RELEASE DATE: APRIL 21, 2025
ANTICIPATED DURATION: 60 MINUTES

Credit union mergers have become a defining feature of today’s financial services landscape. As the pace of mergers accelerates, they are increasingly used as a strategic tool by both credit unions and regulators. However, navigating the merger process requires a deep understanding of its complexities, challenges, and opportunities.  Mergers are highly regulated, and even minor missteps can lead to costly delays, wasted resources, or jeopardize the entire transaction. For credit unions, understanding the potential benefits, addressing common pitfalls, and managing the technical aspects are essential to ensuring a successful outcome.  This session will provide a comprehensive exploration of the merger process, offering insights into its strategic potential, practical considerations, and regulatory requirements.

SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT

Attorney, author, consultant and nationally recognized trainer, David A. Reed is a partner in the law firm of Reed and Jolly, PLLC.  Through Reed and Jolly, Mr. Reed provides guidance to credit unions concerning a variety of matters including the establishment and revision of policies and procedures, organizational compliance, collections, security, contractual agreements, regulatory matters and corporate governance. In addition to his legal expertise, Mr. Reed is a Certified Fraud Examiner and Chairman of a Supervisory Committee. A former trial attorney and Vice President and General Counsel of Apple Federal Credit Union, Mr. Reed is particularly noted in the areas of credit union operations, governance, security, bankruptcy and collections.  He has been selected to train federal and state field examination staff on numerous issues including BSA, Field of Membership, ID Theft Red Flags, S.A.F.E Act, Third Party Contract Management, Cybersecurity and Bankruptcy.

LEARNING METHOD This training is available as an on-demand webinar, organized into chapters. Learners can choose to watch individual chapters or complete the entire program. Unlimited testing is provided as the last chapter. 

EXPIRY NOTE eTrain reserves the right to expire program links that may include information no longer valid such as regulation and rule changes. In most cases, we will expire a program no more than 4 weeks prior to an updated version being released. Expired programs will still appear in your My Account details area with EXPIRED and the year of the release in the title field. However, you will not be able to view the training or access the handouts.

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RELEASE DATE: APRIL 21, 2025
ANTICIPATED DURATION: 60 MINUTES

There’s a popular saying in compliance, “if it isn’t documented, it didn’t happen.”   We need to retain evidence of account ownership, opt-ins and opt-outs, account transactions, error resolution, the list goes on.  Anything and everything we do could be challenged at some point and we may need to defend our actions. We also need to be able to restore account balances and other information in the event of a disaster – either natural or man-made. That is why developing and maintaining a record retention program is vital to credit union operations.

This session will cover:

• Rules and regulations of record retention
• Developing a record retention program
• Record retention guidelines
• Best practices

SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT

Jamin Carlisle has 15 years of experience in banking and credit union compliance as well as the Credit Union Compliance Expert (CUCE) and BSA Compliance Specialist (BSACS) certifications. His primary areas of expertise include BSA/AML, vendor management, disaster recovery, and staff training. In addition to in-house credit union compliance experience, he has served on planning committees for fraud awareness and elder abuse conferences and given presentations to local community colleges, high schools, and community groups.

Aux is a CUSO (Credit Union Service Organization) located in Lakewood, Colorado, near Denver. Our company has been around since 1992, originally founded to assist credit unions with shared branching and service centers. Although we have evolved over the past two decades into something much more complex and diverse, one thing remains the same: our core reason for existence. We are here to help the people “who help the people,” as the old credit union saying goes – to help credit unions help their members.

LEARNING METHOD This training is available as an on-demand webinar, organized into chapters. Learners can choose to watch individual chapters or complete the entire program. Unlimited testing is provided as the last chapter. 

EXPIRY NOTE eTrain reserves the right to expire program links that may include information no longer valid such as regulation and rule changes. In most cases, we will expire a program no more than 4 weeks prior to an updated version being released. Expired programs will still appear in your My Account details area with EXPIRED and the year of the release in the title field. However, you will not be able to view the training or access the handouts.

