RMA is recognized with an Omni Intermedia Gold Award for its Lending Decision Process online training.

Philadelphia, PA (January 15, 2010) -- The Risk Management Association has won an Omni Intermedia Award for its Lending Decision Process (LDP) online learning series, along with its vendor, Allen Communication Learning Services. RMA and Allen won a gold award in the educational category.

RMA's Learning Decision Process curriculum offers quality education in an interactive, online forum that provides the flexibility to learn at each individual's pace and convenience. The online course offers mentoring characters who interact directly with learners, knowledge checks, case studies and on-the-job simulations, among other features.

"Winning the Omni Intermedia Award is a testament to the quality of our content and the creativity of the delivery medium to enhance the individual performance of credit and lending professionals," said Mark Zmiewski, RMA's director of Strategic Learning and Research. "The award criteria says it all: engage, empower and enlighten. That is what the RMA training experience is all about."

The Omni Intermedia Awards recognize outstanding media productions that, among other criteria, include creativity, graphics, programming, ease of use, functionality, audio, special effects and impact.

About RMA

Founded in 1914, The Risk Management Association is a not-for-profit, member-driven professional association whose sole purpose is to advance the use of sound risk principles in the financial services industry. RMA promotes an enterprise-wide approach to risk management that focuses on credit risk, market risk and operational risk.

Headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, RMA has approximately 3,000 institutional members that include banks of all sizes as well as nonbank financial institutions. They are represented in the Association by 18,000 risk management professionals who are chapter members in financial centers throughout North America, Europe and Asia/Pacific.

Contact: Kathleen M. Beans, 215-446-4095, or Kevin McLaughlin, 215-446-4137, RMA Public Relations Staff.