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Nebraska Peer-to-Peer

Thursday, November 14th, 2024
We hope you can join us for the next NE Peer-to-Peer meeting. Some of the top goals these gathering intend to reach are below:
• Foster conversation among professional equals who deal with similar challenges every day.
• Identify best practices and resources.
• Anticipate and prepare for coming changes that will require the business to adapt.
And MORE! Please click below if you would like more information regarding any of the peer-to-peer, including times and locations. Even if you do not live near one, let us know. If we get enough interest, we will consider opening one up for your region.

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Colorado Peer-to-Peer

Thursday, November 7, 2024
Location: 2425 35th Avenue, Greeley 80634
At our last meeting in CO, we had a great update and discussion regarding fraud with an agent from CO FBI division.
We also covered a number of operational issues and questions involving FTE’s, ACH, Reg E training and more.
If you missed the last one, please click below and/or you would like more information regarding any of the peer-to-peer’s, including times and locations. Even if you do not live near one, let us know. If we get enough interest, we will consider opening one up for your region.

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Webinar to discuss the new FFIEC IT Handbook and the end of the CAT

FFIEC Changes: New Handbook and the End of the CAT
We are ending August with the notice that a brand-new IT Handbook - Development, Acquisition and Maintenance - has been released and that the Cybersecurity Assessment Tool is sunsetting. Let's drink from the firehose and go over both major changes. Anne will guide us through both changes and take questions during the presentation.

Development, Acquisition and Maintenance
This handbook replaces the previous Development and Acquisition Handbook and adds much more - even to banks that do not do their own development. Anne will power through the Development part and focus on the importance of maintenance in the life of a system or a component. Areas covered will be:

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BBW Newsletter

Our newsletter wants to provide a range of ideas and services to empower our community banks to perform at their highest level. It is our goal to seek out recognition, advice and obstacles that financial institutions encounter and provide a beneficial perspective. If you have an ideas to contribute, we are always excited to hear from our customers and partners, and encourage you to reach out to us at info@bbwest.com

NEW! BBW president, Bill Mitchell, talks about the logistics of staying successful and profiting in a shifting economy, ISO 20022 and other important industry updates, introductions to Mike Milan, podcaster /author /entrepreneur and your instructor for the Loan Officer Financial Management training, mitigating risk in BSA/AML, loan documentation platform advise from Bank Strategies LLC, president, Jim Swanson, and this quarter's IT advice.
In this issue CEO, Bill Mitchell reflects on community banks in comparison to America's favorite summer sport, baseball, meet our new chairman, agricultural loans facts and more!
In this issue BBW president and CEO Bill Mitchell reflects on stable leadership--a fitting strategy for challenging times . Also in this issue, understanding the Corporate Transparency Act, advances in the realm of instant payments, hands-on training for loan officers and relationship managers coming in October . . . and more.
In this issue, How to identify and protect against so-called family emergency scams and other fraud attempts, meet one inspiring teenage entrepreneur, BBW deposit options for community banks, and of course a great message from our president and CEO, Bill Mitchell.

Full Cyber Fraud Article

NEW! Effectively Managing BSA/AML Risk

What is Peer-to-Peer?

Featured webinar

Looking for the recording for the “What’s Next?” in FedNow webinar...click below to go to the educational resources page to see our updates!

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More upcoming/past events from us and our partners

Bankers’ Bank of the West

2023 Payment Conference Future of Payments

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SPEAKER BIOS

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Loan Officer Training 2024

Our Loan Officer training was back. Mike Milan was back in Denver to provide this exhilarating and educational experience for loan officers. If you missed out, we still encourage you to view other lessons that Mike has available virtually here: Clear Path to Cash Self Help video training.

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Payment Professor Webinar

Join Kevin Olsen, the Payments Professor, as he provides a introduction to what you should be expecting with FedNow (SM), and field any initial questions you may have about the launch confirmed will be coming this summer of 2023. To watch the webinar recording and introduction videos, visit the customer resource tab here.

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(PREVIOUS CONFERENCE) 2022 Payments Conference

This flipbook contains presentations shown by our expert speakers during the 2022 Payments Conference. Click below to see more!

Conference Flipbook
ICBC Annual Convention: September 2023

Bankers’ Bank of the West is proud to once again be Legacy Sponsors for the ICBC’s Annual Conference, along with support of other events throughout the year. Click below to be directed to ICBC’s event page on their website to view their full lineup.

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CBA & AZBA 2023 Annual Summit

We are proud to be sponsors once again for CBA’s Women In Banking Conference, as well as the Annual Summit. We encourage you to check into the many learning opportunities and networking conference CBA has to offer in by clicking the link below.

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Technology & Security in Banking Conference

Coming in 2023 - Breaking Into Banking conference is in-depth educational workshop designed to help learn the specifics in the roles your staff players perform in your community banks infrastructure.

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