RELEASE DATE: MAY 5, 2025
ANTICIPATED DURATION: 60 MINUTES

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SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT

Moore, Brewer & Wolfe, a Professional Corporation specializes in serving the legal needs of credit unions and credit union service organizations throughout the United States. With over 400 clients, the firm represents credit unions with assets ranging from less than one million to more than ten billion dollars, and organizations ranging from start-ups to established multi-state enterprises. With our robust team of attorneys, ours is one of the largest law firms dedicated to providing legal services to credit unions and credit union service organizations.

LEARNING METHOD This is an on-demand e-learning program requiring learners to interact and actively engage throughout the training.  

EXPIRY NOTE eTrain reserves the right to expire program links that may include information no longer valid such as regulation and rule changes. In most cases, we will expire a program no more than 4 weeks prior to an updated version being released. Expired programs will still appear in your My Account details area with EXPIRED and the year of the release in the title field. However, you will not be able to view the training or access the handouts.

RELEASE DATE: MAY 5, 2025
ANTICIPATED DURATION: 120 MINUTES

 Our subject matter expert is working on creating a program description for this title. Please check back soon for more details.

SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT

Moore, Brewer & Wolfe, a Professional Corporation specializes in serving the legal needs of credit unions and credit union service organizations throughout the United States. With over 400 clients, the firm represents credit unions with assets ranging from less than one million to more than ten billion dollars, and organizations ranging from start-ups to established multi-state enterprises. With our robust team of attorneys, ours is one of the largest law firms dedicated to providing legal services to credit unions and credit union service organizations.

LEARNING METHOD This is an on-demand e-learning program requiring learners to interact and actively engage throughout the training.  

EXPIRY NOTE eTrain reserves the right to expire program links that may include information no longer valid such as regulation and rule changes. In most cases, we will expire a program no more than 4 weeks prior to an updated version being released. Expired programs will still appear in your My Account details area with EXPIRED and the year of the release in the title field. However, you will not be able to view the training or access the handouts.

RELEASE DATE: MAY 5, 2025
ANTICIPATED DURATION: 60 MINUTES

Building on the topics covered in Contracts 101, the Contracts 102 course covers additional key contractual provisions, including performance, warranties, limitations of liability, and termination of contracts.   This is a “high-level” course that will provide suggested language and valuable examples.

Specifically, we’re going to cover:

• The importance of term and termination clauses;
• Termination for cause and termination for convenience (full and limited);
• Deconversion costs and limitations;
• The “ins and outs “of Service Level Agreements, including remedies;
• The importance of including a Performance Warranty;
• The right way to allow for product/service testing, correction, and acceptance of deliverables;
• Whether you need source code escrow for licensed software;
• What software warranties a vendor should provide;
• Limitation of liability issues; and
• Understanding the need for and the differences between indemnity, mutual indemnity, infringement indemnity, and third-party claims indemnity.

SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT

As Managing Partner of Okun Loritz LLP, attorney Dan Loritz assists the firm’s clients with bond/insurance claims, business and consumer deposit and lending documentation, contract review and negotiation, regulatory compliance, employment law and personnel issues, and privacy matters. Dan is a frequent speaker at credit union industry events concerning legal and compliance topics and is the author of numerous publications. Prior to practicing law, Dan worked as a personal banking officer at a major California bank. He is a member of the State Bar of California and the Financial Institutions Committee of the State Bar of California.

LEARNING METHOD This training is available as an on-demand webinar, organized into chapters. Learners can choose to watch individual chapters or complete the entire program. Unlimited testing is provided as the last chapter. 

EXPIRY NOTE eTrain reserves the right to expire program links that may include information no longer valid such as regulation and rule changes. In most cases, we will expire a program no more than 4 weeks prior to an updated version being released. Expired programs will still appear in your My Account details area with EXPIRED and the year of the release in the title field. However, you will not be able to view the training or access the handouts.