Banking Financial Services and Insurance
Auditor Responsibility Re: Fraud
This webinar focuses on fraud in the corporate environment. It reiterates some of the authoritative CPA literature related to fraud. It is, however, equally important to non-CPAs (e.g. internal auditors, corporate departmental managers, senior management, board members). It provides a basic understanding of fraud-related definitions and requirements. In particular, it separates the fraud discussion between:..
Background Checks for Banks
Employee background checks are an inescapable reality for financial institutions. And while developing and administering an appropriate background check program has always presented tricky compliance issues for banks and credit unions, regulatory and legal developments in this area have made compliance both more challenging and more important.Financial institutions face greater potential challenges and pitf..
Beware Employee Embezzlement & Internal Fraud
This webinar examines the scope and nature of employee dishonesty and explains the risks to employers and organizations of all types. It goes on to deal with the practical aspects of prevention and response to victimization, as well as balancing the need to assure that corrective and deterrent programs and policies do not unduly interfere with normal operations and opportunities and do not generate other ma..
Blockchain Demystifed - What It Really Is, What It Can Do, and How It May Impact the Business World
The blockchain is a new fundamental technology. It has been liking to the advent of the internet in the scope of its possible changes for the future of the business world. This technology has a chance to change everything throughout the business. Most people are clueless about blockchain and they don't fully understand it. Even if you try to Google blockchain, read about it and its implications it becomes c..
Capital Adequacy and Stress Testing: Understanding the CCAR (Federal Reserve) and DFAST (OCC) Programs
Banks and Credit Unions are subject to programs of the Federal Reserve, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), and the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA), which test whether each Bank or Credit Union has sufficient capital to navigate successfully through adverse future economic scenarios. The required analysis involves estimating the losses the Bank or Credit Union will incur in a ra..
Cash Flow Analysis of Borrower’s Repayment Ability
Understand the Importance of Cash Flow to Bankers, How to calculate it and what its Uses are. As a banker, you need to interpret cash flow and calculate it accurately to pitch a stellar success. This session is designed to assist you as a banker in calculating cash flow from operations and help you to calculate Global Cash Flow Analysis for those entities that must rely on excess cash generated by their own..
Cash Management: How Sales, Operations, and Technology Can Work Together to Generate More Fee Income
During this webinar, you will gain a more in-depth knowledge of Cash Management (aka Treasury Management) products and services. You will learn about all the Cash Management products and services available in the marketplace, identify the products and services your community bank currently offers, what you’re missing, and come up with strategies to implement and offer the right products and services for you..
Comprehensive of Costing Best Practices
Whether a public company, private enterprise, or a not-for-profit organization, cost accounting is vitally important to any entity that offers products or services. Costing systems and policies are used as management tools for a variety of purposes including identifying cost and income structures for separate products/services and as an input to pricing evaluations. Increasingly they are used as a regulator..
Credit Policy Fundamentals: Principles and Practices
Participants will learn how to diagnose their own credit policies to identify any gaps, and if so, how to write practical and understandable policies that meet regulatory expectations for content. They will be able to implement and maintain the processes and procedures needed to ensure that their policies are kept current and accurate, are monitored for compliance with them by means of tracking exceptions t..
Current Issues In Credit Risk
The reactions to the 2007 crisis have amply shown that, for most people who had to react as regulators, lenders or investors, the body of crisis-fighting knowledge was picked up essentially from the last 10 years. Few people referred to the main precedent, the 1929 crisis, to pick up wisdom from precedents: it was deemed too old to be relevant. Regulators’ reactions indicated that little was done to envisio..
Designing and Using KPIs and Performance Dashboards
We need our leaders to be effective in deploying our resources and guiding our operations to reach our goals in the most effective way. We need everyone to understand our mission and strategy so we can be sure we are all pulling together in the right direction. How well do our dashboard reporting tools support your strategic mission and goals? Are they right timed and properly designed for the users? How ma..
Does Anyone Care About SOX Anymore?
Many people feel that the task of documenting their company’s Sarbanes-Oxley controls has become routine and downright boring. However, the SOX documentation process remains one of the best ways for CFOs and CEOs to be comfortable in signing off documents that make them personally and criminally responsible for the accuracy and reliability of their public company's financial statements and the effectiveness..
Emerging Issues: E-Signatures, E-Verification, E-CDD/EDD Etc
In recent years the increased use of electronic means to obtain customer signatures, to conduct verifications of customer information, and to conduct overall customer due diligence has posed problems for financial institutions to fully comply with KYC, CDD/EDD requirements. This webinar will discuss methods of using electronic means for these activities and will discuss up-to-date guidance provided by FinCE..
Employee Fraud: Prevent, Detect, Manage
Embezzlement, kickbacks, check fraud, financial statement fraud and vendor billing schemes are just a few of the countless economic crimes committed by employees and outsiders. And with the march of technology, new computer and Internet-driven schemes are being deployed by dishonest insiders all the time.Learning ObjectivesUnderstand the fraud problemWhy employees commit fraudEssential fraud detection tools..
Ensuring compliance in Anti-Money Laundering (AML) / Know Your Customer (KYC)
Money Laundering, when it is allowed to occur, is often done to enable crime: for example, fraud, drug trafficking, human trafficking, or terrorism. Moreover, Money Laundering can be a felony in itself, because it enables crime, or because it violates laws enacted to protect national security. Because of this, US law imposes on banks and other financial institutions (such as Credit Unions), and their manage..