ALEXANDRIA, Va.-NCUA's National Training Conference will roll out the agency's new national supervision policy manual, and the agency expects it-along with meeting sessions-will reduce CU reports of examiner inconsistency.
Deputy Executive Director John Kutchey said NCUA has standardized many of the regional procedures via the manual it assembled over the last 18 months. "As soon as examiners come out of training in Orlando this manual will be in effect. Hopefully, we will see a difference in consistency of approaches from region to region. This meeting gives us the opportunity to give everyone the same message at the same time."
Consistency with how examiners look at risk at each credit union has been an issue regularly raised by CU CEOs, most recently during CUNA's Governmental Affairs Conference in Washington (Credit Union Journal, March 26). Kutchey said a day of training focused on the different levels of credit union risk takes aim at that concern. "Over the last five years we have brought in over 200 new examiners so we want to bring them up to speed-they will get an advanced set of training on risk issues. We think that when credit unions talk about our standards not being applied consistently, some are seeing a lot of new examiners that are still in the training mode."
Among a number of other sessions that include topics such as member business lending and delinquencies, a day of training will also be dedicated to problem resolution. "We get complaints from the credit union community about applying standards here consistently from region to region," Kutchey said. "We will bring up a lot of the issues and recommendations from OIG reports from material loss reviews."
