Financial Services and Trading Regulatory Compliance Training - Live Webinars, Recordings & CDs

This webinar seeks to provide a solid foundation to all parties involved in foreign exchange activities whether at executive, marketing, audit or operational levels into how the actual trading processes work, what the risks are and how these can be mitigated by using clearly defined standards of best practice.

This BSA/AML (Bank Secrecy Act/ Anti Money Laundering) compliance training will help attendees understand, identify and mitigate the risks associated with high risk transactions.

This webinar training helps attendees to understand the problems with 26 Red flags released by federal regulators in regards to identity fraud. The instructor will discuss how to create and implement the fraud control program and Identity solutions to combat ID theft and reduce future losses.

This webinar will highlight the steps to identify and evaluate high-risk customers. Learn how to perform BSA, AML risk assessments.

This training program will help attendees approach the writing situation with a clear and useful strategy. It will include strategies to fuse the purpose of the summary with the issues that matter to your audience. Attendees will also learn to sort ideas to clarify key points and craft paragraphs that reinforce the intent of the executive summary.

This BSA compliance training on Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR) will provide details on how to prepare a SAR (Suspicious Activity Reporting) narrative that meets examiner scrutiny and provides necessary detail for law enforcement.

This session will present the changes to the Same Day ACH (SDA) environment (effective March 2021), the Unauthorized Return process with a new Return Reason Code R11 and the ACH Contact Registry – and more! Details on the new proposed amendment to the Nacha Operating Rules regarding Account Information Improvements Through the ACH Network, with a proposed effective date of March 18, 2022. PLUS, Limitation on Warranty Claims, the Reversal Process and Rules Enforcement change surrounding reversals, and Meaningful Modernization to enhance the ACH Network to keep up with changes in the payments landscape (all effective in 2021).

This training program will detail the components of a successful purchasing card program. It will also discuss implementing proper purchasing card controls, types of risk including fraud and misuse, auditing techniques, and more.

This webinar will explain what money laundering is, various types of money laundering including structuring, micro-structuring and cuckoo smurfing. Attendees will learn how to identify the red flags of money laundering in an account within your institution.

This training program will examine how to manage the AML/KYC compliance risk, which is a critical element in a robust BSA/AML compliance program. It will also explore customer identification and on-boarding and CDD/EDD/on-going risk based monitoring.

This IRS regulatory compliance training will focus on the rules requiring W-9 documentation and 1099 reporting. Attendees will learn the best practices to ensure compliance with IRS and avoid B-Notices.

This training program will discuss the history and origin of a model validation. It will also discuss the requirements by the OCC for a model validation, and what exactly a model validation should include. The session will also analyze the elements of a model validation to know what to look for in an RFP, and detail the requirements included in Final Rule 504.

This webinar examines the current state of the payments industry - from the complexity of the current payments landscape, the growing range of bank and non-bank participants, the ever-increasing range of payments methods, interfaces and systems, open banking, regulation and the future payments scene. We also look at how the COVID-19 pandemic has and will continue to affect payments.

This 90-minute session will provide the details on what is different and how the Federal Government has adopted the NACHA Operating Rules and what the exceptions to those Rules incorporate for the Federal Government. You will learn what the Green Book is and how this valuable on-line tool will help you with processing DNE’s and Government Reclamations.

This webinar will go through every section of the revised FFIEC Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering Examination Manual to highlight changes and areas where banks should review their internal policies, processes and procedures for compliance. Understanding these changes will keep you prepared and updated for your next BSA/AML examination.

This webinar will discuss the current “industry best practice” for the alert/case management investigation process, and any guidance from the regulators. The instructor will cover a sample methodology meant to demonstrate what your institution may be doing, and opportunities to improve it. Participants will understand about the rules/scenarios thresholds that are leading to alerts/cases. It will help you answer

• What is your escalation process?
• What policies guide your investigation process?
• What policies dictate when you file an alert/case?

This training program will provide financial professionals guidance on key ratio analysis. It will also detail a five-step analysis plan to calculate the key ratios covering liquidity, activity, leverage, operating performance, and cash flow analysis.

This Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) program training will guide attendees through the methods to train each segment of the bank’s or credit union’s employees annually on Bank Secrecy Act. It can be used as a “Train the Trainer” course or as annual training for all employees.

This training program will examine vendor/billing schemes that exploit payments process control weaknesses; latest electronic payments schemes (ACH hijacking, spear-phishing, social engineering); check counterfeiting, forgery and tampering schemes to be aware of; and, detecting common external payments schemes versus internal attacks.

Key Performance Indicators and Metrics provide your AP or Procurement operation with vital information that you can use to measure success and drive process improvement. In this webinar we will discuss how to create a culture of continuous improvement within your operation using metrics.