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Bank Policies & Procedures: Fair Debt Collection Act (PLC-117)
Establishes the bank's intent for proper debt collection practices, including collection guidelines, collection activities, and third-party communications.
Bank Policies and Procedures: FDIC Signage and Advertisement Requirements (PLC-344)
The FDIC has recently updated the requirements regarding FDIC insurance. As part of that update, all FDIC-insured institutions must have a policy regarding these FDIC requirements. Streamline...
Bank Policies & Procedures: Fixed Asset Management (PLM-222)
Describes the responsibilities and processes utilized in the management of the bank's building, fixtures, furniture, and equipment.
Bank Policies & Procedures: Holding Company (PLM-225)
Sets forth the underlying philosophy and structure for all relationships and transactions between the bank and the holding company.
Bank Policies & Procedures: Flood Insurance (PLC-123)
Ensures the proper use of flood hazard determination form, customer notification, insurance coverage, escrow, and forced placement procedures.
Bank Policies & Procedures: Funds Management (PLM-097)
Designed to ensure that the bank is managed to provide adequate liquidity and a satisfactory and consistent level of profit within suitable interest rate risk constraints.
Bank Policies & Procedures: Home Equity Lending (PLL-236)
Guides the bank in establishing requirements for marketing, underwriting standards, collateral valuation management, individual account and portfolio management, and servicing for open and...
Bank Policies & Procedures: Home Mortgage Disclosure Act Reporting (PLC-119)
Establishes internal procedures that result in the proper recording of loan information, submission, and proper disclosures to the public.
Bank Policies & Procedures: I.T Asset Lifecycle Policy (PLM-330)
Establishes lifecycles for the hardware and software that is used within the bank as defined by the manufacturer or determined by the bank, identified by the manufacturer's plans for providing...
Bank Policies & Procedures: Identity Theft Prevention Policy (Red Flag) (PLC-224)
Provides guidance regarding the nature of identity theft, ways to prevent or deter it, response to suspected or actual instances, and education of bank staff and customers. This policy includes the...
Bank Policies & Procedures: Human Resources (PLM-184)
Provides management with a clear understanding of what the bank expects from its employees and, in turn, what employees can expect from the bank. Covers equal employment opportunity, employee...
Bank Policies & Procedures: Information Security Program Policy (PLM-252)
This policy and the sub-policies it contains are designed to provide guidance to all bank employees of the confidentiality and importance of safely maintaining customer information.
Bank Policies & Procedures: Incident Response Plan (PLM-250)
Lays out the steps to be followed should a bank experience a breach of data or loss of customer information. Includes an Incident Response policy, steps to take for specific types of incidents, a...
Bank Policies & Procedures: Internal and External Audit (PLM-085)
Designed to assist board members with their audit responsibilities. Includes audit function structure and committee meetings, technical duties, compliance, filing audit reports, roles and...
Bank Policies & Procedures: Insider and Affiliate Credit (PLC-075)
For compliance with insider lending. Designed to address the particular credit and legal standards that apply to insiders, including lending limitations for individuals and affiliates.
Bank Policies & Procedures: Interest Rate Risk (PLM-095)
Establishes the guidelines to ensure that the bank is managed to recognize, measure, and control interest rate risk by setting risk limits, strategies, and reporting formats. Updated to reflect the...
Bank Policies & Procedures: Internal Controls (PLM-242)
Addresses the various controls to ensure efficient and effective bank operations, the reliability of financial reporting, and an effective risk management system. Covers administrative,...
Bank Policies & Procedures: Internet/E-Mail Risk Management (PLM-183)
Establishes a set of policies for use of the Internet and e-mail facilities. Includes guidelines for customers' privacy, procedures in the case of disruptions of bank operations, bank computers,...
Bank Policies & Procedures: Investment (PLM-098)
Covers the delegation of investment authority and accountability, the definition of acceptable types of investments, and how to maximize the bank's profitability while meeting the local...
Bank Policies & Procedures: Liquidity Risk Management (PLM-096)
Designed to ensure that the bank is managed to provide an adequate level of liquidity to meet both predicted and unexpected cash needs while maintaining a planned net interest margin.
