09/12/2011
During our annual internal audit of Reg. O, we discovered that overdraft fees are being waived for the board of directors. The overdrafts were under $1,000 and the account was not consecutively overdrawn for 5 days or more. At first, we felt that we could defend this by proving that our BOD is in similar circumstances as other depositors that we waive overdraft fees for. Management has decided that proving these "similar circumstances" may not be a risk we want to take with examiners. How should we handle this violation? Should we have the board members that are in violation pay the fees that were waived? Or should we implement training and awareness to ensure this violation does not happen again?
08/22/2011
I'm new to BankersOnline.com and also to compliance. I am trying to find some training materials relating to the USA Patriot Act that I could potentially use as a model for staff training at our bank. Can you point me in the right direction?
08/15/2011
Do we have to/should we have our clients sign/acknowledge that they received a copy our our new Privacy Notice that went into effect 2010? My question stems from a recent FDIC exam.
08/01/2011
We have been contacted by our community to sell bracelets on our teller line. The first 100 names of bracelets sold (the tellers would track the names) will go into a drawing for $500 cash. They say it will be open to anyone and not just our clients. Why else would the person be at our teller line if they were not our client? Also, they would like to give something special to the tellers for taking on this added work. I have no idea what "something special" is. We are an OCC bank and I have read through 12 USC 25a. I say that this is a raffle/lottery. Even though we would not be drawing the name of the winner, just selling the bracelets, to me this is still a raffle. Isn't it illegal in it self to allow the bracelets to be sold on bank property? This has nothing to do with deposits or our products or having to become a client of the bank. Would you agree?
04/18/2011
Do we have to have job specific training for BSA?
04/11/2011
Do you have a Reg CC Hold Schedule for 2011, as you have for past years?
03/07/2011
Is there a resource for advertising compliance when it comes to Facebook?
01/03/2011
Are directors required to receive annual training on Reg CC?
08/09/2010
At the end of March, one of our customers filed a dispute on two transactions where the merchant processed them as PIN-less debits. The customer maintains that he did not authorize the transaction, and that the merchant refuses to provide a refund. The customer was well within the sixty day guideline for filing a claim, but now is threatening to sue us because we have not processed the claim within the forty-five day timeline required by Reg E. We did not provide the client with provisional credit after day ten, nor have we provided the client with any written communication regarding the claim. Are we liable to the client for failure to follow Reg E, and what can we do to get out of a lawsuit?
07/19/2010
Our bank is planning to advertise a tiered-rate savings account. We want to make sure we disclose the APY correctly in the ad, but our rate structure is a little different from anything I've seen before, so I need a little help. We'll pay an interest rate of 0.50% on the portion of an account's balance from $0 through $5,000; plus 2.00% on the portion of the balance from $5,000.01 through $50,000; plus 0.10% on balances above $50,000 (all rates are variable, and these rates are what we would currently use). I seem to remember something from an old compliance training class about APY ranges. Is that the direction I should be headed?