ICBA Education
Grow professionally with offerings from ICBA Education.
In collaboration with ICBA’s education department, certification programs, seminars, online training, and a host of resources are now available on our website, making it easier for you to find needed education. The new Affiliate Education Program will ensure that collectively, we put community banks in contact with the training tools necessary to grow bankers’ knowledge and skills.
Additionally, the program will also support IBAT: for every ICBA training course, seminar, event registration and resource purchased, ICBA will donate 10 percent of eligible purchases to IBAT.
Let’s all win by increasing knowledge, improving efficiency, and investing in our employees while working together to uplift the industry we love—community banking!
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CERTIFICATIONS
Designation: Certified Community Bank Internal Auditor (CCBIA)
Requirements: Audit Institute; (30) Continuing Professional Education credits required every two years.
This program is designed to provide tools and step-by-step procedures to establish and maintain an effective internal audit function within a community bank. Areas covered include auditing basics, internal auditing working papers, auditing liabilities and other activities, auditing assets and bank information systems auditing.
Learn more and register here.
Designation: Certified Community Bank Security Officer (CCBSO)
Requirement: Bank Security Institute; (15) Continuing Professional Education credits required every two years.
This program is designed to provide the Security Officer, regardless of the location or size of the bank, with critical information to meet regulatory requirements and provide strategic and tactical methods of security, robbery and fraud prevention and risk management.
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Designation: Certified BSA/AML Professional (CBAP)
Requirement: BSA/AML Institute; (20) Continuing Professional Education credits required every two years.
The formal requirements for financial institution compliance under the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) continue to be significant. This program covers all primary requirements of regulation and delivers guidance on best practice expectations in each area.
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Designation: Certified Commercial Loan Officer (CCLO)
Requirement: Commercial Lending Institute; (15) Continuing Professional Education credits required every two years.
Loans are the most significant risk in most bank portfolios. This program assists in developing the necessary credit skills to maintain and manage a commercial credit portfolio as well as the analytical processes needed to reach a conclusion about the borrower’s repayment ability.
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Designation: Certified Community Bank Compliance Officer (CCBCO)
Requirement: Compliance Institute; (30) Continuing Professional Education credits required every two years.
The Compliance Institute is a comprehensive learning experience that covers the areas of regulatory compliance a community bank Compliance Officer is responsible for. This program covers: Developing a Compliance Program, Lending, Deposit and Operations Compliance.
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Designation: Certified Community Bank Consumer Lender (CCBCL)
Requirement: Consumer Lending Institute; (15) Continuing Professional Education credits required every two years.
Consumer lending presents a unique set of challenges by combining credit risk process with regulatory process. This program addresses the consumer lending decision and making sense of each step by covering the application process, financial statement analysis, credit analysis, loan structure, compliance, documentation procedures and closing.
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Designation: Certified Community Bank Credit Analyst (CCBCA)
Requirement: Credit Analyst Institute; (15) Continuing Professional Education credits required every two years.
The role of a credit analyst has evolved into a critical function in today’s community banks. This program focuses on the necessary financial analysis skills needed by today’s credit analysts and addresses the additional expertise vital to a community bank’s overall lending success.
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Designation: Certified Community Bank Data Analyst (CCBDA)
Requirement: ICBA’s Data & Analytics Institute; (15) Continuing Professional Education credits required every two years.
Participants of ICBA’s Data & Analytics Institute will gain the skills to turn data into actionable strategies that drive business growth and improve decision-making.
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Designation: Certified Community Bank Risk Specialist (CCBRS)
Requirement: Enterprise Risk Management Institute; (15) Continuing Professional Education credits required every two years.
Participants of ICBA’s Enterprise Risk Management Institute will enrich and affirm their knowledge of the risk components that influence a bank’s function and soundness.
This certification program focuses on strategies surrounding bank governance, credit risk, interest rate risk, liquidity risk, operational risk, compliance risk, and legal risk. The program includes comprehensive dialogue that brings all risk elements together to reveal the necessary components of a successful enterprise risk management (ERM) framework.
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Designation: Certified Community Bank Technology Officer (CCBTO)
Requirement: Community Bank IT Institute; (30) Continuing Professional Education credits required every two years.
Information technology solutions continue to evolve. This creates opportunities for community banks to increase efficiency, improve service capabilities and better safeguard customers. This program addresses today’s community bank needs for managing and maximizing technology investments and shows IT managers and officers the solutions they can utilize to help strengthen existing IT capabilities, develop operational efficiencies and business continuity solutions and more.
Learn more and register here.
Designation: Certified Community Bank Marketing Strategist (CCBMS)
Requirement: ICBA’s Marketing Institute; (15) Continuing Professional Education credits required every two years.
Participants of ICBA’s Marketing Institute will gain the skills and solutions to help strengthen
existing marketing capabilities and develop new approaches.
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RESOURCES
The Bank Directors’ Bible (4th Edition, 2023) provides industry best practices, insights into issues encountered by community bank directors in today’s environment and how to effectively serve on community bank boards of all sizes.
Bank Director Glossary includes more than 200 pages of customary terms used by regulators, executive officers, industry consultants, and attorneys. Presented alphabetically with clear and to the point definitions, this valuable reference guide is a must have for any community bank director or officer.
Ultimate Guide for Bank Directors
The Ultimate Guide for Bank Directors provides bank directors with the knowledge and insight necessary for performing their fiduciary responsibilities conscientiously and effectively. This is a must read for every board member or bank executive aspiring to become a director.