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FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE
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RIN 3064–ZA06
Request for Information on FDIC
Technical Assistance Offerings and
Delivery
Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation (FDIC).
ACTION: Notice and request for
information.
AGENCY:
The Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation is issuing this
request for information to seek public
input on additional steps the FDIC
could take to support effective
management and operation of FDICsupervised institutions through
technical assistance and collaboration
on safety and soundness and consumer
compliance matters. The FDIC is
seeking feedback from community
banks, other FDIC-supervised
institutions, and other interested parties
on existing FDIC methods and efforts to
provide technical assistance. The FDIC
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requests input on strategies to improve
the effectiveness of these offerings. The
FDIC also seeks comment on both the
content and delivery method of various
technical assistance offerings and on
other steps the FDIC could take to
increase the level and effectiveness of
technical assistance offered to the
industry.
DATES: Comments must be received by
August 6, 2019.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by RIN 3064–ZA06, by any of
the following methods:
• Agency Website: https://
www.fdic.gov/regulations/laws/federal/.
Follow the instructions for submitting
comments on the Agency website.
• Email: Comments@fdic.gov. Include
RIN 3064–ZA06 in the subject line of
the message.
• Mail: Robert E. Feldman, Executive
Secretary, Attention: Comments, Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation, 550 17th
Street NW, Washington, DC 20429.
Include RIN 3064–ZA06 in the subject
line of the letter.
• Hand Delivery: Comments may be
hand delivered to the guard station at
the rear of the 550 17th Street Building
(located on F Street) on business days
between 7:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.
Public Inspection: All comments
received for this request for information
must include the agency name and RIN
3064–ZA06. All comments received will
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be posted without change to https://
www.fdic.gov/regulations/laws/federal/
—including any personal information
provided—for public inspection. Paper
copies of public comments may be
ordered from the FDIC Public
Information Center, 3501 North Fairfax
Drive, Room E–1002, Arlington, VA
22226 by telephone at (877) 275–3342 or
(703) 562–2200.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Kathleen E. Jones, Case Manager, (816)
234–8143, KathJones@fdic.gov; or
Thaddeus King, Policy Analyst, (202)
898–3541, thking@fdic.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The FDIC
is responsible for maintaining stability
and public confidence in the nation’s
financial system by insuring deposits,
examining and supervising financial
institutions for safety and soundness
and consumer protection, making large
and complex financial institutions
resolvable, and managing receiverships.
In order to accomplish this mission, the
FDIC provides technical assistance to
financial institutions. As described
further below, the FDIC is soliciting
comment on strategies to improve the
effectiveness of technical assistance to
FDIC-supervised institutions.
Overview of Request for Information
The Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation (FDIC or Agency) is issuing
this request for information to seek
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public input on additional steps the
FDIC can take to improve the efficacy
and value of technical assistance
offerings to supervised institutions. The
FDIC seeks to provide technical
assistance, particularly to community
banks, on relevant and useful bank
regulatory and supervisory topics,
including recent regulatory changes and
emerging issues. Ongoing collaboration
with supervised institutions, including
requests for technical assistance, is a
key component of the FDIC’s effort to
identify and mitigate risk to individual
supervised institutions and to the
overall financial system. Accordingly,
the FDIC is soliciting comment on how
to maximize its efforts in providing this
assistance.
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Current Delivery Channels for
Technical Assistance
The FDIC uses various methods of
technical assistance to educate and
assist insured depository institutions
regarding regulations, policies, and
guidance. These forms of assistance
include, but are not limited to:
• Technical Assistance Videos
• Directors’ Resource Center
• Director/Banker Colleges
• Teleconferences and Webinars
• Community Bank Resource Kits
• Regional Compliance Newsletters
• Individual Assistance to Institutions
Suggested Topics for Commenters
To support bank risk management and
compliance efforts and reduce burden
for institutions, both in terms of
expending fewer resources to find
relevant information and decreasing the
amount of information that needs to be
reviewed, the FDIC is seeking input on
how best to support effective
management and operation of FDICsupervised institutions through
improved technical assistance. The
FDIC encourages comments from all
interested members of the public,
including but not limited to, insured
depository institutions, other financial
institutions or companies, and other
members of the financial services
industry. Detailed and specific
comments, including whether the
commenter prefers one form of
assistance or support over another,
would be helpful to the FDIC.
