Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) Compliance Training

This training program will explore the vital world of advanced financial statement analysis. This session will include a review of the four financial statements and a five-step analysis model including liquidity, activity, leverage, operating performance, and cash flow. It will also review the Z-score (bankruptcy predictor) and the sustainable growth models. The webinar is a must for all commercial lenders and credit administrators.

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.

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.

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 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 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 webinar will cover the agency's current enforcement climate for NBFIs, provide detail on recent enforcement actions against MSBs including money transmitters, virtual currency exchanges, and individuals; and discuss FinCEN’s use of GTOs. This webinar will also provide lessons learned and key themes drawn from FinCEN's increase in enforcement actions against NBFIs and its use of GTOs.

In this training program, attendees will learn best practices for a financial institution’s SAR process. The program will also discuss SAR reporting process, working with law enforcement on SAR cases, documenting SAR decisions, and investigation tips.

This training program will examine who are third party vendors and analyze why it is critical to prepare a risk assessment for third parties. The course will also offer an overview of the potential risks a third party vendor may impose on your firm.

This webinar addresses recent changes in the compliance environment. It will also discuss the process for evaluating compliance department structure and the goals of compliance restructuring.

In most industries, you can contract away a responsibility or task, but not the liability of an attack or compliance expectations. This training program will examine key questions in case of a security breach. Whom will your customers hold liable? Who is going to get fined and possibly sued? At the end of the day, your organization will suffer the negative publicity, the reputation damage, and financial loss of the attack. This program will address vendor due diligence and security to better understand the risks your organization could face while outsourcing your business needs.

FinCEN is issuing final rules under the Bank Secrecy Act to clarify and strengthen customer due diligence requirements for: banks; brokers or dealers in securities; mutual funds; and futures commission merchants and introducing brokers in commodities. The rules contain explicit customer due diligence requirements and include a new requirement to identify and verify the identity of beneficial owners of legal entity customers, subject to certain exclusions and exemptions. This training program will walk attendees through the new rules and how to implement them.

Interviewing is a craft that involves applying proven and practiced steps along with skilled communication. This training program will discuss the art of human interaction to help achieve successful interview results. It will help participants in gaining the trust of the interviewee and in encouraging truthful responses.

This training program will review intent and focus of Regulation E and the ACH Rules. It will analyze situations where Regulation E and the ACH Rules do not align and help determine appropriate responses and procedures to manage risk and loss.

This webinar will enhance participants’ knowledge by detailing the elements of internal controls. 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 over all security and effectiveness.

This training program will highlight various disbursement fraud schemes. It will also discuss preventing disbursement fraud by establishing a strong anti-fraud policy and understanding of the human factor.

This training program will review criteria needed to evaluate Originators and perform proper due diligence and describe details on the different types of ACH risk – focus being on credit risk for purposes of setting exposure limits. It will also outline the rules and evaluation process for setting exposure limits for all Originators and overview FFIEC guidance regarding risk in the ACH network.

This training program will provide insight into business law basics and lender liability. The webinar will explore the basics of business law including the judicial process, stages of litigation, alternatives to litigation (arbitration and mediation), and business structure. Attendees will gain an understanding of contract law, problem loan situations, and bank collection efforts. Additionally, the related concept of lender liability will be reviewed including the technical aspects of this vital area and recent industry trends.

This webinar will offer a comprehensive, in-depth review of the state laws affecting the corporate governance standards applicable to insurance companies and the board of directors’ role in those standards.