Banking, Financial Services Regulatory Compliance Training - Live Webinars, Recordings & CDs

This webinar will go through every section of the revised FFIEC Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering Examination Manual to highlight changes and areas where banks should review their internal policies, processes and procedures for compliance. Understanding these changes will keep you prepared and updated for your next BSA/AML examination.

This training program will help attendees approach the writing situation with a clear and useful strategy. It will include strategies to fuse the purpose of the summary with the issues that matter to your audience. Attendees will also learn to sort ideas to clarify key points and craft paragraphs that reinforce the intent of the executive summary.

For years the IRS has struggled with the independent contractor and tax collection. In assessing opportunities to close the tax gap (taxes due but not reported or paid), one of the greatest opportunities comes from expanding the information reporting on taxpayers by payors – the 1099. This time-consuming reporting obligation can be streamlined in a number of ways. Join us to learn more…

This BSA compliance training on Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR) will provide details on how to prepare a SAR (Suspicious Activity Reporting) narrative that meets examiner scrutiny and provides necessary detail for law enforcement.

This training on business writing will provide attendees tools and tips for effectively writing financial documents for diverse audiences. Learn best practices for getting an immediate response to any written document.

This course provides guidance in how to implement and maintain the desired level of credit risk management with practical tools and techniques. Both the market and the regulatory agencies expect credit risk management to reflect the bank’s credit culture, so the class also offers direction on how to identify the organization’s credit culture and to reposition it to support the desired credit risk culture and management.

Learn the best practices for eliminating 1099 error notices from the IRS. Discover the power of the TIN Matching system. Discover the smoothest way to register to use the two step verification process introduced 12/10/17. Learn how to handle the CP-2100 notices from Uncle Sam and avoid the fines & penalties for failure to timely comply with the B-Notice requirements. Understand the difference between and 1st and 2nd B-Notice and the related differences in required vendor responses. Be sure you institute and stop Backup Withholding when required. Join us for a content-rich 2-hours and you will gain the tools to make you the most effective information return manager your company has ever seen.

This anti-money laundering training will describe the reasons and methods of money laundering in financial institutions. This will help attendees to protect themselves from regulatory risk by establishing an effective anti-money laundering system within their financial institution. Also this webinar will explain various types of money laundering and how to identify the red flags of money laundering in an account within your institution.

In this webinar Banks and Credit Unions (Financial Institutions) will gain a core understanding of the BSA/AML risks, risk mitigation techniques and potential rewards of banking MSBs. This course is designed to assist Financial Institutions in formulating their strategy for banking MSBs, regulatory bodies overseeing MSB compliance, income and expense characteristics in banking MSBs, balance sheet impacts, perceptions and misperceptions of MSBs, risk between MSB entities and how to strengthen your financial institution’s BSA/AML program.

This webinar will discuss common deficiencies that are discovered in compilation and review engagements, as a result of peer review. It will explain the difference between minor deficiencies and major deficiencies. Instructor will discuss how to avoid these common mistakes and what the most common deficiencies are.

This training on BSA compliance will help you understand the concept of tax evasion and tax fraud and the difference between the two. Learn the best practices to identify tax fraud and how to report suspicious activity.

This webinar will highlight the steps to identify and evaluate high-risk customers. Learn how to perform BSA, AML risk assessments.

If you are involved in the implementation and auditing of corporate procedures, this webinar will help you ensure effective implementation of the Basel accords.

This webinar will refresh your understanding of bookkeeping engagements as well as guidance on withdrawing from an engagement, documentation required, fraud considerations, and internal control. It is important to have control processes for bookkeeping engagements just as we do for attest functions.

This webinar will explain what money laundering is, various types of money laundering including structuring, micro-structuring and cuckoo smurfing. Attendees will learn how to identify the red flags of money laundering in an account within your institution.

In this webinar attendees will learn current law and regulations regarding the preparation of Forms W-4 and the filing of Forms W-2 and will provide practical guidance in these areas that have become the subject of increasing IRS scrutiny. It will cover topics related to how to report cost of employer sponsored health coverage, How to handle expense reimbursements made to employees, process to efficiently execute an electronic W-4 program, requirements of Electronic filing with the SSA using Business Services Online (BSO).

In this training program attendees will learn how to manage nonresident alien payee' tax issues in compliance with IRS information reporting and backup withholding requirements for NRAs. Also attendees will learn the five variations of forms W-8 including the new W-8BEN-E just released in Q1-2014. It will help attendees establish which W-8 to provide NRAs working for them.

Skilled auditors require a method that aligns what they experienced during the reviewing process with what they compose during the writing process. This report writing workshop will provide foundation resources that participants can continually turn to during intense, complex audit engagements.

Learn when and how you must compensate employees for travel time. Ensure you comply with the requirements under the Portal Act. Get an update on IRS travel expense documentation requirements. Learn about employer liability for accidents of traveling employees. Clearly define when employee meals are 100% deductible and when they are only 50% deductible. Understand the limitations when personal and business travel and entertainment are mixed. Ensure your records will stand the scrutiny of a compensation or tax audit.

Do you know how to make a proper determination between an employee and an independent contractor? If not, you should attend a briefing on the rules and regulations available to help you with this complicated and risky issue.