In addition to feedback on the FDIC’s
technical assistance initiatives
described above, the FDIC requests
input on the following specific topics
and questions related to the FDIC’s
technical assistance:
Technical Assistance Videos
(1) The FDIC began issuing technical
assistance videos in 2013. The target
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audience for these videos includes bank
directors or bank officers.
a. Have you used any of these
technical assistance videos?
b. If so, describe how you use the
videos within your institution.
c. Which have been most helpful to
your directors?
d. Which have been most helpful to
management?
(2) In the last year, the FDIC changed
the format of the videos to voice-over
recordings. This format allows the FDIC
to update videos more quickly and at a
lower cost. The first video issued using
this new format is the Bank Secrecy Act
video released in December 2018. What
are your thoughts on the new format?
(3) The FDIC’s Technical Assistance
Video Program provides videos for bank
directors (including new directors) and
management and staff.
a. Are the topics for each group
comprehensive and useful?
b. Is it more useful for the target
audience of these videos to be bank
directors, management, or staff?
c. Would you like to see videos for
additional groups (smaller subsets of
bank staff, for example)?
(4) The FDIC seeks to provide
technical assistance videos on topics
that provide the most benefit to
community bankers.
a. Of the current videos offered,
which do you believe are the most
important for the FDIC to retain and
continue to maintain and update over
time?
b. Are there any additional videos the
FDIC should consider adding to its
video program?
c. Are there any videos that should be
removed from the current Technical
Assistance Video Program?
Directors’ Resource Center
(5) Currently, the Directors’ Resource
Center is organized by product (videos,
supervisory guidance, etc.). The FDIC is
considering how to improve the
Directors’ Resource Center. One step
underway is moving to a topic-based
resource center where significant
information regarding a single topic will
be located. The Bank Secrecy Act
resource page, which was released on
May 21, 2019, is the first issuance under
this initiative and can be found at
https://www.fdic.gov/regulations/
examinations/bsa/.
a. Do you prefer topic-based resource
pages or product-based resource pages?
Please explain.
b. Using the Bank Secrecy Act
resource page as an example, please
provide feedback on the format of such
a topic-based resource center.
c. What suggestions do you have to
further improve this format?
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d. Are there additional types of
information that would be useful to add
to such a page?
e. Please list additional topics for
which the FDIC should develop a
resource page.
Director/Banker Colleges
(6) The FDIC provides course
offerings for bank directors and officers
through its Director/Banker College
program. These programs are offered
locally by the FDIC’s six regional
offices, and topics are chosen based on
the local areas.
a. Have you attended one of these
events in the last two years?
b. Do you find these one-day seminars
helpful?
c. Is the length sufficient to meet your
needs?
d. Are there any topics you would like
to see addressed?
Teleconferences and Webinars
(7) The FDIC hosts teleconferences
and webinars to provide timely
information to the industry.
a. Are the teleconferences and
webinars useful?
b. What would make them more
useful?
c. Please list any topics for which you
would like the FDIC to host a
teleconference or webinar.
d. Provide feedback on the
announcement of teleconferences and
webinars, including the length of time
between the announcement and the
event.
e. Should the FDIC establish a regular
schedule for teleconferences and
webinars with specific topics to be
announced closer to the date of the
event?
f. Are the materials provided for
teleconferences and webinars helpful?
g. How can we increase the
effectiveness of materials? For example,
should audio files and other materials
be available after the events and posted
on the topic-based resource pages, if
applicable?
