RMA is an international association of leaders in lending and risk management.  Our purpose is to help highly successful professionals make better loans and credit decisions by sharing the latest techniques among top-level bankers and experts in the field.  RMA hosts over 1,000 Roundtables, Conferences and training sessions each year.  The RMA Journal is one of the most highly regarded publications of its kind and our Annual Statement Studies is a resource used by lenders, accountants, business owners and financial professionals.  

As one of over 113 active RMA Chapters, the Central Indiana Chapter of RMA plays an active role in fulfilling the mission of RMA.  Through area educational and networking events we enrich financial services professionals and our region’s banking community. It is an important undertaking which is led and implemented by loyal volunteers from area institutions - bringing RMA to you in your own backyard.

RMA was founded in 1914 to help commercial bankers make better lending decisions through the exchange of credit information.  Today, it is the only professional organization to specialize in promoting effective and prudent risk management practices for institutions of all sizes across the financial services industry.  In fact, the American Banker describes RMA as the “trade group responsible for guarding credit quality and promoting risk management.”

Early in the last century, lenders recognized the need for an exchange of credit information.  In 1913, a group of bankers informally exchanging credit information in the lobby of the Hotel Utah in Salt Lake City decided to found an association for that express purpose.  The first meeting of what was then called the Robert Morris Club took place on June 25 and was attended by 82 lenders.

Who was Robert Morris?  The Association was originally named after Robert Morris, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and the primary financier of the Revolutionary War.  After the war, Morris became an active acquirer of real estate, establishing a syndicate that covered the entire East Coast.  The syndication soon began to falter and he eventually landed in debtors prison for failing to pay his debts.  George Washington visited Morris in prison an soon persuaded the U.S. Congress to enact the first bankruptcy statute so that a founding father of the country would not languish in jail.