Financial Services and Trading Regulatory Compliance Training - Live Webinars, Recordings & CDs

This webinar will address the red flags that may indicate money laundering and fraud in non-bank financial institutions. It will also provide guidelines for conducting enhanced due diligence (EDD).

This webinar will enhance your knowledge of SOX Section 404 (Sarbanes-Oxley Act Section 404) by helping you understand the elements of an internal controls system. Internal controls are a key part of any organization's continued growth, performance and success. With fraud at an all-time high, a well-designed internal control structure will enhance operations by improving your department's overall security and effectiveness. SOX Section 404 mandates that all publicly-traded companies must establish internal controls and procedures for financial reporting and must document, test and maintain those controls and procedures to ensure their effectiveness.

This training on Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA ) will highlight the evolution of the Act and its current regulations. It will also provide attendees practical and effective methods for solid FATCA implementation along with tools for identifying FATCA specific complexities in order to avoid enforcement actions.

This training program will offer attendees an understanding of record schedule defensibility and best practices to take steps toward improvements. The IRS states entities need to be fully informed of the code relating to Record Retention and Destruction to determine what records are necessary to stay in compliance or face fines. According to IRS and state statistics of the entities audited over the past three years, 82% could not supply adequate records to pass an audit - resulting in substantial fines for non-compliance.

This training program will review the three keys to success for any bank: marketing, financing, and management. The webinar will also include how to correctly interpret the bank’s financial statements including analyzing key numbers and ratios. Additionally, attendees will be exposed to how a bank’s overall success is measured including the CAMELS rating, Baurer Financial Rating, and Texas Ratio. Furthermore, various bank HR issues and the risk of cyber security threats will be outlined.

This webinar will explain the concept of Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD), including EDD time tables and checklist. Attendees will learn how to conduct Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) that will satisfy the auditors.

Revenue Recognition Rules are changing! Over the next three years companies will undergo a major change in recording revenue. This training program will help you to gain an understanding of the elements of New Revenue Recognition Rules, so you can prepare for this change by developing a program management team, updating business processes and internal controls, learning dependencies on data, and developing your revenue automation updates and IT involvement for the new standard.

This training program will provide guidance in recognizing, investigating and reporting suspicious activities. It will also discuss instructions on implementing and maintaining an enterprise wide compliance program to safeguard the financial system from illicit use and combat money laundering and promote national security through the collection, analysis, and dissemination of financial intelligence to the regulatory authorities.

The ability to construct and present a winning argument by those without direct control over business processes or organizations is the key requirement to excel in today’s risk and auditing environment. This webinar will provide participants with tools and strategies that will improve the quality of your argument thereby improving your chances for providing positive, substantial and effective advice.

This webinar will provide attendees a clear understanding of the compliance department of the future. Attendees will learn the best practices to ensure BSA and AML compliance and avoid failure and fines.

Wire transfer fraud has often rendered businesses and financial institutions helpless despite their best efforts to combat the threat. This training program will identify the red flags of common forms of wire transfer fraud and help understand how you can isolate your organization and help combat fraud. The webinar instructor will also review sound risk assessment practices to help minimize exposure.

Rather than focus on the computations and tactics of each of the statements, this training program will cover the important concepts of how the statements interact and relate to each other providing management with the critical information needed to manage financial stability of their organization. It is important professionals recognize that no one statement tells the complete story, but combined they provide a powerful tool for management.

This training program will explore the operational implications of dealing with heightened-risk categories such as PEP screening at the heels of the Panama Papers controversy. The program will also discuss the current changes in the marketplace and expose the new faces of AML and examine areas of PEP regulation that pose present and future challenges for regulated businesses.

This training program will help attendees to understand the financial modeling concepts to construct powerful & effective templates and Excel's linear regression analysis to model your firm's sales forecast, identifying key revenue and cost drivers and charting techniques for report forecasting results to top management.

This webinar highlights the importance of management’s role in instilling proper internal controls within their processes. In this session, instructor will explore methods to educate management on their individual responsibilities for control processes and the variance between a control malfunction and control design issues. Participants will be provided with tools to help management better understand their role in internal control and effectively execute their obligations. The session will also review the impending COSO changes and examine how they may impact your organization.

This webinar training analyzes critical components of a Cyber Incident Response Plan and provides recommendations on how to prepare all staff for the inevitable situations. From internal considerations to your external solution providers, get a realistic view of how a cyber-attack can quickly spiral a typical day into complete chaos and cause significant losses without preparation. Attendees will receive a Cyber Incident Response Plan checklist to help their Incident Response Team analyze or develop a Plan.

This webinar will review current requirements of the Bank Secrecy Act, why to comply, how to comply, reporting techniques and current positions by the IRS and FinCEN.

This training program will enumerate the IIA Standards and the auditor’s responsibility to abide by the standards. The program will also look at management’s expectations of internal audit and detail skills required for internal audit management. It will provide real-world examples and challenges facing today’s internal audit.

This AML compliance webinar will discuss recent developments in Bank Secrecy Act including various forms such as Currency Transaction Report (CTR), money log and Suspicious Activity Report (SAR).Attendees will learn best practices to ensure compliance with BSA regulations and avoid violations and fines.

This webinar will discuss the challenges and opportunities involved in developing and implementing an operational risk appetite statement, which is supported by operational risk limits, and the determination of actual exposure against those limits.