Community Bank Resource Kit
(8) The FDIC created a Community
Bank Resource Kit in 2016 that included
a reprint of the agency’s Pocket Guide
for Directors, information on the
Technical Assistance Video Program,
information on cybersecurity and cyber
resources, various reprints of
Supervisory Insights articles, and
information on other topics. These Kits
were provided at FDIC Director/Banker
Colleges and sent to each state nonmember bank.
a. Have these Kits been useful to your
institution? If so, were the Kits more
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useful to board members or to bank
officers and staff?
b. Would you be interested in an
updated Community Bank Resource Kit?
If so, what materials or information
would you like to see included?
c. Would you prefer the Kit in print
(hard copy), electronic delivery, or
both?
third party that you felt could be
provided by the FDIC? Please describe.
Dated at Washington, DC, on June 3, 2019.
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
Valerie Best,
Assistant Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2019–11911 Filed 6–6–19; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6714–01–P
Regional Compliance Newsletters
(9) Each of the FDIC’s six regions
produces a quarterly consumer
compliance newsletter. These regional
newsletters are sent via email to all state
nonmember banks within the region.
The newsletters provide information on
FDIC initiatives, updates to regulatory
guidance, common examination
findings, and other topics.
a. Are these newsletters helpful to
your institution?
b. Do you prefer longer, more in-depth
articles that address a compliance topic
or shorter, briefer articles that provide a
quick update?
c. Is there additional information you
would like to see addressed in the
newsletters?
d. Is email an effective delivery
method? Why or why not?
Individual Assistance to Institutions
(10) How often have you contacted
the FDIC in the last year to request
technical assistance unrelated to an
examination? In the last five years?
(11) If you requested technical
assistance unrelated to an examination,
on what topics did you request
technical assistance? Did you contact
the local field office, the regional office,
or the Washington Office for assistance?
(12) What type of assistance was most
effective? What was least effective?
(13) What steps did you take based on
the assistance provided?
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Other Items
(14) In responding to the questions
below, it would be helpful to indicate in
rank order, or note preference or priority
among, technical assistance offerings
that you or your institution find most
helpful.
a. Which technical assistance
offerings do your board members prefer?
b. Which technical assistance
offerings do your bank officers prefer?
(15) What other methods, if any,
should the FDIC consider using to
provide technical assistance?
(16) Have you attended training or
received technical assistance from
another regulator (state or Federal) that
was more helpful than that provided by
the FDIC? Please explain.
(17) Have you attended training or
received technical assistance from a
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FEDERAL MEDIATION AND
CONCILIATION SERVICE
Labor-Management Relations
Information Collection Requests
Federal Mediation and
Conciliation Service.
ACTION: 60-Day notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:
The Federal Mediation and
Conciliation Service (FMCS), as part of
its continuing effort to reduce
paperwork burden of arbitrators and
parties that request arbitration services
in accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, invites the
general public and other Federal
Agencies to take this opportunity to
comment on the following information
collection request, Request for
Arbitration Services (Agency Form R–
43). This information collection request
was previously approved by the Office
of Management Budget (OMB), and we
are requesting a reinstatement without
substantive changes, and a change in the
fees collected. This information
collection request was assigned the
OMB control number 3076–0016.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on
or before August 6, 2019.
ADDRESSES: Submit written comments
by mail to the Office of Arbitration
Services, Federal Mediation and
Conciliation Service, 250 E Street SW,
Washington, DC 20427 or by contacting
the person whose name appears under
the section headed FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT.
Comments may be submitted also by
fax at (202) 606–8103 or electronic mail
(email) to apearlstein@fmcs.gov. All
comments must be identified by the
appropriate agency form number.
No confidential business information
(CBI) should be submitted through
email. Information submitted as a
comment concerning this document
may be claimed confidential by marking
any part or all of the information as
‘‘CBI’’. Information so marked will not
be disclosed but a copy of the comment
that does contain CBI must be submitted
for inclusion in the public record.
