Check Fraud Protection Manual

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Author: Clayton P. Gillette
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Check fraud has been on the rise since Reg CC took effect, and today's available technologies are helping it to grow even faster. What is more, thieves are increasingly targeting community banks.

Now you can protect your financial institution from the degrading effects of check fraud with the expert guidance found in Sheshunoff's Check Fraud Protection Manual. No other book covers all the relevant compliance and legal issues for all forms of negotiable instruments the way it does. The focus is on taking the right steps to help your bank avoid potential liability, so you'll find useful tools like:

Tested, proven internal procedures for reducing your exposure to check fraud. Each chapter gives you specific procedures you can easily adapt to your bank's situation.
Training materials, including tips, guidance, and discussion points at the end of each chapter to ensure your staff knows how to identify and handle a potential check fraud.
Checklists designed to help you detect and prevent check fraud. These practical lists let everyone in the bank become an expert in detecting check fraud.
Compliance guidance and examples of court cases. Courts are likely to rule in your favor as long as you observe Ordinary Care as detailed in the UCC and explained in this manual.
Highlights of the important legal points, including cross-references to the industry standard Brady on Bank Checks.
Guidance on how to use Reg CC exemptions to extend funds availability deadlines.
How to use positive pay to reduce check fraud.

About the Author:

Clayton P. Gillette is a co-author of Payment Systems and Credit Instruments, a leading casebook on this subject, and the author of multiple articles concerning payments law and other areas of commercial transactions. He is the Max E. Greenberg Professor of Contract Law at New York University School of Law, where he teaches commercial law. Professor Gillette has also served as an expert witness and consultant in matters involving the use of fraudulent negotiable instruments.

Professor Gillette received his B.A. from Amherst College magna cum laude in 1972 and his J.D. magna cum laude in 1975 from the University of Michigan School of Law. After graduation from law school, Professor Gillette served as a clerk to the Honorable J. Edward Lumbard of the United States Court of Appeals and was associated with the Manhattan office of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen and Hamilton. He has served on the faculty of the University of Virginia, and prior to that was Associate Dean, Professor of Law, and Warren Scholar in Municipal Law at Boston University School of Law. He has also served as a visiting professor of law at New York University School of Law and the University of Michigan School of Law.

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