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In an interview with RMA Communications Manager Stephen Krasowski, Rob Edwards, Chief Risk Officer, United Community Bank, discusses risks facing community banks and lessons learned during the pandemic, interest rates, PPP, and changes to policies and practices.

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Despite the associated challenges surrounding the pandemic, preparedness will be the key to CECL. It is important that we actively identify the issues that will create complications and address them in preparing the estimate, work in advance to discuss and clear issues or positions with the auditors and regulators, and determine that there are controls in place to make sure everything gets done right.

In an interview with RMA Communications Manager Stephen Krasowski, Benjamin Hoffman, Managing Director of Financial Risk Management at KPMG and Joseph Bielecki, Director, Advisory, of Financial Risk Management at KPMG, discuss the volatility of CECL estimates, COVID-related modifications and challenges, model limitations, and accounting policy elections and assumptions.

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Linda Tuck Chapman, CEO of Third-Party Risk Institute, discusses what went right in 2020 and strategies for 2021 regarding third-party risk.

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RMA responded to the COVID-19 crisis by quickly pivoting to virtual peer sharing and other events, adding new business solutions, and creating content across our many platforms to help institutions navigate an unprecedented economic shock and be more responsive to our members’ needs. In an interview with RMA Communications Manager Stephen Krasowski, RMA President and CEO Nancy Foster discusses the Association's top initiatives from the past year.

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In an interview with Stephen Krasowski, Communications Manager at RMA, Branan Cooper, a financial services industry expert with over 30 years experience with banks like MBNA America, Western Alliance Bancorp, The Bancorp Bank, and a RegTech company, discusses the impact of regulation on third party risk management, challenges of third party risk, and how third party risk fits into an organization’s overall ERM framework.

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Linda Tuck Chapman, CEO, Third Party Risk Institute, discusses the SolarWinds megabreach, the most sophisticated hack ever, from the third and/or fourth party perspective. She also provides recommendations on what firms can do to strengthen their third-party risk management practices.

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