Comptroller of the Currency Hosts Community Bank Directors Workshops in Greenville, South Carolina

April 14, 2009

WASHINGTON, April 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency will host workshops for national community bank directors in Greenville, South Carolina, at the Hyatt Regency, May 5, 2009.

The workshop provides practical information that expands bank directors’ skills and understanding of issues facing their banks. It covers compliance risk (Compliance Risk: What Directors Need to Know).

The workshop costs $65. Attendees receive pre-course reading and course materials, an OCC telephone seminar CD, a community bank supervision handbook, other supervisory material, a continental breakfast, and lunch. The workshop is limited to the first 50 registrants and is geared primarily to outside directors of national community banks with assets of less than $1 billion. Management directors may also find the workshop beneficial.

For information or to register online, visit http://www.occ.gov/conference.htm or call 336-451-0557.

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