Banking Financial Services and Insurance
FinCEN's CDD Rule - Fifth Prong of the AML Program
FinCEN has issued substantial new AML requirements focused on a major expansion of Know Your Customer into what is now Customer Due Diligence, CDD. It goes far beyond knowledge of the Customer Legal Entity to the Beneficial Owner of that entity and its Controlling Persons. It is focused beyond the initial customer acceptance step, requiring updating and ongoing monitoring against baseline “normal” activity ..
Global Cash Flow : How to Calculate and Use GCF to Determine a Borrower’s Ability to Repay
The webinar will explain how to, first, determine the cash flow from the borrowing entity available to repay debt, and, second, incorporate the available cash flow from guarantor individuals and entities. Analysis of these various cash flows means quantifying existing and proposed debt and adjusting cash flows for living expenses and other costs. Speaker will use case studies, slides, problem-solving skills..
How to Analyze Operating Performance and Financial Condition with Ratios
Insights on Ratio Analysis to Determine Financial Strengths and Weaknesses. This session will explain how to employ ratios to measure and evaluate a borrower’s performance and financial condition. The borrower’s financial profile does change over its life cycle as it moves from a new entity to a mature firm, and this change over time will be explained and illustrated so that participants will see the link b..
How to Analyze the Income Statement
Many people may have financial statements in front of them but they do not know what they should be looking for. The Financial Statements can be seen as a Maze as there is so much information and people do not know where to start looking first. This live webinar will show people where they can find the income statement information they need and then depending on their needs (Are they looking to invest in th..
How to Project Cash Flow to Evaluate Borrower’s Ability to Repay Long-term Loans
One of the most basic analytical and underwriting tools a banker must have is the ability to determine whether a borrower can repay its loans based on the financial information available. Financial organizations extend credit to borrowers when the borrowers show the ability to repay the loans extended. Ideally, a request for a five-year loan should be supported by a 5-year cash flow projection. Learn key as..
Identifying Bankruptcies Sooner Than Later
This topic will benefit anyone who manages the Accounts Receivable asset and its risk of bad debt and delinquency loss. Credit control teams are continuously asked to deliver improved results with the same or reduced resources. The marketplace has seen a proliferation of private financing tools which can increase customers’ leverage and subordinate unsecured creditors’ claims.Completing this session will en..
IFRS Converting Your Cash Flow Statement
One step in switching over to IFRS is to convert your cash flow statement. In this presentation, we will work through the entire cash flow statement. We will review in detail exactly what changes will need to be made to comply with these rules. This session will enable you to successfully convert your cash flow statement.Areas Covered How net income will changeNon-cash items that affect t..
Impact Of Federal Reserve Policy: Now And Ahead
In today’s fast-changing world financial environment plays a crucial role in influencing economic growth, investments, employment, external trade, inflation, interest rates, credit demand and supply, exchange rates, purchasing power, consumer spending, Government Budget, and also your wealth, investment, financial planning, and economic wellbeing. It is, therefore, imperative to understand how the policy of..
Impaired Loans: Handle with Care - How to Manage, Account For and Collect Them
Impairment in any form of lending is but a usual mishap that will typically occur, as a rule of the game. For bankers, loan impairment is something to prepare for, as early as before setting up operations, and to permanently upgrade. Failure to do that reveals costly. Refusal to do that, though, deprives the bank of lending premiums, in that the bank will not lend to credit-risky borrowers. Hence it is miss..
Implementing an Enterprise-wide Risk Management Framework in a Financial Institution
Financial institutions most often inherit some implicit view on their risks and then add elements as time goes by, as mishaps occur and as regulators demand. The result is all too often the spectacle of a claim at consistency, whilst risk priorities are more the result of interdepartmental relationships, and some risks can be misunderstood. However, when setting up a complete framework, pitfalls are legion...
Implementing The CFPB’s Debt Collection Rule-Changes In Consumer Debt Collection In The USA
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Debt Collection Rule, promulgated under the Dodd-Frank Act to update the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, (15 USC 1692) was published in November 2020, in an effort to bring debt collection regulation into the 21st century. It will impact the practices of third-party debt collectors. Collectors and creditors alike need to understand the new requirements related ..
Importing and Exporting by U.S. Mail and Express Consignment
The Webinar will cover such topics as definitions of various articles related to U.S. Mail and express consignments; mail subject to Customs examination; exceptions to Customs examinations; general documentation and requirements; importations not over $800 in value; bona - fide gifts; dutiable packages; formal entries; costs of importing by mail; special classes of merchandise; restricted and prohibited mer..
Improve Your IRS Compliance: Use Best Practices for TIN Solicitation
This IRS regulatory compliance training will explain the Best TIN Solicitation Best Practices. While TIN solicitation might sound too lascivious for the legitimate business world, it is critical that every organization take this task seriously. For if they don't, a very uncomfortable and costly audit with the IRS is likely to ensue.Areas CoveredIdentify all required TIN information you need to collectDesign..
Increasing Criminal Risks of Intermediaries for Cross-Border Financial Crimes
In the last couple of decades, the world has experienced growing prosecutions of intermediaries for cross-border financial crimes. A U.S. bank was convicted by a Spanish court for moving money in the Pinochet criminal investigation instead of freezing it. The U.S. and State of New York have brought criminal cases against banks for a variety of financial crimes, especially economic sanctions. The U.S. DOJ ha..
Keys to Implementing The CECL Accounting Standard
In this webinar, will discuss the following topics:Overview of the CECL calculation under three widely recognized methods: o Vintage o The probability of Default / Severity of Loss o Migration AnalysisHow will the accounting change for classified loans considered impaired under FAS #114 or for troubled debt restructured loans?What data is needed to implement CECL? How is this data gat..