Bank Boards of Directors: Governance and Oversight Measures to Mitigate Risks Under Evolving Regulatory Frameworks
Navigating Bank Failures, Climate Change, Cybersecurity, Data Privacy and Access to Banking and Credit
Recording of a 90-minute premium CLE video webinar with Q&A
This CLE course will offer guidance to bank counsel on critical areas of risk that impact U.S. banks--bank failures, climate change, cybersecurity, and social justice--and steps the bank boards they advise should take to address the evolving regulatory framework around these issues.
Outline
- Current banking risks for bank boards: legal and regulatory
- Climate change: risk management, disclosure
- Cybersecurity: current and emerging risks and issues in focus for regulators
- Consumer protection, equal access to banking services, anti-discrimination initiatives
Benefits
The panel will review these and other critical questions:
- How should banks go about assessing the financial risks associated with climate change?
- How are banks mitigating the risks of cyberattacks in light of the increased use of online and mobile app banking?
- What kinds of cybersecurity protocols should a board put in place for third-party service providers?
- What steps should banks be taking to protect themselves, and what disclosure controls should be in place to respond to a cyber incident?
- What are the potential legal and regulatory consequences of discriminatory banking practices?
Faculty
Nicole Friedlander
Partner
Sullivan & Cromwell
Ms. Friedlander is a partner in Sullivan & Cromwell’s Criminal Defense and Investigations Group and co-head... | Read More
Ms. Friedlander is a partner in Sullivan & Cromwell’s Criminal Defense and Investigations Group and co-head of its Cybersecurity Practice. She represents clients in complex internal investigations, regulatory enforcement proceedings and criminal matters involving every aspect of white-collar crime, including fraud, FCPA, insider trading, theft of trade secrets, money laundering and tax matters. Ms. Friedlander also advises major corporations and Boards of Directors in cybersecurity planning and incident response. She currently serves as co-chair of the New York Chapter of the Women’s White Collar Defense Association and as a member of the New York City Bar Association’s White Collar Crime Committee. Ms. Friedlander has been ranked by Chambers USA 2021 for White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations, where sources praised her “impress[ive] facility and judgment,” her ability to “quietly command[] the room with her skilled preparation,” and her standout trial skills (“She is so good in court.”).
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Marc Treviño
Partner
Sullivan & Cromwell
Mr. Treviño is the co-head of the firm’s corporate governance practice, the managing partner of its... | Read More
Mr. Treviño is the co-head of the firm’s corporate governance practice, the managing partner of its executive compensation group, and a founding member of its financial institutions group. He is a recognized leader in structuring and counseling senior executives and boards in significant matters involving reputation, overlapping regulatory regimes, fiduciary conflicts and multiple jurisdictions, with a particular emphasis on matters involving financial institutions. Mr. Treviño teaches Corporate Crisis Management at the Yale Law School and is a co-author of The Public Company Deskbook, which has been hailed as “the bible for securities lawyers” by Fortune. For over twenty years Mr. Treviño has represented prominent institutions and individuals in their most public and challenging transactions. He also lectures and writes extensively, and is often quoted with respect to corporate governance and compensation matters, including for the American Bar Association, Bank Directors Magazine, The Corporate Counsel, The Corporate Governance Advisor, Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals and Wall Street Journal. Mr. Treviño is also on the Advisory Board for the Harvard Law School Program on Corporate Governance.
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Benjamin H. Weiner
Partner
Sullivan & Cromwell
Mr. Weiner is a partner in Sullivan & Cromwell’s Financial Services and Capital Markets groups. His practice... | Read More
Mr. Weiner is a partner in Sullivan & Cromwell’s Financial Services and Capital Markets groups. His practice involves bank regulatory matters, including capital, liquidity, stress testing and resolution planning, and a broad range of transactions, including registered and unregistered securities offerings, other capital markets transactions, and public and private mergers and acquisitions. He also advises corporate clients on ongoing public company matters, including disclosure and corporate governance.
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