2025 Safe Deposit Compliance & Legal Update
About This Course
Recent government search and seizure vault raid, poor box relocations, sloppy box drillings, poor recordkeeping and because many financial institutions are now eliminating their safe deposit box service, this has significantly impacted our industry. Following these events, institutions have unfortunately been confronted with tough decisions, challenges, significant lawsuits and damaging newspaper and unwanted TV coverage.
Did you inherit the safe deposit area and then start wondering what liability might exist? Historically, this responsibility has been routinely passed from one employee to another with very little training or attention given to existing safe deposit procedures. record keeping or documentation. Unfortunately, only after discovering a mistake, experiencing a vault raid or having a lawsuit occur, does management turn its attention to this area.
Whether you have 50 or 5,000 boxes, this presentation provides a realistic and well-organized method of reviewing and auditing your procedures before a burglary, catastrophe or a lawsuit occurs. Your speaker knows firsthand what to look for to eliminate these problems, from the most serious to the not so common, but potentially costly mistakes. This Course will help you review your own internal compliance and operating procedures.
Specific Take-aways:
- Identify many mistakes that will create liability.
- Many compliance and due diligence steps to consider.
- Current litigation examples and videos will be provided.
- How to avoid costly mistakes and avoid significant lawsuits.
Bonus Material:
- Current safe deposit news articles and videos.
- Final exam to test and review your compliance knowledge.
- Provide Sate Deposit Report Card to audit your procedures.
- Website location with over 80 valuable safe deposit box resources.
*This program does NOT qualify, nor meet the National Standard for NASBA accreditation.
Topics Covered in This Course
Who Should Attend
Your Instructor
David McGuinn, President of Safe Deposit Specialists, is a former banker with over 45 years of safe deposit experience. He is often referred to nationwide as the safe deposit GURU. In all 50 states he has trained over 350,000 safe deposit managers and personnel since 1969, and has served as President of the American Institute of Banking and the American, Texas and Houston Safe Deposit Associations. All four organizations have presented him with their President's Award for his dedication to the financial industry.Dave is a featured speaker for the American Bankers Association and the National Association of Federal Credit Union's TV network and has been interviewed by the Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Money Watch, Bottom Line Financial, Washington Post, New York Magazine, Associated Press, Money Magazine, AARP, National Public Radio, CUNA, FDIC, Court TV, CNN, CBS, ABC and NBC Nightly News on current safe deposit issues.McGuinn has created numerous safe deposit operations, marketing, audit, security, disaster and compliance manuals, brochures, forms, training videos and Internet/audio training programs. His safe deposit products and training seminars are now recognized as the recommended standard for the financial industry. All of his safe deposit resource items can be reviewed at www.sdspec.com.
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