© Dr. John T. Whiting All Rights Reserved Slide 1 Achieving Compliance with GBLA & Other Laws and Regulations Impacting on Financial Institutions A Check List and Strategy for Financial Institution Senior Managers & Boards of Directors

© Dr. John T. Whiting All Rights Reserved Slide 2 Federal Law and Regulation

© Dr. John T. Whiting All Rights Reserved Slide 3 Achieving Compliance is a Challenging Task…

© Dr. John T. Whiting All Rights Reserved Slide 4 Laws & Regulations Governing Financial Institutions Laws: 12 USC 146 (d): Home Owners’ Loan Act 12 USC 1867 (c): Bank Service Company Act 12 USC 1882: Bank Protection Act 15 USC 6801 and 6805 (b): Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act Federal Reserve Board: 12 CFR Part 208, Appendix D-2: Interagency Guidelines Establishing Standards for Safeguarding Customer Information 12 CFR Parts and (i): Protection of customer information 12 CFR Part 225, Appendix F: Interagency Guidelines Establishing Standards for Safeguarding Customer Information Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation: 12 CFR Part 364, Appendix A: Interagency Guidelines Establishing Standards for Safety and Soundness 12 CFR Part 364, Appendix B: Interagency Guidelines Establishing Standards for Safeguarding Customer Information National Credit Union Administration: 12 DFR Part 721: Federal Credit Union Incidental Powers Activities 12 CFR Part 748: Security Program, Report of Crime and Catastrophic Act, Bank Secrecy Act Compliance, and Appendix A – Guidelines for Safeguarding Member Information 12 CFR Part 716: Privacy of Consumer Financial Information 12 CFR Part 741: Requirements for Insurance 12 CFR Part 740: Advertising Office of the Comptroller of the Currency: 12 CFR Part 30, Appendix A: [Interagency] Guidelines Establishing Standards for Safety and Soundness 12 CFR Part 30, Appendix B: [Interagency] Guidelines Establishing Standards for Safeguarding Customer Information Office of Thrift Supervision: 12 CFR Part 570, Appendix A: Interagency Guidelines Establishing Standards for Safety and Soundness 12 CFR Part 570, Appendix B: Interagency Guidelines Establishing Standards for Safeguarding Customer Information

© Dr. John T. Whiting All Rights Reserved Slide 5 Policy Change Escalating of IT Management to the Strategic Business Level IT regarded as a tactical asset and managed at the tactical/ technical level by IT Managers. IT integrated into the strategic business plan and managed by the CEO and the Financial Institution’s Board of Directors.

© Dr. John T. Whiting All Rights Reserved Slide 6 Financial Institution Laws and Regulations Compliance Check List  Is the Financial Institution (FI) fully aware of the Laws and Regulations that must be complied with?  Does the FI have policy defining the process for achieving compliance with laws and regulations?  Does the FI have a process to determine the financial institution’s status and vulnerability regarding compliance with laws and regulations?  Has the FI conducted a full enterprise audit of the institution’s status of compliance?  Has the FI collected valid audit data and analyzed these data to measure the discrepancy between compliance requirements and the financial institution’s status?  Has the FI adopted a Laws & Regulations Compliance Plan (LRCP) to guide the compliance effort, define projects and budget resources to achieve compliance?  Has the LRCP been integrated into the FI strategic plan?  Has the LRCP been implemented?  Are the outcomes measured by formative and summative evaluation?  Is the FIGCP ongoing with refinement and upgrades based on continuous status monitoring, assessment and prioritizing as a routine part of the strategic plan.

© Dr. John T. Whiting All Rights Reserved Slide 7 Phase I - Phase II - Phase III - Phase IV - Phase V - Baseline Company Audit to Identify Government Regulation Compliance Status:  Business Policy Status  Technology/User Status  Compliance status FI Government Compliance Plan (FIGCP) Development and Targeting of Compliance Priorities Prescription of Priority Compliance Targets Projects Priority Compliance Project Implementation & Formative Evaluation Priority Project Completion, Summative Evaluation and Status Re-assessment Discovery of Compliance Status, Discrepancy Analysis and Needs Assessment Diagnosis of Status, FIGCP Development & Priority Targeting Priority Compliance Project Identification Within Key Business Functions & Across the Enterprise Implementation of Priority Projects, Formative Evaluation to Document Progress based on FIGCP Completion of Priority Compliance Projects, Summative Evaluation and Documentation to Meet Reporting Requirements Note: The process is continuous and integrated into the strategic planning and budgeting process! The E-BMC Model for Achieving Compliance

© Dr. John T. Whiting All Rights Reserved Slide 8 Partnering with E-BMC to Achieve FI Compliance The Advantages: The FI can take immediate action, directed by an expert partner, to design direct, lead staff and monitor the FI’s compliance program A compliance program, based on the E-BMC Methodology, that is compatible with and easily integrated into the FI’s strategic business plan and budgeting process A compliance plan based on FI’s staff involvement yielding increased staff awareness, capacity to follow laws and regulations, and use of FI resources A highly cost effective alternative to outsourcing compliance work to a third party accounting, auditing or service provider outside of the FI.

© Dr. John T. Whiting All Rights Reserved Slide 9 Interested in more information… Contact Dr. John T. Whiting at: Village Way – Suite F-6 Vernon, NJ 07462