Welcome to CSSSO
Day Two: Tuesday, April 15, 2008

8:30
Continental Breakfast

9:00
Keynote Address: Aligning Your Institution with Credit Risk Management Goals
Many institutions face the challenge of effectively linking existing business goals with credit risk management strategies. To maintain a competitive stance in today’s marketplace, the industry’s leading organizations have diligently worked to integrate an effective risk management framework for the entire company. In this keynote address, you will:

  • Discover risk management alignment tools for addressing the objectives of individual company business units
  • Enhance credit lending procedures to meet institution-wide strategic goal initiatives

10:00
Enhancing Portfolio Intelligence and Risk Monitoring Procedures

  • Implement modeling techniques to perform credit data management and monitor both internal and external infl uencing factors
  • Examine key drivers of portfolio performance and monitoring to coordinate efforts across business functions

10:45
Break & Refreshments

11:00
Examining the Role of Basel II as it Relates to Your Organization

  • Understand Basel II’s capital adequacy proposals and how they affect organizations of all sizes
  • Explore the IRB approach taken by larger institutions and the risky investment strategies that inherently materialize for smaller banks

12:00
Lunch Break

1:00
Administering Stress Testing and Scenario Analysis for Adverse Credit Risk Conditions

  • Generate a fully integrated picture of risk exposures across the institution’s diverse array of lending activities
  • Access the distribution of possible future financial outcomes the organization might encounter

2:00
Developing Sound Structures for Lending Policy Exceptions

  • Administer reporting devices for enhancing risk tracking records
  • Create limits and regulations to deter lending exceptions and ensure management’s connection to the risk-taking processes

3:00
Break & Refreshments

3:15
Inside the Firm: Activating Strong Board Involvement and Management Competency with Credit Risk Management

  • Establish the structures to expand transparency and communicate both internal and external priorities
  • Create a monitoring framework to ensure managers’ continuing understanding and practice of risk management policies

4:15
Conference Adjourns