Posted by Sonya Mills on Wed, Feb 17, 2010 @ 05:20 AM
Episode #16 - February 12, 2010
Episode length: 17 minutes, 24 seconds
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Intro:
Have Questions?
Question of the Week:
- A banker was, "Wondering if anyone was running the Sheshunoff Platinum Overdraft program in a virtual environment. Sheshunoff has indicated that there are some banks running VM, but has not certified their programs to run in that environment yet."
- If you've got an answer, please login to Control and share your experience.
Industry News:
Compliance Challenge:
- Anti-Harassment: Ensuring a work environment that is not hostile
- Making sure that policy is read & understood annually by all employees
- IT department must also prevent internet access to offensive material
- Anti-Harassment ActionPack
FreePolicyTuesday:
Completely free on www.continuity.net for 1 week, after which, it's available only to registered users of Continuity Control.
- Customer Identification Program (CIP) policy
a component of your BSA program - Please send your requests and/or your policies to share to policies@continuity.net. If we select your policy to share on Control's Free Policy Tuesday, we'll send you a Continuity Engine mug as a token of gratitude.
Closing Comments:
- Please ask questions and/or let us know if there are any policies or compliance challenges you'd like to see us tackle. Many ways to contact us are found in the Have Questions? section above. - If we feature your question or comment, we'll send you a Control mug.
- That's a wrap folks. Remember, we're Continuity and we're here to help!
Posted by Sonya Mills on Mon, Feb 08, 2010 @ 12:50 PM
Episode #15 February 5, 2010
Episode length: 17 minutes, 56 seconds
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Intro:
Have Questions?
Question of the Week:
- A banker on Twitter asked this week: Looking for a good sample of guidelines/policy for evaluating and implementing outbound links to third-party websites, could include from main site or social spaces? Any suggestions?
- Jim is crafting a Weblinking policy for this week's FreePolicyTuesday. If you've got a policy you'd like to share, please send it to policies@continuity.net and we'll send you a Continuity Engine mug as a token of gratitude.
Industry News:
Compliance Challenge: BSA Risk Assessment Program
FreePolicyTuesday:
Completely free on www.continuity.net for 1 week, after which, it's available only to registered users of Continuity Control.
- Look for the new WebLinking policy on Tuesday February 9, 2010
- Please send your requests and/or your policies to share to policies@continuity.net. If we select your policy to share on Control's Free Policy Tuesday, we'll send you a Continuity Engine mug as a token of gratitude.
Closing Comments:
- Please ask questions and/or let us know if there are any policies or compliance challenges you'd like to see us tackle. Many ways to contact us are found in the Have Questions? section above. - If we feature your question or comment, we'll send you a Control mug.
- That's a wrap folks. Remember, we're Continuity and we're here to help!
Posted by Sonya Mills on Mon, Feb 01, 2010 @ 12:35 PM
Episode #14 - January 29, 2010
Episode length: 14 minutes, 21 seconds
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Intro:
Have Questions?
Question of the Week:
- Does anyone participate in the BIC Borrower in Custody Collateral Program with the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia? If so, how do you provide them with your monthly report?
- If you've got an answer, please chime in. We've cross posted this to LinkedIn Compliance Support Group and Control
Industry News:
Compliance Challenge:
FreePolicyTuesday:
Completely free on www.continuity.net for 1 week, after which, it's available only to registered users of Continuity Control.
- Strategic Planning
- Please send your requests and/or your policies to share to policies@continuity.net. If we select your policy to share on Control's Free Policy Tuesday, we'll send you a Continuity Engine mug as a token of gratitude.
Closing Comments:
- Please ask questions and/or let us know if there are any policies or compliance challenges you'd like to see us tackle. Many ways to contact us are found in the Have Questions?
section above. - If we feature your question or comment, we'll send you a Control mug.
- That's a wrap folks. Remember, we're Continuity and we're here to help!
Posted by Sonya Mills on Mon, Jan 25, 2010 @ 12:38 PM
Episode #13 - January 22, 2010
Episode length: 11 minutes, 28 seconds
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Intro:
Have Questions?
Question of the Week:
This question came in from the
Compliance Support Group
- What do folks use to assess the compliance cost to your institutions? I was having a discussion with Rob Strand, an economist at the ABA, who'd developed a cool tool for assessing the total cost [of banking compliance]
. Has anyone used it, or are there others like it?
Please stop by the Compliance Support group and share your experience calculating the cost of compliance for your financial institution.
Industry News:
Compliance Challenge:
- Bank Secrecy Act Wire Transfer
- what types of suspicious activity need to be identified when doing wire transfers
FreePolicyTuesday:
Completely free on www.continuity.net for 1 week, after which, it's available only to registered users of Continuity Control.
- Bank Secrecy Act Wire Transfer policy
- Please send your requests and/or your policies to share to policies@continuity.net. If we select your policy to share on Control's Free Policy Tuesday, we'll send you a Continuity Engine mug as a token of gratitude.
Closing Comments:
- Look for more announcements of ActionPack Alliance partners coming in the near future!
- Please ask questions and/or let us know if there are any policies or compliance challenges you'd like to see us tackle. Many ways to contact us are found in the Have Questions?
section above. - If we feature your question or comment, we'll send you a Control mug.
- That's a wrap folks. Remember, we're Continuity Engine and we're here to help!
Posted by Sonya Mills on Mon, Jan 18, 2010 @ 04:59 PM
Episode #12 - January 15, 2010
Episode length: 11 minutes, 15 seconds
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Intro:
Have Questions?
Question of the Week:
Share your response on Control.
