BSA Officer Certification Program

Authors: Butler, Snow, O’Mara, Stevens & Cannada, PLLC
Format: Manual
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Show the regulators that your institution puts a premium on BSA/AML/OFAC compliance.

The Sheshunoff® BSA Officer Certification Program provides self-paced training giving your BSA officer the information and skills needed to administer this critical function. And successful completion of this program, together with meeting the requirements below, earns the candidate a certification from Sheshunoff — a certification that will let the candidate, your regulators, and the world know that the recipient has met the standards of education, experience, and skill required for this prestigious recognition by the industry leader in bank compliance. And it’s all done right in your bank at your candidate’s own pace and convenience!

Self-paced training has proven to be one of the most effective ways to really learn a subject in detail.

This self-paced training program is a cost-effective way to train your BSA and compliance officers. Because the training is self-paced, more is learned and retained, and the manual later becomes a handy reference to refresh the user’s memory and get fast answers.

The BSA Officer Certification Program covers

Bank Secrecy Act
USA PATRIOT Act
Anti-Money Laundering Requirements
OFAC Requirements

Requirements for Certified Sheshunoff BSA Officer (CSBO)

Successful completion of the course and examinations. Examinations are paper only with examination conditions certified.
One year experience.
Two letters of recommendation.
Signing and adhering to a Code of Ethics.
Continuing education requirements including:

Recertification every two years.
Continuing education 5 hours/year. Hours would include our audio conferences and online courses.

About the Authors

Butler, Snow, O’Mara, Stevens & Cannada, PLLC, is a law firm with a department specializing in financial institution compliance. Representing banking institutions throughout the United States, Butler Snow’s banking and financial services group is led by attorneys with extensive experience as in-house counsel and with the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). The firm serves as counsel to the Mississippi Regulatory Compliance Group (a coalition of some 40 banks).

Butler Snow’s lawyers actively participate in the Banking Law and Consumer Financial Services Committees of the American Bar Association and regularly represent clients in a wide range of engagements including applications for bank charters, merger and acquisition transactions, other routine regulatory applications, matters related to capital planning, preparation of loan and deposit account documentation, and consumer law compliance issues.

Butler Snow develops regulatory compliance course curricula for the Financial Services Library. Specific contributions are made by the following individuals:

Patsy Parkin is a regulatory compliance consultant with the firm and a specialist in consumer banking law. Mrs. Parkin advises hundreds of banks on lending regulations and trains many on complying with the myriad laws and regulatory requirements in consumer and real estate lending.

Ed Wilmesherr, Esq., is a member of the financial services group at Butler Snow. He concentrates his practice in the areas of banking and financial services law, banking regulation, and loan transactions. He also has experience in bankruptcy and creditors’ rights, commercial transactions law, and arbitration. Prior to joining Butler Snow, Mr. Wilmesherr was a member of the legal department at Deposit Guaranty National Bank for 12 years where he served as assistant general counsel and senior vice president.

Lorraine Hyde is a certified bank compliance officer and is certified as a fraud examiner by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. Ms. Hyde was employed for six years as a department head of investigation for the Division of Liquidation of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Ms. Hyde was also employed as the compliance officer, consumer loan training coordinator, and manager of consumer lending for a major Twin City thrift. Ms. Hyde’s expertise is in consumer, home equity, and small business lending, loan review and analysis, and bank fraud investigations for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC). She currently resides in Phoenix, Arizona.

Jeffrey Torp is a consultant in the area of regulatory risk for financial institutions. He specializes in the financial institution industry and has more than 25 years of experience serving financial institution clients in matters relating to bank regulation. Mr. Torp is an attorney and has previously served as a consultant with KPMG and with McGladrey & Pullen, LLP, and as legal counsel to the Independent Bankers of Minnesota. He received his law degree from William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota, and his Bachelor of Arts Degree from Augsburg College in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Mr. Torp has worked with financial institutions throughout the country on regulatory issues and given numerous presentations on regulatory topics to groups of bankers, bank examiners, trade associations, and attorneys. He has also served as an instructor for the Independent Bankers Association of America’s compliance school and certification program, and authored several publications.
Matt Schriner is a managing director with the national financial institution compliance group of RSM McGladrey. Mr. Schriner has more than 17 years of experience in assessing and managing financial institutions’ risks as a regulator, a banker, and a consultant. In his tenure with the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, he was involved in over 100 bank examinations, many of which as the lead examiner. Mr. Schriner is a frequent national speaker and writer on current challenges related to Bank Secrecy Act and anti-money laundering compliance and has authored several publications, including risk management newsletters, manuals and feature articles. He is also a featured speaker in the A.S. Pratt audio conference series.