Summary:

The Special Corporate Governance Edition of Supervisory Insights is a review and commentary on the Pocket Guide for Directors, which is a set of common-sense principles that describe the responsibilities and duties of a bank's board of directors -- a framework for corporate governance that applies to any financial institution. This edition is available at http://www.fdic.gov/regulations/examinations/supervisory/insights/index.html.

Statement of Applicability to Institutions with Total Assets under $1 Billion: The information contained in this edition of Supervisory Insights may be of general interest to FDIC-supervised financial institutions, but it is not supervisory guidance.