Security Officer Workshop - Louisville

If you are not a KBA member, please contact Jamie Hampton at jhampton@kybanks.com or 502-736-1278 for the possibility of attending at a non-member rate.
Seminar 9 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. local time. Registration and breakfast begins after 8:30 a.m.

We've expanded our security seminar per your request to a two-day program!

The 15 Worst Security Mistakes

There are hundreds of ways to make critical security mistakes within a financial institution—and there’s little time to deal with the aftermath created by those mistakes. This session identifies the 15 worst security mistakes that consultants find financial institutions making and how to correct them. The mistakes and remedies presented are drawn from Thompson Consulting Group’s extensive experience consulting and training financial institutions across the country.

Cash Recyclers, Pod Banking & ITMs

Banking as we’ve known it is rapidly changing. Apps, pod banking, cash recyclers, interactive teller machines, and other new technologies are affecting how we do business and offering new challenges to security. This fast-moving presentation embraces these new changes by explaining how we can implement them to make them valuable and profitable to the financial institution, while maintaining effective security protocols. This presentation isn't based upon theory. It's a real-life, real-time program relating to issues that may contribute to an institution's losses.

Internal Fraud: The Warning Signs

This program has it all. Breakout sessions, open discussion, thought provoking details and a deep dive into a high-profile investigative situation. What steps need to be taken? What is important? Learn how to take control of the situation, gather the important evidence, ask the right questions, and properly document your actions.

Robbery Awareness: Back Office Responsibilities

The person most likely to stumble upon a robbery in progress will be a back office staff member. This program is designed specifically for back office personnel who have little interest in teller training for a robbery situation. Attendees will learn situations to avoid, how to handle a robbery they accidentally observe, and gain new understanding on how to view the physical surroundings they work in daily.

DAY TWO

15 Errors to Avoid When Conducting Internal Investigation

Internal fraud can cost financial institutions unrecoverable money and time. When the embezzler hasn’t been identified, emotions run high! Investigations launched in panic with the wrong leaders may cause unexpected complications. This eye-opening presentation will explain what not to do. Staff who have not been trained on internal embezzlement may cause flawed investigations, harassment charges, and unsolved losses. This program will explain 15 errors that can result in a failed investigation. Awareness of these pitfalls will enable your institution to establish an action plan that will protect you when the unthinkable happens.

Conducting a Physical Security Review and Risk Assessment

This information packed program will provide you with a recipe on how to conduct your annual security review. No longer can you just use a checklist to determine if your financial institution is safe. We will instruct you on how to think like a criminal to protect your assets, information, and people. Today, the criminal world attacks your institution via computer, customers, and social engineering ploys. Your annual review should find or correct problems with physical security, robbery procedures, and staff training.

Interviewing and Confessions

This session will examine the traits and process of conducting an effective and positive interview. The goal in conducting a successful interview is the ability to determine the truthfulness of a subject. The art and science of interviewing techniques are an extremely valuable tool in conducting an investigation. The goal in performing a positive interview is to support and ultimately gain a confession from the party responsible for the incident.

This session will discuss and explore the use in observing the Body Languages and responses from a subject to gage the truthfulness or deception in their responses.

Board Reporting: The Security Perspective

Regulations specify that the Security Officer must report to the board annually and that the implementation, administration, and effectiveness of the security program be addressed. What exactly the Security Officer should report to the board is not clearly identified in the regulations. This interactive session will review best practices relating to training, inspections, and foreseeable events that should be reported to your board.

When
6/20/2023 - 6/21/2023
Where
Indiana Wesleyan University 1500 Alliant Avenue Louisville, KY
 

About the Speaker(s)

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Arvin Clar
Arvin Clar
Thompson Consulting Group, LLC

Arvin Clar is a nationally known seminar speaker, as well as college-level instructor, in security, police operations, and economic crime. He has been a speaker for many organizations, corporations, and trade groups, and has conducted security evaluations and assessments of financial institutions throughout the United States. His 35 years of experience in the fields of risk assessment and analysis in the financial services industry and premises security and safety issues includes: evaluating the level of appropriate safety and security, professional investigation services, violent criminal acts, security survey and analysis, accident investigation, the investigation of fraud and financial crime, and the design of security systems for financial institutions.

Prior to joining Thompson Consulting Group, Arvin served with the Cleveland Police Department for over 29 years, where he served as a detective in the Financial Crimes Unit. Arvin was responsible for the investigations of thousands of financial crime cases and prepared and presented these cases for state and federal prosecution.

