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Teaching Your Front-Line Staff to Ask BSA Questions
- We will cover the responsibilities of frontline staff
- Customer service vs. Bank Preservation
- Updating customer information, CTR, SAR, and Monetary Instrument Log scenarios and questions
- Building a strong relationship between the frontline staff and back office staff
- Developing a culture of compliance in the frontline staff
- What customer information to gather, how to gather the information, why gathering the information is important
- How your financial institution can use the information
Overview of the webinar
During this webinar we will discuss what questions to ask, the specific KYC/CDD questions, the general customer update questions, and most importantly, the questions related to suspicious activity. When this webinar is over, you will understand what information is available, how you should analyze the information, what your regulators expect from you institution, and some of the dangers of not fully complying with KYC/CDD information gathering requirements.You will be able to apply what you have learned during this webinar to you job function immediately upon returning to work after the seminar.
Who should attend?
- Financial Institutions to include banks and credit unions
- Money Service Businesses
- BSA training
- AML/CFT training
- Front-Line Staff training
- Non-bank financial institutions to include insurance companies, securities dealers, auto dealers, precious metal dealers
Why should you attend?
The frontline staff of any financial institution is the first line of defense for BSA compliance.Therefore,an ill-trained frontline staff could lead to the collapse of an institution or the imposing of enforcement actions from the regulators.A strong and well-educated frontline staff will help develop a strong back office BSA department for your institution.Often,the frontline staff does not know why they are asking BSA questions or what the focus of BSA truly is.This webinar will not only give your frontline staff viable scenarios and ways to respond during the customer question and answer process, but this training will also explain why your staff are asking the questions in the first place.Another valuable section of this webinar will teach the frontline staff when questions need to be asked. Most staff are familiar with how and why they ask questions related to CTRs and the Monetary Instrument Log, but they need to be able to look at a customer’s account history so as to understand how to ask questions related to the SAR process.
Faculty - Mr.Thomas Nollner
Thomas E. Nollner has more than 38 years of experience in financial institution supervision and consulting. Mr. Nollner spent 30 years as a National Bank Examiner (NBE) for the Controller of the Currency where he was a safety and soundness examiner and a compliance examiner. The last 15 years as an NBE and for the past 8 years as a consultant, Mr. Nollner has specialized as an AML/CFT examiner/consultant. In these roles he has analyzed financial institutions’ AML/CFT programs to ensure that they complied with applicable AML/CFT laws, rules, and regulations; he reviewed the suspicious transactions identification, monitoring, and reporting processes;he traced proceeds and transactions through several layers of activity; and he provided AML/CFT training for many different financial institutions. Mr. Nollner currently works as a consultant for the Office of Technical Assistance (OTA), a branch of the U S Treasury that assists developing countries with banking issues. Mr. Nollner is assigned to the Economic Crimes Team that focused on training, assisting, and mentoring the staffs of the financial regulatory departments and financial intelligence units of various countries regarding AML/CFT compliance. In this capacity, he worked in countries such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Turkmenistan, Viet Nam, Honduras, Guatemala, Guyana, Suriname, and Argentina developing AML/CFT examination procedures, providing AML/CFT training and mentoring, and updating local AML/CFT laws and regulations.