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Remembering 9/11 – A Pivotal Day for BSA/AML Professionals

Abrigo

BSA was intended to detect illicit activity through cash and monetary instruments to catch tax evaders using secret foreign bank accounts. The role of BSA staff was typical compliance and very task-oriented. October 26 is now nationally recognized as BSA/AML Day.) soil. .

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Conducting an exam-proof AML/CFT risk assessment for credit unions

Abrigo

Step two Identify inherent risk vs. residual risk Inherent risk is any activity or factor posed to the credit union, notwithstanding applying any management or risk mitigation tools. This example is a situation with a "high" inherent risk and "strong" mitigating controls. If so, how is this monitored?

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2021 GonzoBanker Awards

Gonzobanker

Some interesting finalists would be: M&T and People’s United Old National and First Midwest Webster and Sterling Columbia Bank and Umpqua. Congrats on a brave move and national recognition Jim! Chuck Snyder, chief executive of National Cooperative Bank (NCB). From nowhere, sizable regional players are being created.

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Community Bank CEO Outlook 2022: Your priorities for the new year

Independent Banker

For example, we don’t do mortgage lending right now, because we don’t have the compliance expertise and staff knowledge,” Silveria says. Planning for increased compliance costs. In this environment, many community banks are looking for alternative methods of making money, including starting new businesses under their holding companies.

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My top five Decentralized Finance predictions for 2020

Lex Sokolin

Further, actually touching client funds immediately makes these apps into regulated custodians or money transmitters or financial advisors, which means a lot of compliance cost for little upside. If you raised money from SoftBank, you have to take on large risk, while the banks will take another 5 years to touch real DeFi. (2)

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Guest Post: 3rd Quarter Economic Update by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

Well, if you are NBER, or National Bureau for Economic Research, and you wait fifteen months to declare that the recession was over in June, 2009 (its duration was 19 months), no one will care. Year-to-date layoffs are down 65% from the same period last year –good news indeed. Uncertainty about a housing recovery has been holding back growth.

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FinCEN’s AML/CFT Priorities: A risk assessment perspective

Abrigo

Develop your risk assessment with the AML/CFT priorities in mind Evaluating each FinCEN priority and addressing them in your financial institution's risk assessment is key to compliance. The most common types of fraud include bank fraud, consumer, health care, securities, and tax fraud. These networks exploit the U.S.

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