Information not marked confidential
may be disclosed publicly by FMCS
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without prior notice. All written
comments will be available for
inspection in Room 7113 at the
Washington, DC address above from
8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through
Friday, excluding legal holidays.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Arthur Pearlstein, Director of
Arbitration Services, FMCS, 250 E Street
SW, Washington, DC 20427. Telephone
and fax number (202) 606–8103, and
email, apearlstein@fmcs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Copies of
the agency form are available from the
Office of Arbitration Services by calling,
faxing or writing Arthur Pearlstein at
the address above. Please ask for the
form by title and agency form number.
I. Information Collection Request
Agency: Federal Mediation and
Conciliation Service.
Form Number: OMB No. 3076–0016.
Type of Request: Reinstatement of a
collection without change in the
substance or method of collection.
Name of Form: Request for
Arbitration Panel (FMCS Form R–43).
Affected Entities: Employers and their
representatives, and labor unions, their
representatives and employees, who
request arbitration services.
Frequency: This form is completed
each time an employer or labor union
requests a panel of arbitrators.
Abstract: Pursuant to 29 U.S.C. 171(b)
and 29 CFR part 1404, FMCS offers
panels of arbitrators for selection by
labor and management to resolve
grievances and disagreements arising
under their collective bargaining
agreements and to deal with fact finding
and interest arbitration issues as well.
This form is used to obtain information
such as the parties’ names, addresses,
and the type of assistance needed.
FMCS uses this information to compile
panels, selecting arbitrators based in
part on such factors as dispute location
and issue expertise. The purpose of this
information collection is to facilitate the
processing of the parties’ request for
arbitration assistance; it also provides
information about the fee to be collected
for the agency’s service. No third party
notification or public disclosure burden
is associated with this collection.
Burden: The current total annual
burden estimate is that FMCS will
receive requests from approximately
16,000 respondents per year. The form
takes about 10 minutes to complete.
II. Request for Comments
FMCS solicits comments to:
(i) Evaluate whether the proposed
collections of information are necessary
for the proper performance of the
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FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION
RIN 3064-ZA06
Request for Information on FDIC Technical Assistance Offerings
and Delivery
AGENCY: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).
ACTION: Notice and request for information.
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SUMMARY: The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is issuing this
request for information to seek public input on additional steps the
FDIC could take to support effective management and operation of FDIC-
supervised institutions through technical assistance and collaboration
on safety and soundness and consumer compliance matters. The FDIC is
seeking feedback from community banks, other FDIC-supervised
institutions, and other interested parties on existing FDIC methods and
efforts to provide technical assistance. The FDIC requests input on
strategies to improve the effectiveness of these offerings. The FDIC
also seeks comment on both the content and delivery method of various
technical assistance offerings and on other steps the FDIC could take
to increase the level and effectiveness of technical assistance offered
to the industry.
DATES: Comments must be received by August 6, 2019.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by RIN 3064-ZA06, by any
of the following methods:
Agency Website: https://www.fdic.gov/regulations/laws/federal/. Follow the instructions for submitting comments on the Agency
website.
Email: [email protected]. Include RIN 3064-ZA06 in the
subject line of the message.
Mail: Robert E. Feldman, Executive Secretary, Attention:
Comments, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, 550 17th Street NW,
Washington, DC 20429. Include RIN 3064-ZA06 in the subject line of the
letter.
Hand Delivery: Comments may be hand delivered to the guard
station at the rear of the 550 17th Street Building (located on F
Street) on business days between 7:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.
