Risk Management Training

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 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.

For years the IRS has struggled with the independent contractor and tax collection. In assessing opportunities to close the tax gap (taxes due but not reported or paid), one of the greatest opportunities comes from expanding the information reporting on taxpayers by payors – the 1099. This time-consuming reporting obligation can be streamlined in a number of ways. Join us to learn more…

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 webinar will discuss common deficiencies that are discovered in compilation and review engagements, as a result of peer review. It will explain the difference between minor deficiencies and major deficiencies. Instructor will discuss how to avoid these common mistakes and what the most common deficiencies are.

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

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 webinar will help the attendee gain an understanding of the appropriate way to design the processing of all cGMP Controlled raw materials that are used for the manufacturing of drug product. The scope of this webinar applies to all cGMP controlled raw materials that are received, requiring testing, release and issuance of specifications. It also applies to the processing of changes and retiring of previously issued controlled raw materials specification within the product manufacturing process. cGMP Raw materials that are used for product manufacturing has to be released for use in the production process. Guidance will be given as to the steps that every drug product manufacturer should follow in order to process all incoming cGMP controlled raw materials which includes the release for use in the manufacturing of products.

Countless managers are satisfied that with a decent risk control system, no occurrence of a risk scenario is going to cost them their job, especially in times of pandemic. Where does this lead us to?

In the present time, often labelled as unprecedented, with the stress-test scenario for pandemics painfully and tragically among us, financial institutions could be tempted to perform the wrong kind of stress-tests. Yet fate has not decided to spare any bank of another scenario. Therefore, when the pre-pandemic scenarios need a strong update, it is critical to find out the risk post-pandemic scenarios.

In these unprecedented times, when former certainties are no longer so, it is key to keep the levels and standards of operations, and so is the priority. But any weakness in risk management is likely to come back during the recovery phase, if not even before.

Attend this webinar to learn how to set up a vendor responsibility review program. You will get the tools you need to review vendors on various key risk factors.

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.

Everyone in procurement needs to take time out to review how they are doing in getting the best service out of their vendors. Are they unknowingly putting their employer at increased risk by the way they transact business with vendors? Learn how to develop healthy business relationships with your vendors to get the best results for your company or agency. Discover tools you can use to maintain vendor quality standards.

Information systems play a significant and static role in change adaptation and innovation. Procedures are operationally tailored, with processes linking to systems, and systems interfacing with various programs receiving objectives from the firm’s oversight committee through established reporting lines. Therefore, this presentation addresses information systems security issues regarding supply chain integration, coordination, and collaboration.

Sound management of operational risk is an integral part of strong governance, risk and compliance (GRC) and enterprise risk management. In this session, the instructor will define operational risk and explain how to identify, quantify, manage, and control it. He will discuss why all employees must be cognizant of these risks in their day to day jobs and how an organization can better manage and control these risks that have resulted in the failure of several high profile firms and significant losses and unwanted press at others. The course will also review and discuss the building blocks and key players in implementing an effective ORM program that is integrated into the enterprise risk management framework.

For external analysts, financial statements are a key source of information for getting an understanding of how risk a financial institution can be. Yet, still too many people are tempted to think that financial statements are designed to provide a true and fair view on risks. Do we know how much of the risks are genuinely communicated via financial statements?

This webinar will prepare participants to build a legislative and regulatory tracking process that monitors regulatory change, measures impact on business operations, and ensures the implementation of appropriate policy, training, and control updates.

An audit function should be thought of and managed as an independent business, including stakeholder analysis and feedback, setting objectives, developing necessary processes for managing resources and risks, measuring and improving performance, and even marketing to potential customers. This webinar covers topics specifically related to the audit system. How professional judgment and intent need consideration, auditing risks, and how entity life-cycles can affect audits are vital areas addressed during the webinar.