Suspicious Activity Reporting Training

Included with Regulatory Basics course
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Course Summary

Train your team to recognize the "red flags" of financial crime and follow the correct procedures for filing SARs. This course emphasizes the importance of timely, accurate reporting to protect the financial system from illicit activity.

Included Modules:

Who must follow suspicious activity reporting requirements?

Identifies the banks, money services businesses, and other financial institutions that the Bank Secrecy Act requires to detect and report suspicious activity to FinCEN.

When do suspicious activity reporting requirements apply?

Explains the suspicion-based triggers and red-flag indicators under the BSA that determine when a financial institution must consider filing a Suspicious Activity Report.

Monitoring and detecting suspicious activity

Covers how institutions use transaction monitoring and red-flag indicators to spot potential money laundering, fraud, or other activity that may warrant a SAR.

Investigating and documenting concerns

Walks through how staff escalate, investigate, and document suspicious activity so the institution can decide whether a SAR filing is warranted under the BSA.

SAR filing requirements

Details how and when institutions file Suspicious Activity Reports with FinCEN, including the filing deadlines and recordkeeping the Bank Secrecy Act requires.

SAR quality, confidentiality, and board reporting

Explains how to write clear, complete SAR narratives, comply with strict SAR confidentiality rules, and keep the board informed of suspicious activity reporting.

Consequences of SAR violations

Outlines the civil penalties, criminal liability, and regulatory consequences institutions and individuals face for failing to meet BSA suspicious activity reporting duties.

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