New York, NY - June 18, 2010 – Financial Publishing Services (FPS) has invited ICS Compliance Assistant Director Sharon Blanchette to present on regulatory compliance issues involved in social media for on June 22, 2010 at 1:00 p.m. In her 60-minute presentation entitled, “Working through Regulatory and Compliance Issues in Social Media,” Ms. Blanchette will address specific compliance and risk issues that cannot be overlooked in a financial institution’s social media undertaking.

FPS’s 4-part webinar series,” The Financial Institution's Guide to Social Media”, is exclusively for executives in the financial services industry. They’ve invited the finest in the fields of social media consulting, regulatory compliance, and monitoring to discuss the unique challenges of financial institutions in getting started in or optimizing social media participation.

Ms. Blanchette’s webinar session #4 is based on white paper, “Financial Institutions and Social Media: The "upside" and traditional view of risk,” which she co-wrote with her Regional Director Pam Buckley. When it comes to social media, it’s apparent that in banking participation can present tremendous opportunity and, simultaneously, tremendous risk. In this segment she’ll discuss the specific compliance and risk issues that need to be addressed, while detailing the processes that can satisfy these potential obstacles and enabling maximum benefits and minimal risk in social media participation.

Register here for Sharon's webinar session with the FPS.

About Sharon Blanchette, MBA, CPA, CIA
As Assistant Director at ICS Compliance, Ms. Blanchette has more than 20 years experience in regulatory compliance and auditing. As a former Vice President of Internal Audit & Control for a $1.4 billion FDICIA bank, she was responsible for all aspects of internal and compliance auditing, and annual audit risk assessments. She is one of the Firm’s Subject Matter Experts in the IT compliance topics of DR/BCP, vendor management, information security, and HIPAA / HITECH regulations.

About ICS Compliance
As compliance specialists, ICS Compliance focuses only on regulatory issues for financial institutions. Our seasoned professionals, with previous experience as Compliance Officers and/or Federal Regulatory Examiners, provide financial institutions with invaluable expertise and insight. This competency, along with our tailored approach and strong regulatory awareness, provides clients with the confidence that comes from hiring experts in compliance. Serving institutions nationally from 17 offices, we provide customized compliance programs, remediation projects, and consultation.

About Financial Publishing Services Co.
The mission of Financial Publishing Services Co. is to help banks and other service providers communicate more effectively with corporate users of financial services. Since 1986, they have produced thousands of client-sponsored newsletter editions read by hundreds of thousands of CEOs, CFOs, treasurers, controllers, cash managers, and other corporate users of financial services. They also specialize in producing industry issue special reports and customer success stories, as well as writing and placing articles in trade publications on behalf of clients.