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Elder Abuse Awareness Day 2022: Red Flags for BSA/AML Staff

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World Elder Abuse Awareness Day is an international United Nations observance day commemorated each June 15 by most countries around the globe. The National Adult Protective Services Association defines EFE as any time a person misuses or takes the assets of a vulnerable adult for their own personal benefit. BSA Training.

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

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BSA was intended to detect illicit activity through cash and monetary instruments to catch tax evaders using secret foreign bank accounts. October 26 is now nationally recognized as BSA/AML Day.) It is time now for FinCrime professionals to sharpen their tools, train their staff, and be diligent to the red flags of terrorist financing.

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

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Financial institutions can mitigate these risks with strong information security protocols, including clear policies and cybercrime education training for every employee. Training should include red flags to identify common cyberattack vectors like phishing, business email compromise, ransomware, and extortion attempts.

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The Velocity of Risk – What Bankers Need To Know

South State Correspondent

Banks that are looking to enhance their risk management practices should consider incorporating the concept of the velocity of risk into their enterprise-wide risk management practices. Some risks occur slowly; others strike quickly and hard. Optimizing Risk. Consider the risk above.

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

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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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10 Lessons We Learned at the Nacha Smarter Faster Payment Conference

South State Correspondent

The major themes of fraud, artificial intelligence (AI), expansion of instant payments, open banking, and regulation were particularly relevant to your roles as executives, risk managers, compliance officers, and technology leaders. As such, the National Security Agency (NSA ) is calling for banks to be compliant by 2030.

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The Current Banking Crisis – 10 Not So Apparent Lessons

South State Correspondent

While we wrote about the root cause of the failure of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) HERE , the lessons of the current banking crisis go beyond interest rate risk management. While interest rate risk caused the most significant impact on value, several other factors contributed to the terminality of each bank that was closed.