Industry News:
Compliance Challenge:
FreePolicyTuesday:
Completely free on www.continuity.net for 1 week, after which, it's available only to registered users of Continuity Control.
- IT Exam Policy
- Please send your requests and/or your policies to share to policies@continuity.net. If we select your policy to share on Control's Free Policy Tuesday, we'll send you a Continuity Engine mug as a token of gratitude.
Closing Comments:
- reminder ask questions and let us know if there are any policies or compliance challenges you'd like to see us tackle: Control, LinkedIn, Twitter links in show notes - If we feature your question or comment, we'll send you a Control mug.
- That's a wrap folks, remember, We're Continuity and we're here to help!
Posted by Sonya Mills on Tue, Jan 12, 2010 @ 06:18 AM
Episode #11 - January 8, 2010
Episode length: 14 minutes, 42 seconds
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Intro:
Have Questions?
Question of the Week:
- Do I need a Back Office Capture policy?
- Legacy Community and today's Control - Confused?
Industry News:
- Gartner Analysts predict By 2013, the cost of regulatory compliance and risk management will have “priced” Tier 3 and Tier 4 U.S. banks from the market.
- Move Your Money
- announced by Huffington Post on Dec 29, going viral across the country, started as community FIs with community bank search, now added ICBA & CUNA search links as well as a BankRate.com link
- ABA Banking Journal article about challenges raised by the FFIEC's relatively new guidelines (Jan 09) for RDC
Compliance Challenge:
- What: Compliance Training
- Compliance Training calendar: try not to exceed more than 1 training per month
- append training to another meeting that's already taking place monthly, such as a staff meeting
- some trainings must happen every year (security training, information security awareness, etc.)
- interweave some more relevant trainings (recent recommendations & industry hotbuttons)
- Compliance Training ActionPack
FreePolicyTuesday:
- Please send your requests and/or your policies to share to policies@continuity.net. If we select your policy to share on Control's Free Policy Tuesday, we'll send you a Continuity Engine mug as a token of gratitude.
Closing Comments:
- reminder ask questions and let us know if there are any policies or compliance challenges you'd like to see us tackle: Control, LinkedIn, Twitter links in show notes - If we feature your question or comment, we'll send you a Control mug.
- That's a wrap folks, remember, We're Continuity and we're here to help!
Posted by Sonya Mills on Wed, Dec 23, 2009 @ 08:09 AM
Episode #10 - December 18, 2009
Episode length: 12 minutes, 50 seconds
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Intro:
Have Questions?
Continuity Engine's 2009 in Review:
Remote Deposit Capture:
- Remote Deposite Capture ActionPack (Susan Orr)
- Businesses can scan checks for deposit directly from their place of business.
- Risk assessments of product and Risk assessments of merchants.
- As a member of the ActionPack Alliance, Susan worked closely with Continuity to create the Remote Deposit Capture ActionPack and has crafted some great materials, such as the assessments, to go along with this ActionPack.
- Site Inspections and Awareness Training are critical activities.
FreePolicyTuesday:
Completely free on www.continuity.net for 1 week, after which, it's available only to registered users of Continuity Control.
Closing Comments:
- Happy Holidays! We'll see you again in 2010
- please leave any feedback in the comments section
Posted by Sonya Mills on Wed, Dec 16, 2009 @ 04:52 PM
Episode #9 - December 11, 2009
Episode length: 12 minutes, 39 seconds
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Intro:
Have Questions?
Deterring & Responding to Robberies ActionPack:
- Troy Evans ActionPack
- Troy was convicted of robbing 5 institutions
- He brings his experience, in addition to information gleaned from interviews with 300 bank robbers, to his training program for banks and credit unions to deter and respond to robberies.
- As a member of the ActionPack Alliance, Troy worked closely with Continuity to create the Deterring and Responding to Robberies ActionPack that works in conjunction with the training DVD to automate the necessary activities.
New Features - Continuity Control:
FreePolicyTuesday:
Completely free on www.continuity.net for 1 week, after which, it's available only to registered users of Continuity Control.
Closing Comments:
- please leave any feedback in the comments section
Posted by Sonya Mills on Mon, Nov 02, 2009 @ 11:20 AM
Episode
#8.239 - October 29, 2009
Episode length: 3 minutes, 47
seconds
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Intro:
What's Happening @ Continuity:
- Bling! We earned an award at the Financial Technology Insight show in Boston. Voted Best Value for the Money/ROI by CIOs
- CT Technology Council awarded - Most Significant Early Stage Investment
- Announced ActionPack Alliance @ Finnovate in NYC on September 29th (Agility, Perimeter, many more!)
- Pete Halenar, formerly Vice President of Business Development & Strategic Alliances
at
Open Solutions Inc, has joined our team!
Posted by Sonya Mills on Sun, Sep 13, 2009 @ 10:50 AM
Episode #8 - September 11, 2009
Episode length: 18 minutes, 02 seconds
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Intro:
Have Questions?
Forum Fodder:
- OFAC: primary reasons for OFAC are to prevent funding of terrorist groups and narcotics cartels
- Compliance Support Group: "What is your financial institution doing to curtail chronic OFAC offenders?"
- Compliance is always a "people issue"
- Contests - 100% compliance earns reward - not a long term solution
- Emphasize WHY - OFAC put into place & WHAT - penalties for institutions non-compliance
- Fundamental problem #1: information overload. Distill into relevant information and specific procedures.
- Fundamental problem #2: direction. Automate compliance with relevant information presented at the right time.
FreePolicyTuesday:
Completely free on www.continuity.net for 1 week, after which, it's available only to registered users of Continuity Control.
Closing Comments:
- UNITI East conference next week
- please leave any feedback in the comments section