Welcome to the Federal Reserve's free online training resource for bank directors.

• If you are a First Time User, please read How to Use this Course.
• If you are looking for a specific tool or topic, click the Reference View button in the top right corner of the page.

This site is set up under the premise of a Board of Director’s meeting at the fictional “Insights Bank and Trust.” The meeting agenda on the right provides the structure for the course and represents a selection of focused topics that relate to evaluating a bank’s financial performance and managing the risks to its portfolio (credit risk, market risk and liquidity risk).

In each agenda area you will find video scenarios and sample reports from Insights Bank that are designed to raise on-the-job issues bank directors may face. Printable references, helpful tips and practice exercises all help directors gain confidence, ask pertinent questions and apply their new knowledge to meeting their real-life responsibilities. A list of course topics, practice exercises and supporting “meeting materials” lessons is available from the Reference View.

• New directors can go through the course sequentially.
• More experienced directors or returning users to the site can access the Reference View to choose the topics that are of most interest.
• Banks can use the online materials in a group discussion with the entire board, watching the videos and then reviewing the questions and reports as a team.

To get started, use your mouse pointer to click on one of the agenda items on the right.