Welcome to BAI L&D Connect®
BAI exists to give financial services leaders the confidence to make smart business decisions, every day. We are passionate about our mission and believe that a strong financial services industry helps consumers, businesses, and communities thrive. BAI L&D Connect was designed to provide all of the resources you might need including:
May Announcements
An exciting update to the “My Dashboard” page in the BAI Learning Manager was just released, providing numerous benefits to users. Check out and share the student demo video below!
End-To-End Policy Solution
The BAI Policy Manager helps financial services organizations make informed decisions when creating, updating, communicating, and tracking their organizational policies and procedures. It provides:
- Industry-specific regulatory resources to help you make informed decisions when creating and updating your policies
- Easy setup to help you get up and running quickly
- Focused processes, so you’re ready for your next examination
- Powerful communication tools to build a culture of compliance
Industry-specific regulatory resources
BAI provides compliance professionals with industry-specific actionable content that helps them make informed decisions during the policy management process, including:
- Regulatory Alerts (CFPB changes, FDIC updates, NCUA rules, etc.)
- Policy Considerations
- Policy Templates
- Regulation Overviews
Help you get up and running quickly
Quick Setup and Easy Administration. The BAI Policy Manager is designed to provide for a quick setup and easy administration, saving your compliance professionals significant time. BAI’s solution includes:
- Bulk import of existing policy documents
- Industry-specific table of contents
- Bulk import of users
- A human resources information system (HRIS) data exchange
- Configurable and reusable workflows
- Single sign-on (SSO)
So you’re ready for your next examination
Timely Updates and Acknowledgements. In the financial services industry, updating policies on time and having those policies acknowledged in a timely manner are crucial. The BAI Policy Manager includes many features designed with this understanding. BAI’s solution includes:
- Compliance professional and manager dashboards
- Report subscriptions
- Reminder emails
- User dashboards
- Audit reports
Cybersecurity remains a top-of-mind concern in the financial services industry. BAI is excited to be launching new Cyber Scenarios that address these risks and help organizations and their employees prevent and mitigate attacks. In these 10 to 15-minute story-based, interactive courses, learners face a relevant cybersecurity threat scenario in a financial institution and decide how they would proceed at key decision points.
90 Day Regulatory Outlook
Prepare for various pending regulatory changes
Published the beginning of each month, BAI’s 90-Day Regulatory Outlook helps you plan for the compliance landscape in the upcoming fiscal quarter. Receive insights from BAI’s compliance experts on which policies and training courses of yours will be impacted by the most recent and relevant regulatory changes.
Regulatory Alerts
Keep track of all regulatory changes, regardless of stage
Receive the latest Financial Services industry compliance news every week, including summaries of relevant announcements from more than 20 different regulatory bodies and overviews of personnel and products affected. Focusing on the changes that may impact your training and policy management programs our service covers various agencies.
Risk Alerts
Keep track of the latest risks, proposals, standards, resources and events your organization should know about
Risk Alerts provides the latest risk guidance, best practices, upcoming webinars, resources, and information related to organizations in the financial services industry. Receive weekly updates, with a summary of only the most relevant announcements from almost 30 organizations, including regulators, standard-setting agencies, and third-party experts.
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Industry News
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Defines Abusive Acts
On April 3, 2023, the Consumer Protection Financial Bureau (CFPB) issued a policy statement to summarize how it defines and analyzes the elements of abusive acts and provides relevant examples. There are two abusiveness prohibitions. An abusive act or practice: (1) Materially interferes with the ability of a consumer to understand a term or condition of a consumer financial product or service; or (2) Takes unreasonable advantage of: A lack of understanding on the part of the consumer of the material risks, costs, or conditions of the product or service; The inability of the consumer to protect the interests [...]
Section 1033 Proposal, Personal Financial Data Rights
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (the Bureau) is currently writing regulations to implement section 1033 of the Dodd-Frank Act (DFA). The proposed rules would require a covered entity to make available transaction data and other information concerning a consumer financial product or service obtained from a covered entity to a consumer or to a third party (agent, trustee, or representative acting on behalf of a consumer), at the consumer’s request. It also requires the Bureau to develop standards for the development and use of standardized formats for information made available to consumers. It enables consumers to allow consumers to [...]
After the Bank Failures, What’s Next?
In less than three months, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), Signature Bank, and First Republic Bank collapsed due to liquidity and interest rate risk issues. The total assets of these three institutions were $548.5 billion, surpassing the total assets of all bank failures in 2008 by almost $200 billion. Aggressive increases in the federal funds rate led to decreased values in long term bond and mortgage-backed securities and lowered the institutions’ ability to meet customer demand for cash during large simultaneous bank runs. Other institutions with large amounts of uninsured deposit balances could have similar risks. The Federal Reserve and [...]
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If you have any compliance questions or challenges, we have experts on hand to provide you with direct feedback. Please submit your questions to [email protected] and our experts will deliver compliance support straight to your inbox.
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