in that role. Here's
a great new resource to help your bank manage this. NEXT
Asset, in partnership with GBA, has developed an online course
entitled Special Assets: Understanding, Protection and
Disposition, to help the new real estate owners that are
trying to navigate the "new market."
Learn more about this special two-part course and register
here...
 Important
Farm Loan Legislation up for Debate
The
GBA and other banking associations are supporting a bipartisan
bill (S.3221) that would allow certain borrowers to continue
eligibility for USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) guaranteed farm
loans. The bipartisan bill would suspend borrower term limits
for such loans through 2012.
Read about the bill's potential effects on lenders and their
customers if Congress does not act...
Loan Applications in
SBA Loan Queue Approved
Earlier this week, all loan applications placed in the U.S.
Small Business Administration's loan queue by small business
borrowers received final approval. The approvals amount to 1,939
loans for nearly $970 million.
Read about the distributive breakdown of the SBA loan total
here...
Access a Vault of Valuable Peer Insight in the
GBA Security Community
As of mid-September, 127 bank robberies had been reported in
Georgia for the year, according to the FBI. One hundred nine of
those have been in greater Atlanta. Those are a couple of stats
made available recently to GBA Security Community members in
their online forum.
Learn more about the GBA Security Community and sign up here...
Fed Announces Plans for
New Advisory Council Focused on Community Depository
Institutions
The Federal Reserve said last week it plans to form a new advisory council
representing a broad group of insured community depository
institutions. The Community Depository Institutions Advisory
Council (CDIAC) will advise the Fed on the economy, lending
conditions and other issues.
Learn more about CDIAC and the role of community bankers on the
council here...
New $100 Bill
Distribution Delayed
Those of you eagerly awaiting the Feb. 10, 2011, arrival of the
Fed's freshly printed, redesigned Benjamins will have to wait a
little longer.
Find out why here...
2010 BankPAC Campaign Update
The 2010 BankPAC Campaign continues to get
good support from our members.
See this week's BankPAC update...
Newsmakers:
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New!
Senior Lending Officer Peer Group
Jerry
Blanchard, Partner, Bryan Cave,
presenting
Dec. 2 - Atlanta
Rescheduled:
Collections and Recovery Seminar
Dec. 16 - Macon
Compliance Conference and Security Workshop
Oct. 19-20 - Macon
Internal Audit
Seminar
Building an anti-fraud framework
Oct. 21
- Macon
BankPAC Golf Classic
The Brickyard at Riverside
Oct. 27 - Macon
Marketing Conference
Learn How to Renew and Revive Your Brand
Oct. 26-27
- Atlanta
Loan Documentation
Seminar
Closing loans
and understanding standard loan documents
Nov. 10 - Macon
BSA/AML and OFAC
Compliance Seminar
Key changes to
the BSA Examination Manual
Nov. 16 - Macon
401(k) Retirement Plan
Administration & Investments Seminar
Year-end census
submission, form changes, and legal updates
Nov. 17 - Atlanta
Understanding Income Taxes Seminar
Current
and deferred tax, valuation allowances, and multistate tax
Nov. 17 - Macon
Credit Conference
Credit-related accounting
issues
Dec.
2-3
- Atlanta
Georgia Banking School
Early Bird
Discount Still Available
May 1-6, 2011
Athens
Southern Operations and
Technology School
Top 5 reasons to attend
May 1-6, 2011
Athens
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