BSA EMERGING TRENDS AND BEST PRACTICES

Legal expert Alcides Avila from Avila, Rodriguez, Hernandez, Mena & Ferri LLP will be our moderator for this BSA seminar. This seminar will be divided into three informative sessions:

BSA OFFICER PANEL:

Our panelists will go over approaches on how to manage Correspondent Banking risk, reviewing the Customer Due Diligence- Beneficial Ownership Rule (one year later) and how Artificial Intelligence can benefit a BSA Department.

SPEAKERS:

Barbara Brick – Ocean Bank
Alba Prestamo – Banesco USA
Jason Garrandes – Continental National Bank

REGULATORY PANEL & LEGAL EXPERT:

Our regulatory panel will go over Emerging Issues such as: Marijuana business, Virtual Currency, Advanced Data Analytics and FINTECH. Additionally, they will discuss aspects of the BSA Program such as how to prepare a well-documented Risk Assessment, Customer Risk Profile, CDD-Beneficial Ownership, Suspicious Activity Monitoring, OFAC and how to analyze and reduce sanction risks related to entities owned by individuals or governments.

SPEAKERS:

Rick MacNamara – Federal Reserve Board
Marian Guzman Gutierrez – Office of Financial Research (OFR)
Craig Hirsh – Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC)
Jorge Maklouf – Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Gabriel Caballero, Partner Holland & Knight

CONSULTANT EXPERT:

PAAST – Model Validation Presentation Best Practices.
PAAST will go over best practices for an effective and efficient BSA Model.