06/01/2002
Personnel security checks may be an important part of your privacy program. After all, the fulfillment of the privacy program is no better than the people who work at it.
05/20/2002
Isn't it true that we need to have the ID's, Social Security numbers and addresses of the signors on a business account to be compliant with the changes for BSA?
05/06/2002
We are considering creating a position to manage information security and possibly business recovery. I'm looking for some guidance on what the level of this position should be, and who it would report to. Should it report to IT? Should it be independent? Should it be a senior level position?
05/01/2002
Question: If we have our employees wear badges that advertise home loans, should the badges also include the fair lender logo?
05/01/2002
05/01/2002
It is easy to overlook employment discrimination issues. It is particularly tempting to ignore such issues when cutting back or reassigning staff to improve the bottom line.
05/01/2002
FinCEN isn't the only agency taking aggressive action to enforce the Bank Secrecy Act. The Federal Reserve recently announced two enforcement actions involving violations of BSA.
04/01/2002
We need to replace a BSA officer for one of our subsidiary banks. Does the new replacement need to be an "officer" of the bank? We have an employee of the bank that is knowledgeable of this area, but they are not classified as a bank officer.
02/11/2002
I'm a new compliance officer and I need to know what regulations require employee training. I'm in the process of putting together a compliance training calendar for my bank.
02/04/2002
Customer opened a savings account joint with son, wife and husband. The wife was the only one who signed the card. The husband came in and closed the savings and now the wife is calling to say he could not do that because he never signed the card. It was not a large sum of money but I need to know where we stand.