Public Inspection: All comments received for this request for
information must include the agency name and RIN 3064-ZA06. All
comments received will be posted without change to https://www.fdic.gov/regulations/laws/federal/--including any personal information
provided--for public inspection. Paper copies of public comments may be
ordered from the FDIC Public Information Center, 3501 North Fairfax
Drive, Room E-1002, Arlington, VA 22226 by telephone at (877) 275-3342
or (703) 562-2200.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kathleen E. Jones, Case Manager, (816)
234-8143, [email protected]; or Thaddeus King, Policy Analyst, (202)
898-3541, [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The FDIC is responsible for maintaining
stability and public confidence in the nation's financial system by
insuring deposits, examining and supervising financial institutions for
safety and soundness and consumer protection, making large and complex
financial institutions resolvable, and managing receiverships. In order
to accomplish this mission, the FDIC provides technical assistance to
financial institutions. As described further below, the FDIC is
soliciting comment on strategies to improve the effectiveness of
technical assistance to FDIC-supervised institutions.
Overview of Request for Information
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC or Agency) is
issuing this request for information to seek
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public input on additional steps the FDIC can take to improve the
efficacy and value of technical assistance offerings to supervised
institutions. The FDIC seeks to provide technical assistance,
particularly to community banks, on relevant and useful bank regulatory
and supervisory topics, including recent regulatory changes and
emerging issues. Ongoing collaboration with supervised institutions,
including requests for technical assistance, is a key component of the
FDIC's effort to identify and mitigate risk to individual supervised
institutions and to the overall financial system. Accordingly, the FDIC
is soliciting comment on how to maximize its efforts in providing this
assistance.
Current Delivery Channels for Technical Assistance
The FDIC uses various methods of technical assistance to educate
and assist insured depository institutions regarding regulations,
policies, and guidance. These forms of assistance include, but are not
limited to:
Technical Assistance Videos
Directors' Resource Center
Director/Banker Colleges
Teleconferences and Webinars
Community Bank Resource Kits
Regional Compliance Newsletters
Individual Assistance to Institutions
Suggested Topics for Commenters
To support bank risk management and compliance efforts and reduce
burden for institutions, both in terms of expending fewer resources to
find relevant information and decreasing the amount of information that
needs to be reviewed, the FDIC is seeking input on how best to support
effective management and operation of FDIC-supervised institutions
through improved technical assistance. The FDIC encourages comments
from all interested members of the public, including but not limited
to, insured depository institutions, other financial institutions or
companies, and other members of the financial services industry.
Detailed and specific comments, including whether the commenter prefers
one form of assistance or support over another, would be helpful to the
FDIC.
In addition to feedback on the FDIC's technical assistance
initiatives described above, the FDIC requests input on the following
specific topics and questions related to the FDIC's technical
assistance:
Technical Assistance Videos
(1) The FDIC began issuing technical assistance videos in 2013. The
target audience for these videos includes bank directors or bank
officers.
a. Have you used any of these technical assistance videos?
b. If so, describe how you use the videos within your institution.
c. Which have been most helpful to your directors?
d. Which have been most helpful to management?
(2) In the last year, the FDIC changed the format of the videos to
voice-over recordings. This format allows the FDIC to update videos
more quickly and at a lower cost. The first video issued using this new
format is the Bank Secrecy Act video released in December 2018. What
are your thoughts on the new format?
(3) The FDIC's Technical Assistance Video Program provides videos
for bank directors (including new directors) and management and staff.
a. Are the topics for each group comprehensive and useful?
b. Is it more useful for the target audience of these videos to be
bank directors, management, or staff?
c. Would you like to see videos for additional groups (smaller
subsets of bank staff, for example)?
(4) The FDIC seeks to provide technical assistance videos on topics
that provide the most benefit to community bankers.
a. Of the current videos offered, which do you believe are the most
important for the FDIC to retain and continue to maintain and update
over time?
b. Are there any additional videos the FDIC should consider adding
to its video program?
c. Are there any videos that should be removed from the current
Technical Assistance Video Program?
