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RE: Friday Funnies

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Written by Mike King   
Friday, 16 May 2008
 

RE: Recent Toner Scams

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Written by Aiden Michaels   
Monday, 12 May 2008
scams.jpgThe “phoner toner” scam usually involves a series of phone calls. In the first set, the caller hopes to find a new employee, temp, or person who will freely give information. Posing as the company’s vendor or perhaps as a survey taker, the caller asks the employee to read the make and model number off the nearest printer. Faced with such a harmless-seeming request—and not realizing a legitimate vendor would probably know the information already—the employee complies.
 

Why do Banks get into Trouble?

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Written by Frank Cummings   
Saturday, 12 April 2008

“The One Factor” or the parable of compliance.

 Once about a time there was a wise old Compliance Officer, being close to retirement he had taken on a understudy, a young and impressionable chap, but very eager to learn.  One day while reviewing the Bank’s Risk Assessment together, the young man asked, how can you explain that our Bank has never received a enforcement action when the banks some of my friends work for have, what’s the difference? The wise old compliance officer thought about it for a moment, and then said, do you know what a parable is?  The young man said yes, yes I do. Good, said the wise old compliance officer, here is one that can explain what you want to know.
 

Just Got Here

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Written by James McCallum   
Thursday, 27 March 2008
We are new to Bankwide.

As a provider of digital content to the small mid-size business market, we sell our risk management products through commercial banks.