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For more info or to apply for the Certified Community Lender Program, contact Pretty Patel at 515.453.1495
​or [email protected].
To renew your certification, download the Certified Community Lender Renewal Form below.
CCL Renewal Form - 2023
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CRITERIA

What is a Certified Community Lender?
A Certified Community Lender (CCL) is a new designation designed to professionalize the position of a community bank lender. Similar to a Certified Public Accountant, the designation establishes a standard of knowledge for community bank lenders. It allows you to demonstrate to your employer that you have achieved that knowledge.
 
Who Developed the Designation of a Certified Community Lender?
At the suggestion of numerous community bankers, the Community Bankers Association of Illinois (CBAI), working in conjunction with other community bank associations throughout the country and Dave Kemp, Bankers Management Inc., College Park, Georgia, developed the concept.

What Does It Take to Become a Certified Community Lender?
  • Have a minimum of three years’ lending experience at the time of examination;
  • Each candidate must demonstrate the requisite number of educational hours covering job skills and curriculum as follows:
              1.  Candidates with 15+ years of experience
                   must demonstrate 24 hours of education;
              2.  Candidates with 8 to 15 years of experience
                   must demonstrate 48 hours of education;
              3.  Candidates with 8 years or less experience
                   must demonstrate 72 hours of education.
  • Pass a six-hour exam (three hours multiple choice and three hours casework).
  • Seventy-five percent of the requisite number of educational hours must be obtained through CBI or Community Bankers Association of Illinois (CBAI).
  • You may document education hours up to five years prior.
  • Pass a six-hour exam (approximately 200 multiple choice questions and two case studies, in which the student chooses from consumer, commercial, agricultural lending, and credit administration).
 
Once CBI verifies the information submitted with the application, CBI members will receive an invoice for $400, prospective members $550. This fee includes exam, grading, Continental breakfast, and lunch on the day of the exam, as well as a handsome wall plaque upon successful completion of the program. The invoice must be paid before any applicant can sit for the CCL exam.



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