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| March, 2006 |
The hottest articles, best Threads, latest products, new faces,
and a look at some of the sponsors and advertisers who make it all possible!
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A warm welcome to the companies who joined or renewed BankersOnline.com or BOL Vendor Connect during the past month as advertisers or sponsors. These companies help make BOL possible. Click their links to learn about them!
Green Armor Solutions
Provider of unique FFIEC-compliant two-factor authentication and anti-fraud systems leveraging a combination of technology and psychology to deliver both maximum security and maximum user convenience.
Mantissa Corporation
Mantissa Corporation, a major systems solution provider for over 25 years, now offers real-time protection from identity theft and fraud by placing identity owners in control of access to their identity assets.
Net Deposit
Source for solutions that include tools for distributed capture as well as consolidating, sorting, and routing of electronic items. |
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Risk Rating Customers
Many BOL users commented in the threads about a presentation they saw in outreach seminars relating to Risk Rating Customers under the new BSA exam procedures. We'd like to thank BOL user Kathleen Blanchard for helping us implement this request. And we'd certainly like to thank the authors, Rick Small of Citigroup and John Byrne from the ABA (now from Bank of America) for their permission to make this available. This is a 19-page presentation on developing and improving your customer risk rating process.
Training for FACTA Medical Information
BOL user Lady Lois Lane was looking ahead to April 1 when the FACTA medical rules are mandatory. Knowing that it was time to train, she gathered some information in the Threads from the posts of her peers. Since that was the key source of her material, she is returning it in the form of a PowerPoint presentation that you may customize and use for your training needs. Seventeen slides contain the basics of what is allowed, what is not and how this affects loan decisions and pricing.
Monitoring Information Collection Guide
Created by Jim Bedsole some years ago, this Monitoring Information Collection Guide was recently updated by Ellen Cavanaugh to keep up with the requirements now imposed on GMI. We know many found this tool useful in the past, and will find it useful all over again, without your hand-written notes on the side.
BSA/AML/OFAC Board Training
Two BOL users, Devil Queen and Empress EGB, pooled their resources and created some often-requested, higher level training for BSA/AML/OFAC. They created two versions of a PowerPoint BSA/AML/OFAC Board Training presentation. One version has more details in the slides than the other. Be sure to look at the speaker's notes to help you along.
Community Development Loan Data - 2004
Len Suzio, of GeoDataVision has made available the most current list of Community Development loans, by state and subdivided by bank. When you need to do peer analysis on what you have done for CRA, compared to similar institutions in your area or by market, this is your stop. There are 96 pages in this report sorted by state and by reporting institutions within them. Each has the number of CD loans and the loan amount. These data are for the 2004 reporting year. When the 2005 data are available in late summer, GeoDataVision has promised them in this useful form again.
Get In-Depth Reports from GeoDataVision
Now available in the BOL Banker Store:
Small Business Loan Market Database Report (CD)
and
Mortgage Market Database Report (CD)
If you are involved in any part of the process in your institution that deals with Suspicious Activity Reports (SAR), you need to review and bookmark the BankersOnline Research Guide to SARs. We've taken the SAR Activity Reports and divided them by informational category. You have 17 areas of research and practical examples including trends, disclosing SARs, MSB issues, and understanding the 21 categories of SAR filing and what laws might apply to each. There is a LOT of information here that you will want to come back to when you have urgent issues, requiring SAR attention. |
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 Executive Guide to Compliance Regulations (Pack of 10)
This new product in the Banker Store is a concise summary of the alphabet soup of banking regulations. Created by Compliance Action editor Lucy Griffin, this 31-page guide provides an overview of all the banking regs so you can concentrate on the details you are trying to convey. It is perfect for:
• board meetings
• compliance presentations
• training
• new hires
• orientation
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We also added:
15 New Forms for Reg E, Reg CC and ACH
6 New Job Descriptions for BSA Officer, Bank Security Officer, Compliance Officer, CRA Officer, Privacy Officer and Compliance Specialist.
1999-2005 Coins Starter Kit that features all the quarters from the first six years, from Dolly Nugent, Delaware through West Virginia.
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 This month, we welcome our newest guru, Sandy Dumont.
Sandy Dumont, The Image Architect®, is an international leader in the field of color and image and a pioneer in the field of image psychology and impression strategies. She has 30 years' experience working with Fortune 500 companies, and has lectured and coached throughout Europe and the U.S. She is a graduate of John Robert Powers Fashion & Finishing School, Washington, DC, a former faculty member of The Barbizon (fashion) School, Washington, DC, and a former faculty member of Management Center Europe, Brussels, Belgium.
Sandy is featured regularly on radio, TV and in print. She is the author of four e-books on the subject of Image and has produced a series of "Impression Strategies" DVDs. Her skill sets are in the areas of corporate and political image, branding, risk communications, executive management media interactions, and situations of litigation. Ms. Dumont provides the necessary actions and training required in an environment where perceptions drive motivations, performance and marketplace position. She has a particular interest in the branding and image needs of financial industry personnel.
Read Sandy's article, "Yes, Business Casual May Be Hurting Your Image" in Bankers Online's Executive Briefing. |
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Here are links to the most popular articles accessed by you and referred to colleagues during the past month.
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With over 520,000 messages, Bankers' Threads has no equal as a spot for bankers to network and exchange information. Here are links to the most frequented threads last month.
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If a picture is truly worth a thousand words, our eCard Exchange speaks volumes. Browse our gallery of photographic art and less serious offerings and you'll find just the right image to convey your words. Click here and take a look!
You might want to send this card from our CRA/HMDA group to whoever it is in your organization who struggled with you through the last few days of February to meet that daunting submission deadline. |
 If it's the luck o' the Irish you're wishing a colleague this month, take a look at our St. Patrick's Day collection. But don't be sending any limericks, now!
BOL eCard Exchange
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