Whether you are a full-time compliance officer or an internal auditor, or if compliance is one of your many hats, this conference will help you identify and manage cutting-edge issues that are central to a successful compliance or audit program.
2025 Agenda
9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Recent Developments in Illinois and Federal Banking Law
Carly Berard, Associate General Counsel, Illinois Bankers Association
10:15 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
Regulatory Roundtable
Moderator: Carly Berard, Associate General Counsel, Illinois Bankers Association
Panelists:
Bridget Castle, Case Manager, Bank and Thrift Supervision, IDFPR
Jonathan March, Consumer Compliance Lead Expert, OCC
Kristi Nailor, Supervisory Examiner, FRB St. Louis
Sarah Troehler, Supervisory Examiner, FDIC
11:45 a.m. - 12:25 p.m.
Lunch
12:25 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.
Preparing for an Illinois Community Reinvestment Act Exam
Susana Soriano, Director of Banking, IDFPR
Jayesh Hines-Shah, Deputy General Counsel for Banking, IDFPR
1:20 p.m. - 2:10 p.m.
Washington D.C. Update: A Fireside Chat
Margaret Liu, General Counsel, Conference of State Bank Supervisors
Ben Jackson, EVP, Government Relations, IBA
2:15 p.m. - 3:05 p.m.
The Full Circle: Redlining Examples and Risk Mitigation Strategies
Adam Witmer, President and CEO of Compliance Cohort, LLC
3:10 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Approaching AI
Justin Steffen, Partner, Barack Ferrazzano Kirschbaum & Nagelberg LLP
2025 Session Descriptions
Recent Developments in Illinois and Federal Banking Law
Carly Berard, Associate General Counsel, Illinois Bankers Association
Learn about the latest updates in Illinois and federal law. We’ll cover novel restrictions on interchange fees, significant UCC changes for digital assets, rules implementing the Illinois Community Reinvestment Act, standards for power of attorney documents, data matching to identify delinquent taxpayers, sweeping federal rules changes, major court decisions, and more! We’ll provide in-depth analyses and review history and context, helping you communicate these changes to business lines and senior management.
Regulatory Roundtable
Moderator: Carly Berard, Associate General Counsel, Illinois Bankers Association
Panelists:
Bridget Castle, Case Manager, Bank and Thrift Supervision, IDFPR
Jonathan March, Consumer Compliance Lead Expert, OCC
Kristi Nailor, Supervisory Examiner, FRB St. Louis
Sarah Troehler, Supervisory Examiner, FDIC
Preparing for an Illinois Community Reinvestment Act Exam
Susana Soriano, Director of Banking, IDFPR
Jayesh Hines-Shah, Deputy General Counsel for Banking, IDFPR
Last year, Illinois adopted rules to implement its state-level Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), and Illinois CRA examinations are now underway. In this session, we’ll hear from the Acting Director and Deputy General Counsel of IDFPR’s Division of Banking about how the exams are going, what banks can expect from their examiners, how they should prepare, and more!
Washington D.C. Update: A Fireside Chat
Margaret Liu, General Counsel, Conference of State Bank Supervisors
Ben Jackson, EVP, Government Relations, IBA
Join us for an engaging fireside chat between the General Counsel for the Conference of State Bank Supervisors and the IBA’s head lobbyist that delves into recent and forthcoming changes in federal banking regulations. This session will explore the implications of recent policy shifts, including the rollback of certain consumer protection measures, leadership changes at key regulatory agencies, and the administration’s stance on digital financial technologies.
The Full Circle: Redlining Examples and Risk Mitigation Strategies
Adam Witmer, President and CEO, Compliance Cohort, LLC
Redlining is one of the most complicated hot topics of fair lending today. In this session, we’ll look at how redlining originated and why it continues to be a focus of regulators, then we’ll walk through several redlining cases from the past two decades to highlight what examiners are looking for and how expectations have evolved. Finally, we’ll discuss a straightforward framework you can use to analyze redlining risk at your own financial institution, with practical risk mitigation strategies that can help reduce redlining risk.
Approaching AI
Justin Steffen, Partner, Barack Ferrazzano Kirschbaum & Nagelberg LLP
Artificial Intelligence is transforming the banking industry, but pitfalls abound. In this session, we’ll discuss how banks are currently using AI, how they can use it in the months and years ahead, and how they can address the risks attendant to AI applications. In particular, we’ll cover fraud prevention and other compliance applications.