By: Timothy Stokes, CRCM, Managing Director Financial institutions are operating in an environment where technological development is occurring at an […]
Category: Blogs
FinCEN’s SAR FAQ Update: Clarity, Common Sense, and Compliance Reform
By Timothy Stokes, CRCM, Managing Director Recently, FinCEN published another piece of guidance for the industry outlining substantial updates to […]
Summer of Servicemembers: Recapping DOJ’s SCRA Activity
By Ryan Labriola, Senior Manager Over the course of this past summer, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) pursued […]
Debanking: A Compliance Tightrope
By Lynn Woosley, Managing Director, Asurity Advisors On August 7, 2025, President Trump issued Executive Order 14331, “Guaranteeing Fair Banking […]
Crunching the Numbers: Elevating Compliance Risk with Quantitative Intelligence
By Melissa Ettel, Senior Consultant As the regulatory environment evolves, financial institutions are reassessing their approaches to compliance risk. The […]
Under New Management: The Trump Administration Reshapes Federal Banking Supervision
By Lynn Woosley, Managing Director, Asurity Advisors With the recent confirmations of Michelle Bowman as Vice Chair for Supervision at […]
Efficiency as a Mandate: BSA Modernization and Its Implications for Financial Institutions
By: Timothy Stokes, CRCM, Managing Director In mid-June 2025, Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Michael Faulkender delivered prepared remarks at […]
Reconsideration of Value: A critical component of appraisal review
By CARL PRY, CRCM, CRP – Senior Advisor for Asurity Advisors (Article originally published in ABA Risk and Compliance, May/June […]
How Chief Compliance Officers Can Juggle Priorities in a Sea of Change
By: Timothy Stokes, CRCM, Managing Director Many Chief Compliance Officers have heard, or even said the phrase “If you think […]
FinCEN Extends Beneficial Ownership Information Reporting Deadline
By Bart Statowski, Director of Advisory Services On February 18, 2025, the U.S. District court for the Eastern District of […]