Auditing for BSA Compliance: What You Need to Know


Do you understand the scope and procedures necessary to ensure a comprehensive, risk-based audit program?  Register today for the webinar Audit Compliance Series: Auditing for BSA Compliance on Wednesday, August 24, from 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., to ensure your BSA audit is comprehensive and meets regulatory guidelines (whether you are conducting the audit or are the BSA officer monitoring whether a strong audit is performed).

This webinar will include resources to effectively test the adequacy of your BSA program. It will include a review of your BSA risk assessment and risk profile, the adequacy of the identification of higher-risk accountholders and transactions, and transaction testing of monitoring systems.

For those participating in this webinar, you can expect to learn about:

  • How to get started with an audit game plan – from the examiners' viewpoint
  • Making the audit risk-based
  • How to test down to the transaction level – including different transactional testing checklists
  • Determining whether your anti-money laundering program is adequate
  • What and how to report to the board
  • Handling third-party BSA audits


After participating in this webinar, attendees will receive: A BSA policy checklist; sample BSA request memo; transactional testing checklists for CIP, CTRs, cash aggregation, higher-risk accountholders, information sharing 314(a) & 314(b), funds transfers, SARs, privately-owned ATMs; employee training log; and a quiz you can administer to measure staff learning and a separate answer key.

This webinar is offered through the League's partnership with the CU Webinar Network.

For more information, or to register for the August 24 webinar, please click here.