Get Soup-to-Nuts Employee and HR Compliance Toolkits

Employment Law Compliance, Inc. focuses on the needs of community banks that do not have the luxury of a large HR staff or in-house employment counsel. Lean more about how ELC can help you hire, retain, and manage the best employees here...

Develop, Engage and Retain Your Company's Top Employees
How tuned in is your top talent? TalentQuest can help you build and retain an all star team that will keep your organization sustainable and resilient to the ongoing challenges of the business climate. Read more about TalentQuest's time-tested talent management processes here...
 

Job Bank
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Career Paths for Bankers^TM

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.
 

GBA Comments on FASB Fair Value Proposal and FDIC Overdraft Guidance; Bankers Urged to Submit Comments, as Well

GBA President Joe Brannen commented to regulators this week on behalf of GBA's membership about two important issues -- FASB's mark-to-market proposal and the FDIC's overdraft guidance. Read about GBA's comment letters and how you can help...

Small Business Lending Bill Passes House

The U.S. House of Representatives Thursday passed the small business lending bill we told you about that passed the Senate last week. The bill includes a $30 billion capital provision for "healthy" community banks and the bill now goes to the President for his signature. Read more about the passage of lending bill here...

DBF Proposes New Rules; Comment By Oct. 25

The Georgia Department of Banking and Finance has issued a notice of proposed rulemaking covering a wide range of issues. Of significant interest are new rules relating to renewing loans when capital levels have declined and clarification on stacking. Read more about the GA DBF's proposed rulemaking issuance here...

Five Great Ways GBA Communities Can Keep You Connected

We want to remind everyone that GBA's online Communities are up and full of great content provided by your peers. Currently, the free online Communities open to GBA members are Compliance, Human Resources, Security, Bank Trainers, and Marketing. Learn the five features that make GBA Communities great and sign up here...

First Up for CFPB: Mortgage Disclosures and Credit Cards

The new financial consumer super-regulator is ramping up quickly, and this week we've gotten a glimpse of the initial areas of focus for new rules and regulations. Learn more about the CFPB's priorities here...

Happening Today: Webcast of FDIC Roundtable on New Deposit Insurance Assessment Authority
It's quite short notice for this week, but members may want to tune in today (Friday, Sept. 23) to a webcast of an FDIC roundtable discussion on the agency's new deposit insurance assessment authority under the Dodd-Frank Act. Read more about the Roundtable and get the link to the webcast here...

GBA in the News:

Foreclosures Continue to Make Headlines

The Augusta Chronicle called on GBA this week for banking insight about foreclosures. Access the story and read about GBA's comments to the paper here...

Financial Stability Oversight Council Meets Oct. 1

The first big powwow of the new Financial Stability Oversight council has been announced for October 1. They are tasked with identifying threats to the financial stability of the United States. Read more about the role of the Oversight Council here...

Insurance Alert:

News about New Healthcare Provisions

Some provisions of the national healthcare legislation passed earlier this year took effect this week for those not insured by group plans. For those covered by GBA Insurance Trust plans, however, these provisions go into effect when our group plans renew Jan. 1, 2011. Get a quick refresher about the new law's effect on GBAIT plans...

Attend GBA's Annual Credit Conference

Two Armed Bank Robbers Arrested This Week

James Marshall Sullivan, 24, Atlanta, and Montavious Jendel Hardy, 22, Atlanta, were arrested in Tucker Sept. 20 in connection with the Sept. 9 armed robbery of the Suntrust Bank, 4338 Paces Ferry Road, Atlanta. Read more about the arrests and learn about bank security resources offered by GBA here...

Updated Record Retention Guide Available

We are pleased to announce a newly-revised 2010 edition of the GBA Guide to Record Retention is now available. Read about why your bank needs a guide to Bank Record Retention here...

2010 BankPAC Campaign Update
The 2010 BankPAC Campaign continues to get good support from our members. See this week's BankPAC update...

Newsmakers: More About Georgia Bankers...

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Georgia Banking School
May 1-6, 2011
Athens

GBA IRA Update Seminar
Macon - Sept. 29

President/CEO Conference & Bank Counsel Conference
Bank Counsel CLE Credits approved
Oct. 3-5 - Callaway Gardens 

Collections and Recovery Seminar  Reviewing the fundamental legal principles involved in the collection process
Oct. 13 - Macon

 Compliance Conference and Security Workshop
Oct. 19-20 - Macon

Internal Audit Seminar
Concepts related to community bank internal controls and internal audit techniques
Oct. 21 - Macon

 Marketing Conference
Trade best practices promoting your bank and its products and services
Oct. 26-27 - Atlanta

Credit Conference
Don Ratajczak to keynote
Dec. 2-3 - Atlanta

BankPAC Golf Classic
The Brickyard at Riverside
Oct. 27 - Macon

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