Bio:
Mary Beth Guard is one of the four co-founders of BankersOnline and is now Editor Emeritus, after more than 16 years of serving as Executive Editor. She was instrumental in the creation and expansion of BankersOnline, as well as the launch more than a decade ago of BOL Conferences, Inc. and its continued operation and growth. Mary Beth is also the director of BankCompliance.com, the subscription-based compliance service now being offered online. Also, Mary Beth serves as CEO of Glia Group, Inc., which produces BOL Learning Connect. For nearly four decades, Mary Beth has utilized her background as an attorney to focus on banking industry issues, first as general counsel for the Oklahoma State Banking Department, then as general counsel for the Oklahoma Bankers Association, prior to her work with BankersOnline.
Mary Beth has presented training programs for virtually every major national financial industry association, as well as more than a dozen state bankers associations and a host of other organizations. She is a frequent presenter of webinars and seminars. In addition, Mary Beth has written more than a thousand banking-related articles and is BOL Guru #1.
Areas of Expertise:
Compliance Seminars
Lending & Operations Compliance Matrices
Questions Answered
02/16/2020
The wife was here to open a new joint account with her husband. He travels all the time and wasn’t able to be here. We opened the joint account and let her take a signature card for him to sign ASAP. Problem?
06/16/2019
Is it legal for us to have a policy of prohibiting customers from engaging in marijuana-related businesses?
06/16/2019
Harold and Tom have a joint account. Is there a problem with them using that same account for their business?
06/09/2019
Has FinCEN issued any new guidance on banking marijuana-related businesses? Has it rescinded its 2014 guidance?
06/09/2019
Our customer is furious because we paid a check on his account that he wrote over eight months ago. He claims that was illegal because the check was stale-dated.
06/02/2019
I was told the 2018 Farm Bill legalized CBD. Is that true?
06/02/2019
We made a car loan and sent a cashier’s check to pay off the prior lender. The cashier’s check got lost. Can we go ahead and replace it?
05/26/2019
Would HR 1595 provide protection when lending to MRBs?
02/24/2019
Our customer deposited a check without endorsing it. We accepted it and sent it through the check processing system. The drawer of the check has called and said he wants his money back from us because the check wasn’t endorsed. Now what?
11/04/2018
Why is CBD sometimes mentioned in discussions about marijuana?
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