Corporate Governance & Risk Management for RB Directors - Dec. 10-11, 2007


FOR: ALL PARTICIPATING RURAL BANKS
FROM: GEN. WILLIAM K. HOTCHKISS III (Ret.), RBRDFI Chairman
SUBJECT: CIRCULAR LETTER: SEMINAR-WORKSHOP ON CORPORATE GOVERNANCE & RISK MANAGEMENT FOR RB DIRECTORS

Dear Fellow Rural Bankers:

The Rural Bankers Association of the Philippines (RBAP), through the Rural Bankers’ Research and Development Foundation, Inc. (RBRDFI) is pleased to announce that it will conduct a seminar-workshop, as part of its continuing strategy to strengthen the rural banking industry.

Course Title: Seminar-workshop on Corporate Governance
& Risk Management for RB Directors
Venue: RBAP Conference Room, RBAP Bldg., A. Soriano Ave., cor.
Arzobispo St., Intramuros, Manila
Schedule: 10-11 December 2007 (Monday & Tuesday)
Duration: 2 days (8:30AM – 5:30PM)

Pursuant to BSP Circular No. 296 prescribing the minimum qualifications of a bank director, a director ‘ must have attended a special seminar for board of directors conducted or accredited by BSP…That incumbent directors as well as those who will be elected…must attend said seminar within a period of six (6) months…from the date of their election’. Rural bank directors are mandated by the said circular in order to improve and strengthen corporate governance of their banks.

Registration fee is Four Thousand Two Hundred Pesos only (P4, 200.00). * Early bird registrants (those who will be able to pay on or before November 09, 2007) are entitled to a 5% discount from the registration fee or will only pay PhP3, 990.00.

Should these arrangements meet your approval, we thereby request you to submit to us not later than December 06, 2007 the following:

1. A non-refundable down payment of P2, 100.00 per participant. Payments can be remitted to the Rural Bankers Research and Development Foundation, Inc. bank account (Land Bank of the Philippines – Intramuros Branch Savings Account Number 0012-1046-26). Proof of payment (i.e., deposit slip) should be sent immediately to RBAP via facsimile for verification. Our facsimile number is (02) 527-2980. For check payments, check should be payable to Rural Bankers Research and Development Foundation, Inc.;

1.Nomination form of the participant(s) duly endorsed by the bank’s authority;
2.Filled-up Participant’s Profile.

Please be advised that we will be accepting up to thirty (30) participants only. We reserve the right to limit the number of participants to a manageable level. Participants will be accepted on a first-come-first-served basis.

Participants who have paid but fail to show up for the seminar will only be entitled to a rebate of 50% of the total registration fee.

Thank you very much.


SGD:

GEN. WILLIAM K. HOTCHKISS III (Ret.)
RBRDFI Chairman

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