Directors' Resource Center
(5) Currently, the Directors' Resource Center is organized by
product (videos, supervisory guidance, etc.). The FDIC is considering
how to improve the Directors' Resource Center. One step underway is
moving to a topic-based resource center where significant information
regarding a single topic will be located. The Bank Secrecy Act resource
page, which was released on May 21, 2019, is the first issuance under
this initiative and can be found at https://www.fdic.gov/regulations/examinations/bsa/.
a. Do you prefer topic-based resource pages or product-based
resource pages? Please explain.
b. Using the Bank Secrecy Act resource page as an example, please
provide feedback on the format of such a topic-based resource center.
c. What suggestions do you have to further improve this format?
d. Are there additional types of information that would be useful
to add to such a page?
e. Please list additional topics for which the FDIC should develop
a resource page.
Director/Banker Colleges
(6) The FDIC provides course offerings for bank directors and
officers through its Director/Banker College program. These programs
are offered locally by the FDIC's six regional offices, and topics are
chosen based on the local areas.
a. Have you attended one of these events in the last two years?
b. Do you find these one-day seminars helpful?
c. Is the length sufficient to meet your needs?
d. Are there any topics you would like to see addressed?
Teleconferences and Webinars
(7) The FDIC hosts teleconferences and webinars to provide timely
information to the industry.
a. Are the teleconferences and webinars useful?
b. What would make them more useful?
c. Please list any topics for which you would like the FDIC to host
a teleconference or webinar.
d. Provide feedback on the announcement of teleconferences and
webinars, including the length of time between the announcement and the
event.
e. Should the FDIC establish a regular schedule for teleconferences
and webinars with specific topics to be announced closer to the date of
the event?
f. Are the materials provided for teleconferences and webinars
helpful?
g. How can we increase the effectiveness of materials? For example,
should audio files and other materials be available after the events
and posted on the topic-based resource pages, if applicable?
Community Bank Resource Kit
(8) The FDIC created a Community Bank Resource Kit in 2016 that
included a reprint of the agency's Pocket Guide for Directors,
information on the Technical Assistance Video Program, information on
cybersecurity and cyber resources, various reprints of Supervisory
Insights articles, and information on other topics. These Kits were
provided at FDIC Director/Banker Colleges and sent to each state non-
member bank.
a. Have these Kits been useful to your institution? If so, were the
Kits more
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useful to board members or to bank officers and staff?
b. Would you be interested in an updated Community Bank Resource
Kit? If so, what materials or information would you like to see
included?
c. Would you prefer the Kit in print (hard copy), electronic
delivery, or both?
Regional Compliance Newsletters
(9) Each of the FDIC's six regions produces a quarterly consumer
compliance newsletter. These regional newsletters are sent via email to
all state nonmember banks within the region. The newsletters provide
information on FDIC initiatives, updates to regulatory guidance, common
examination findings, and other topics.
a. Are these newsletters helpful to your institution?
b. Do you prefer longer, more in-depth articles that address a
compliance topic or shorter, briefer articles that provide a quick
update?
c. Is there additional information you would like to see addressed
in the newsletters?
d. Is email an effective delivery method? Why or why not?
Individual Assistance to Institutions
(10) How often have you contacted the FDIC in the last year to
request technical assistance unrelated to an examination? In the last
five years?
(11) If you requested technical assistance unrelated to an
examination, on what topics did you request technical assistance? Did
you contact the local field office, the regional office, or the
Washington Office for assistance?
(12) What type of assistance was most effective? What was least
effective?
(13) What steps did you take based on the assistance provided?
Other Items
(14) In responding to the questions below, it would be helpful to
indicate in rank order, or note preference or priority among, technical
assistance offerings that you or your institution find most helpful.
a. Which technical assistance offerings do your board members
prefer?
b. Which technical assistance offerings do your bank officers
prefer?
(15) What other methods, if any, should the FDIC consider using to
provide technical assistance?
(16) Have you attended training or received technical assistance
from another regulator (state or Federal) that was more helpful than
that provided by the FDIC? Please explain.
(17) Have you attended training or received technical assistance
from a third party that you felt could be provided by the FDIC? Please
describe.
Dated at Washington, DC, on June 3, 2019.
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
Valerie Best,
Assistant Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2019-11911 Filed 6-6-19; 8:45 am]
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