Arvin serves as Adjunct Faculty at Cuyahoga Community College, in the College of Criminal Justice, where he has been an instructor for over 35 years, lecturing on courses of Criminal Justice, Criminology, and Criminal Investigation. He also served as an Assistant Vice President for Charter One Bank, where he served as the Bank Protection Coordinator for over 17 years, overseeing the safety and investigation of fraud issues of 750 banking branches throughout five states.

Mr. Clar has been published in several national magazines regarding security, fraud, and investigations. He has authored training programs for bank robbery and identity theft and has been a featured guest on National Public Radio.
Arvin Clar
Arvin Clar
Thompson Consulting Group, LLC
Arvin Clar is a nationally known seminar speaker, as well as college-level instructor, in security, police operations, and economic crime. He has been a speaker for many organizations, corporations, and trade groups, and has conducted security evaluations and assessments of financial institutions throughout the United States. His 35 years of experience in the fields of risk assessment and analysis in the financial services industry and premises security and safety issues includes: evaluating the level of appropriate safety and security, professional investigation services, violent criminal acts, security survey and analysis, accident investigation, the investigation of fraud and financial crime, and the design of security systems for financial institutions.

Prior to joining Thompson Consulting Group, Arvin served with the Cleveland Police Department for over 29 years, where he served as a detective in the Financial Crimes Unit. Arvin was responsible for the investigations of thousands of financial crime cases and prepared and presented these cases for state and federal prosecution.

Arvin serves as Adjunct Faculty at Cuyahoga Community College, in the College of Criminal Justice, where he has been an instructor for over 35 years, lecturing on courses of Criminal Justice, Criminology, and Criminal Investigation. He also served as an Assistant Vice President for Charter One Bank, where he served as the Bank Protection Coordinator for over 17 years, overseeing the safety and investigation of fraud issues of 750 banking branches throughout five states.

Mr. Clar has been published in several national magazines regarding security, fraud, and investigations. He has authored training programs for bank robbery and identity theft and has been a featured guest on National Public Radio. 		CLAR, ARVIN
Mr. Barry Thompson
Mr. Barry Thompson
Thompson Consulting Group, LLC

Barry Thompson is a nationally-recognized speaker, consultant, and former banker, with nearly 40 years of service to the financial institution industry. Barry’s financial services career spanned 22 years before he “retired” to establish Thompson Consulting Group, LLC, his consulting firm that assists financial institutions in competing more effectively by providing services specifically targeted to risk management and security. During his career, he served as executive vice president, senior vice president, treasurer, compliance officer, and security officer. Barry has investigated embezzlement cases, identity fraud cases, check kites, and almost all possible criminal incidents against financial institutions. As a security officer, Barry handled over 900 security cases. He has been involved with investigations and prosecutions on the federal, state, and local levels and has testified before grand juries, county courts, bankruptcy courts, family courts, and the New York State Supreme Court. As a professional speaker, few can match his expertise when it comes to discussing the financial services industry. His programs are based on actual experiences that allow him to relate to any group of financial professionals, from the teller to the board of directors. He has made presentations on communications, organizational behavior and management, compliance, and security. He appears frequently before financial institutions and at industry conferences.
Mr. Barry Thompson
Mr. Barry Thompson
Thompson Consulting Group, LLC
Barry Thompson is a nationally-recognized speaker, consultant, and former banker, with nearly 40 years of service to the financial institution industry. Barry’s financial services career spanned 22 years before he “retired” to establish Thompson Consulting Group, LLC, his consulting firm that assists financial institutions in competing more effectively by providing services specifically targeted to risk management and security. During his career, he served as executive vice president, senior vice president, treasurer, compliance officer, and security officer. Barry has investigated embezzlement cases, identity fraud cases, check kites, and almost all possible criminal incidents against financial institutions. As a security officer, Barry handled over 900 security cases. He has been involved with investigations and prosecutions on the federal, state, and local levels and has testified before grand juries, county courts, bankruptcy courts, family courts, and the New York State Supreme Court. As a professional speaker, few can match his expertise when it comes to discussing the financial services industry. His programs are based on actual experiences that allow him to relate to any group of financial professionals, from the teller to the board of directors. He has made presentations on communications, organizational behavior and management, compliance, and security. He appears frequently before financial institutions and at industry conferences. THOMPSON, BARRY

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