As regulatory pressures continue to mount, financial institutions are looking to their frontline staff to act effectively as their first line of defense when it comes to ensuring that the bank is acting in a compliant way with customers and discovering potential problems or bad actors in their own day-to-day operations.

In the wake of recent well-publicized breaches of cybersecurity, regulations and new legislation has proliferated, putting bank directors in the cross-hairs of scrutiny for potential liability.

Most financial institutions take an iterative approach to their budgeting process – running through multiple passes and scenarios before finalizing.

On a regular basis, the banking regulators publish information about the most commonly cited compliance violations.

Over the last several years, bank governance, risk and compliance (GRC) programs worldwide have been placed under increased scrutiny by regulators, elected officials and the public.

As payments continue to innovate, so do the methods fraudsters utilize to exploit vulnerabilities.

Each bank is unique in that it possesses a distinct strategy, asset mix, product selection, customer base and risk profile that differentiates it from others.

Whistleblowing.

Everyone who works in financial services has heard something about the Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR).

Banks have always employed third-party vendors to build proprietary software applications and perform compartmentalized tasks in order to run more efficiently.

In the wake of recent well-publicized data breaches, the financial services industry is looking at tokenization as a means of improving the security around payments.

There have been two significant pieces of recent regulatory guidance that will directly impact the overall administration of your institution’s Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering (BSA/AML) compliance program.

With fraud prevention, many banks emphasize how their systems leverage “big data” to find patterns of unusual activity by using data analytics to process through millions of transactions and pinpoint fraudulent activity.

Finally, years after the global financial crisis and the new regulations and consumer mistrust it produced, banks are looking at forecasts of increased consumer and commercial lending activity.

Credit delinquency has been a serious problem for banks over the last decade, particularly between 2008 and 2011.

Data governance – the process by which banks ensure that the data they manage and ultimately include in their financial statements is accurate and trustworthy – has become increasingly critical as financial services institutions face immense regulatory scrutiny to prove the trustworthiness of those financial statements.

An increasing number of community bankers are asking themselves whether its worth the hassle – and the risk – to originate mortgages, particularly after the passage of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and the subsequent promulgation of the qualified mortgage and ability-to-repay rules.

It’s time to simplify overdraft (OD) fees.

Banking is not being disrupted; it is being evolved.

Following the 2008 financial crisis, the Basel Committee of Banking Supervision (BCBS) set out to “strengthen global capital and liquidity rules with the goal of promoting a more resilient banking sector,” formulating rules of which the final phase went into effect in January.