Independent Review for MSBs - The Complete BSA/AML Audit Workbook


Book Description

This Workbook may save you thousands of dollars! The Workbook guides you through each step of the PATRIOT Act independent review requirement. Each question is fully explained, and FinCEN guidance is also included. The format is designed to be acceptable to bank AML compliance departments as well as state and IRS examiners. Some MSBs' operations are very complex and require outside auditors to conduct testing. Yet even in those cases, by doing much of the audit work by yourself, you can significantly reduce the cost spent on outside help. Many MSBs have found that they do not need outside audit help at all and that the Workbook is all they need to maintain compliance and stay in the good graces of their bank. This is the only Bank Secrecy/PATRIOT Act independent review guide endorsed by the National Money TRansmitters Association




Independent Review for Banks - The Complete BSA/AML Audit Workbook


Book Description

Using the FFIEC Examination Manual to conduct an independent review is like using the owner's manual of a car to judge a driver's abilities. Wrong tool for the job! The Complete Audit Workbook ensures that audit professionals and BSA officers have the right tool to conduct the PATRIOT Act (Section 352) required independent review. The Workbook breaks down BSA/AML regulatory requirements into component parts that enable an auditor to judge whether all the i's and t's of a BSA compliance program are dotted and crossed. Guidance for each major category of questions (over 50 in all!) is included. Audit traps, --items seen only in confidential exit interviews-- are also included. The audience for this book is both BSA auditors and compliance officers. The latter can utilize the Workbook to design a comprehensive, sustainable AML program. The former can use this Workbook to check their firm's BSA program status and carry out their duty to keep senior management informed.




Risk Assessment for Tribal Casinos


Book Description

The Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) requires that designated financial institutions implement and maintain anti-money laundering (AML) programs. Tribal casinos have been designated as financial institutions under the BSA since 1996, and the BSA regulations issued by the Treasury Department in 31 C.F.R. 103.64 prescribe the minimum standards for those programs. All tribal governments conducting or sponsoring gaming activities - whether for one night out of the year or throughout the year, whether in their primary place of operation or at remote sites - must be aware of the federal requirements associated with the Bank Secrecy Act. This workbook will allow the casino compliance officer to conduct and write a formal risk assessment that can serve as the basis for the casino's AML program.




Enhanced Due Diligence - The Complete BSA/AML Desktop Reference


Book Description

Finally, there is a one-stop Enhanced Due Diligence reference source! This book clearly presents methods for risk assessing customers and developing policies, procedures and controls for implementing a sustainable AML enhanced due diligence compliance program. The book not only addresses risk models, risk categories and risk elements, but also provides detailed information regarding specific high risk customer types. "The Desktop Reference" contains sample EDD reviews and everything you need to develop and maintain your EDD program, train your staff, and reduce regulatory risk. This book also teaches how to risk assess different customer types, how to conduct customer on-boarding EDD, and how to conduct ongoing EDD reviews. Sample EDD reviews include those for: Cash Intensive Businesses, Charities and NGOs, Foreign Correspondent Banks, and Private Banking Customers. Also covered are: MSBs and NBFIs, Senior Foreign Political Figures, Non Resident Aliens, and generic high risk customer types.




Sar Investigations - the Complete Bsa/Aml Desktop Reference


Book Description

Finally there is a reference source that brings together all the available anti-money laundering and Bank Secrecy Act guidance and best practices for conducting suspicious activity report (SAR) investigations. This book offers a treasure trove of information that will make your SAR process more efficient while simultaneously reducing compliance risk. The authors detail how to conduct suspicious activity investigations in a step-by-step manner and provide all the information you'll need to understand and identify a full range of financial crimes and schemes.




WTO, Globalization and China's Health Care System


Book Description

This book considers the key sectors of China's health care system after its entrance into the WTO, including the pharmaceutical industry, health insurance services, and hospitals in terms of policies, legal framework and market potential. It offers a critical analysis of the impact of the WTO and globalization on China's health care.




Evaporation and Evapotranspiration


Book Description

The book is a thorough presentation of theoretical and applied aspects of the evaporation and evapotranspiration process supported by data from experimental studies. It is written in a way that the theoretical background of evaporation and evapotranspiration estimation is presented in a simplified manner, comprehensive to most technical readers. The book deals with details of meteorological parameters and monitoring sensors which are needed for estimating evaporation and evapotranspiration. Errors in meteorological parameter measurements are also presented. Estimation errors, strengths, weaknesses and applicability of a wide range of evaporation and evapotranspiration estimation methods are presented along with samples of application to a certain region. Application of newer simpler methods is presented. A new technology, remote sensing application to evaporation and evapotranspiration estimation, is presented. The latest interest in the subject, climate change and evapotranspiration is presented in the last chapter. This book will be beneficial to students, hydrologists, engineers, meteorologists, water managers and others.




Obesity Before Birth


Book Description

This volume will explore the epidemiology and the basic mechanisms of each of these prenatal phenomena, in an attempt to explain the role of the prenatal environment in promoting postnatal weight gain. This information will contribute to resolving the nature-nurture controversy. This information provides guidance to clinical practitioners involved in both prenatal and postnatal care. This volume further stimulates research into underlying mechanisms and prevention and treatment of this phenomenon.




International Employer Brand Management


Book Description

The increasing globalization of business activities forces companies to recruit highly skilled employees all over the world. In order to attract these talents, employers have to differentiate themselves through a unique employer brand, appealing to diverse target audiences. However, in the absence of research on international students' preferences for employer characteristics, it is difficult for multinational companies to decide on a feasible degree of employer brand standardization. Lena Christians investigates the impact of between-country differences, such as in national culture or economic wealth, on students' preferences in relation to individual differences of students within the same country. In combination with a segmentation of the European graduate market, the results provide readers with inside on which elements of the employer value proposition are suitable for standardization in which target groups.




Kanban-Controlled Manufacturing Systems


Book Description

5th Werner Kern Award for Productivity Research 2005 Kanban control systems bear a great potential to significantly improve operations. A company may reap the full benefits of kanban control only after determining an optimal or near-optimal system configuration. To do that, methods are needed to evaluate the performance and operating costs of individual system configurations. We propose an innovative construction-kit approach that enables us to build stochastic analytical models of a large class of single- and multi-product kanban systems. The presented construction-kit approach may be extended and augmented in various directions.