The Risk Management Association’s Operational Risk Management Discussion Group will meet on November 1- 2, 2007, at Bank of America, International Trade Center, Charlotte, North Carolina. Early registration is advised.
Philadelphia, Pa. (September 27, 2007) – Amy Brinkley, chief risk officer, Bank of America, will be the leadoff speaker at The Risk Management Association’s (RMA’s) Operational Risk Management Discussion Group. The event will be held November 1-2, 2007 at Bank of America, International Trade Center, Charlotte, North Carolina.
Participants at this two-day event will discuss major tactical and strategic challenges in leading their institutions' operational risk efforts and also hear presentations from financial services industry experts.
Speakers also include Mario Mosse, vice president, corporate risk management, Prudential Financial, and Alfred Seivold Jr., senior examiner specialist targeting operational risk, FDIC Division of Supervision and Consumer Protection, Large Bank Group, and Rachel Floars, senior vice president, online channel risk manager, BB&T.
One of the highlights of this program will be a breakout session on career and talent management for risk leaders, led by Bill Savage, associate vice president, enterprise risk management (ERM), The Hartford, and Mark Palmer, director, ERM, Capital One.
“Career and talent management are critically important to the success of an enterprise risk management program,” said Savage. “We need to identify key competencies of practitioners and of leaders and we need to identify the sources of future risk management practioners and leaders.”
Savage said this session would also discuss paths into the organization from the ERM function and how management could more actively support development of risk management capabilities within the workforce.
Topics of other breakout sessions are:
- Operational risk reporting
- Scenario analysis
- Emerging policy developments related to Basel II in the U.S.
- External data scenarios
- Optimizing compliance efforts with governance, risk and compliance (GRC) concepts
For more detailed information about the agenda and for registration information, please visit the RMA Web site at www.rmahq.org or call RMA Customer Care at 800-677-7621. As seating is limited, early registration is advised.
About RMA
Founded in 1914, The Risk Management Association is a not-for-profit, member-driven professional association whose sole purpose is to advance the use of sound risk principles in the financial services industry. RMA promotes an enterprise approach to risk management that focuses on credit risk, market risk, and operational risk.
Headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, RMA has 3,000 institutional members that include banks of all sizes as well as nonbank financial institutions. They are represented in the association by 18,500 risk management professionals who are chapter members in financial centers throughout North America, Europe, and Asia/Pacific. Visit RMA on the Web at www.rmahq.org.
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Kathleen M. Beans
RMA Public Relations Manager
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