RMA Annual Risk Management Conference

Industry leaders come together at our Annual Risk Management Conference to help professionals like you more successfully identify, assess, and manage credit risk, operational risk, and market risk...and shape new and more effective responses to these risks. This is your chance to join the best minds in our industry when they assemble in Baltimore, October 18-21, 2008.

Featured Speakers

• Charlie Cook, Political Analyst and Publisher
• Randall Kroszner, Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
• James E. Rohr, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, The PNC Financial Services Group
• Mark M. Zandi, Chief Economist and Cofounder, Moody's Economy.com

Conference Highlights

• Commercial Real Estate Demographics
• Problem Loan Workouts: Lessons Learned and How It’s Different This Time
• Operational Risk Management Reporting: What Management Wants and Needs
• Portfolio Risk Management Tools
• Using Professional Development to Improve the Organization’s Performance
• ALM and Risk Management: What Have We Learned from the Recent Interest Rate Cycle and Subprime Crisis?
• Capital Management Under Basel Pillar 2
• Market-Driven Appraisal Issues
• Implementing Effective Enterprise Risk Management at Community Banks
• Capital Markets Discussion–MBSs, CDOs, SIVs, and Other Wall Street Creations: What Went Wrong and What Has Changed?
• Commercial Real Estate Risk Management: Impact of Guidance and Regulators’ Reaction
• Portfolio Analytics Best Practices
• The World Not According to GAAP: Accounting Convergence

Agenda

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Preconference Round Table, Saturday, October 18, 2008
1:00-4:00 p.m.

Credit Risk Policy Round Table (optional, for bank employees only)
Designed for senior managers engaged in credit policy, credit administration, and other risk management functions, these interactive discussions will focus on credit risk policy issues. The final agenda will be developed with input from round table participants.
Registration fee: $250

RMA-CRC: 3 CEUs

Optional Information Sessions (no charge), Sunday, October 19, 2008
4:30 – 6:00 p.m.

1. The RMA/AFS Risk Analysis Service (Details Coming Soon)

2. Stress Testing a Commercial Loan Portfolio: A Top-Down Approach Assessing Downside Economic Risks
Stress testing or so-called scenario analysis is becoming an increasingly vital diagnostic tool in risk mitigation, with financial regulators emphasizing its use in banking institutions of all asset sizes. The issue is clearly taking center stage as an economic downturn looms while commodity prices are under serious upward pressure. Basel II modeling requirements and the recent subprime crisis instill a further need to employ stress-testing tools, a fact that affects banks big and small. The challenge is that conventional methods of stress testing a commercial portfolio do not adequately address the uneven impacts of a downside economic scenario on industry performance and, in turn, an industry’s probability of default. Some industries lose and some win, as determined by an industry’s relative sensitivity to economic factors and supply chain linkages. Using a methodology developed by IBISWorld and RMA, this session helps identify which industries will be hit hardest if a recessionary climate is the state-of-play, and where the lending opportunities reside in a downside scenario.
Presenters: Richard J. Buczynski, Ph.D., Senior Vice President and Chief Economist, IBISWorld Inc.

3. Financial Tools Information Session (Details Coming Soon)

4. Inmatrix Information Session (Details Coming Soon)

Hotel Information
For accommodations during the conference, please call the Marriott at 410-385-3000 and identify yourself as being with RMA. Reservations must be made by September 25, 2008, in order to ensure room and rate availability. RMA cannot guara