Bank Policies & Procedures: Liquidity Contingency Fund Plan (PLM-272)
Provides a written contingency funding plan as required by Interagency Guidance on Funding and Liquidity Risk Management. Delineates strategies and actions addressing potential liquidity...
Bank Policies & Procedures: Litigation Risk (PLM-211)
Defines the risks associated with real or threatened litigation. Covers legal counsel's role and responsibilities, risk management, assessment of potential losses, and system controls.
Bank Policies & Procedures: Loan Review (PLL-082)
Covers loan review committee duties and loan review officer responsibilities and qualifications, as well as scope of review, sample selection, and types of review. Highlights a rating system that...
Bank Policies & Procedures: Loan Workout Policy (PLL-286)
Establishes an appropriate practice for renewing and restructuring troubled credits. Addresses the requirements that are appropriate for the complexity of the bank’s loans and that are consistent...
Bank Policies and Procedures: Marijuana Business and MRB Lending Policy (PLL-333)
Establishes a prudent framework for financial institutions to responsibly conduct business with legal marijuana/cannabis businesses in their communities while acknowledging and mitigating the legal...
Bank Policies & Procedures: Marijuana/Cannabis & MRB Policy (PLC-331)
This policy establishes the responsibilities and requirements for conducting banking activities for legal marijuana and cannabis businesses, including those Tier 2 and Tier 3 businesses that have a...
Bank Policies & Procedures: Management of Country Risk (PLM-212)
Addresses the risk that economic, social, and political conditions in a foreign country may adversely affect a bank's financial interests. Covers responsibility, policies and procedures, country...
Bank Policies & Procedures: Money Services Businesses (PLC-235)
This policy provides guidance to assess the risks associated with servicing MSBs. Topics include the identification, documentation, and monitoring of these entities, as well as the operational...
Bank Policies & Procedures: Marketing (PLM-090)
Provides guidelines for the management of the bank's marketing function, including development of the annual marketing plan and ongoing decision making. Includes regulatory compliance, geographic...
Bank Policies & Procedures: Merchant Services (PLL-233)
Guides the bank in managing its relationship with Visa/MasterCard merchants. Topics include management of risk, capital adequacy, merchant approval processes, pricing, and fraud monitoring.
Bank Policies & Procedures: Military Lending Act (PLC-323)
This policy outlines the objective of the Military Lending Act to extend protections to a broader range of closed-end and open-end products. Includes information on the MAPR, disclosure...
Bank Policies & Procedures: Model Risk Management Policy (PLM-295)
Establishes methodology to mitigate potential risks arising from the bank's reliance on financial models and to ensure that the sources and the magnitude of the bank's model risk are understood and...
Bank Policies & Procedures: Planning and Budgeting (PLM-088)
Identifies the responsible parties and outlines the process for developing and implementing the strategic plan and the budget.
Bank Policies & Procedures: Pre-Employment Background Screen (PLM-237)
Reflects information contained in the FDIC’s Financial Institution Letter 46-2005 on Pre-Employment Background Screening. Covers the purpose and scope of the policy, responsibility, service...
Bank Policies & Procedures: Quality Control System (PLL-226)
Sets the guidelines for establishing a quality control system. Covers the purpose and scope of a quality control system, system operation, investigation, and policy review.
Bank Policies & Procedures: Overdrafts (PLL-084)
Designed to address the risk associated with overdrafts, including the responsibility to communicate the policy to customers, payment or return of items, collection, charge-off and account...
Bank Policies & Procedures: Pandemic Policy (PLM-253)
This may be used as a stand alone policy or incorporated into your Business Continuity Policy. Contains guidance from The Interagency Statement on Pandemic Planning. Includes sample Pandemic Plan.
Bank Policies & Procedures: Real Estate Lending (PLL-083)
Covers in detail the general policies that apply to all real estate secured lending, portfolio diversification, notices, pricing, CRE, product structure, IORR, construction lending, development...
Bank Policies & Procedures: Reg B: Equal Credit Opportunity (PLC-118)
Provides guidance for lenders on the requirements of this regulation as well as prescreening, the interview and application process, credit evaluation, action notifications, signature policy, and...
Bank Policies & Procedures: Reg CC: Expedite Funds Availability (PLC-107)
Establishes internal procedures to address proper funds availability, disclosure, collection of checks, return of unpaid checks, and payment of interest on deposited funds.