July 2007

Issue 33

Forward To A Colleague

Feature

Your Best Defense

Four ways to mitigate your financial institution’s wire transfer risk

by Lori Moore, Director of Compliance, ATTUS Technologies

If you’ve watched any of the Ocean’s movies, you know that folks like Brad Pitt and George Clooney have to do quite a bit of planning before knocking off a casino. They scope out the place, they put together a team of thieves, and they figure out where the casino is most vulnerable.


 

Editorial Corner

Wire transfer protection … The babble factor … annual compliance training

Trey Sullivan

With the growth of electronic fund transfer services, your institution must prepare for a potential rise in fraud, money laundering and errors. Our feature, Your Best Defense, provides four ways to mitigate your financial institution’s wire transfer risk.

Also in this issue, a reader asks how to communicate Multi-factor Authentication so it doesn't just sound like babble. Weigh in on this subject.

Last month, a reader asked how you provided Annual compliance training. A large number of responses indicated this is a hot topic.

To keep this newsletter and our online community active, we encourage you to become involved. Send ideas for articles you’d like to see. Let us know how relevant our topics are to you — and your career. Take our brief reader survey, and you could win an Apple iPod™.

If you would like to unsubscribe from this newsletter, please click on link at the bottom of the page.
 

Spotlight

WatchDOG Wire

Streamline a compliant wire transfer process.

Brochure
 

Reader Survey

Complete our 1-minute reader survey and you could win an Apple iPod.


 

Subscribe

Enter your email address.


Add Remove
Send as HTML
 

Publications

ABA Banking Journal Online

Bank Director

BAI Banking Strategies Magazine

Bank Systems & Technology

Bank Technology News

Credit Union Journal Daily

Credit Union Times

Institutional Investor Magazine
 

Resources

USA PATRIOT Act
(Full Text PDF)


 

Associations

America’s Community Bankers

American Association of Bank Directors (AABD)

American Bankers Association

Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS)

Bankers Compliance Group

Consumer Bankers Association

Credit Union National Association

[ More ... ]
 

What's Your Best Advice?

Last Issue's Dilemma:

What’s the best way to hold annual compliance training?

For all our branches, we’ve got a good employee education program online to help train new employees as well as remind ourselves how important regulatory compliance is. When it comes to ongoing education, what do other small to midsize financial institutions do in the way of annual training on all compliance regulations? Is the online training attractive, and how have the regulators commented on the use of this type of annual training?

— Robin H., Compliance Officer

Read the best advice from readers.


 

This Issue's Dilemma:

Babble, Babble ... Multi-factor Authentication Babble

We follow the FFIEC’s rules for strong authentication and have a multi-factor authentication process in place. That said, I’m having trouble communicating just what and why this is to our staff so they can explain it to our customers. Everyone seems to be telling it in a different way.

How do other institutions face this problem? Should I schedule training sessions or prepare a fact sheet with a script for all?

— Compliance Officer in Philadelphia

Can You Help?
Share your experience. You could win an Apple iPod.

We were happy to buy this special-edition Red Nano from Apple, because $10 of the purchase price goes to a very worthy cause, the Global Fund to fight AIDS in Africa. If you’d like to help out as well, here's a link to Apple's special promotion.
 

Fraud and AML Monitoring: Stay ahead of the bad guys

Techies, Compliance Execs and Directors Must Talk

Does everyone get the information they need?

by Chris Costanzo - Bank Director
 

Fraudsters Evolve, Can You?

Must be one step ahead of the crooks

by Maria Bruno-Britz - Bank Systems & Technology
 

Change Management: Survive and thrive

Six Habits for Great Changes

Getting out of the way is one

by Dr. Jane Adler & Dr. Robert Karlsberg - The Sideroad
 

Should You Negotiate Using Email?

Be careful! Things to consider

by Charles B. Craver - The Negotiator Magazine
 

Government Regulations: Keep up with your changing environment

The POOF Is Gone

Electronic discovery of "deleted" emails

by Steve Cocheo - ABA Banking Online Journal
 

Regulation, Death and Taxes: Three Certainties

Areas that can change a bank's life

from Bank Technology News
 

Archive

Issue 32
June 2007
Issue 31
May 2007
Issue 30
April 2007
Issue 29
March 2007
Issue 28
February 2007
Issue 27
January 2007
Issue 26
December 2006
Issue 25
November 2006
Issue 24
October 2006
Issue 23
September 2006
Issue 22
August 2006
Issue 21
July 2006
Issue 20
June 2006

[MORE]

 Editorial Team

"The helpful staff at InternetVIZ keeps our newsletter on track, and enables us to bring valuable information
 to our most important constituents—our customers."

- Trey Sullivan, CEO, ATTUS Technologies

InternetVIZ can make newsletters work for you! For more information click here.

 Privacy Policy

Published by InternetVIZ
Copyright © 2007 InternetVIZ. All rights reserved.
Powered by IMN