Tag: Examination Procedures

  • FFIEC Issues Stealth Update to BCP Handbook

    FFIEC Issues Stealth Update to BCP Handbook

    This caught me by surprise as it was not formally announced in the “What’s New” section, but the Appendix J update to the Business Continuity Planning Handbook apparently constituted a complete update to the Handbook.  Here is what the press release said in part: The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) members today issued a revised…

  • CFPB Examinations Are Coming – UPDATE 2

    Coming soon to your financial institution: Dear Board of Directors: Pursuant to the authority of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform… Read the rest of the article

  • Examination Experience Survey – preliminary results

    Although the survey is still open, I wanted to discuss one particular trend that I find interesting.  (If you’ve already participated, thank you!  Please pass the link on to a colleague at another institution.  If you haven’t had a chance to fill it out, please do so.  The survey will remain open until 8/19). One…

  • OTS Using New IT Examination Questionnaire

    I’m not sure if this is being used across the board for all OTS exams, or just regionally, but the new pre-examination form (officially called PERK, or Preliminary Examination Response Kit) is significantly more comprehensive…

  • Looking back – 2010 compliance hits & misses

    Every year about this time, I’m asked to look ahead to the upcoming year and prognosticate on regulatory compliance trends.  I  intend to do just that in a future post, but today I wanted to do something very few other prognosticators do…look back at last years’ predictions and see which ones hit and which missed…

  • Thankful for…Appendix A?!

    When you were a kid, you hated the “pop quiz” right?  But if the teacher allowed you to use your notes and textbooks, you felt like you at least had a fighting chance.  I’ve taken both proctored and “open book” certification exams, and I’ve always felt that open-book exams more accurately reflected how most of…