What is VCM?
VCM is an outsourced compliance management solution that delivers expert support and allows you to reduce your bank’s risk and expenses.
Through our VCM program, we provide short-term or temporary help and solutions to specific compliance management and support challenges you face. We also offer full or partnered management of your CMS.
For more than a decade, we’ve provided VCM solutions for countless banks with unique requirements.
When you’re a VCM client, we assign an experienced, qualified compliance professional to work with you and your team. That person also serves as your liaison, connecting you to all of TCA’s compliance professionals and subject matter experts.
Visits can be either onsite or offsite or in a combination that fits your needs. We can adapt quickly to overcome unanticipated obstacles, whether they stem from changes within your bank or the world at large.
VCM helps you reduce risk and delivers A Better Way to manage your compliance challenges quickly and affordably.
Key Deliverables Include:
- Support to develop, implement, and manage an effective CMS
- Keep management and staff abreast of critical regulatory changes
- Immediate advice on critical issues through your assigned VCM
- Monthly meetings to discuss ongoing compliance concerns, address action items, establish next steps
Want to learn more?
Please send an email to [email protected] or call 800-934-REGS for more information.
Compliance Insights
Identifying Higher Risk Customers using Keyword Searches
Financial institutions are facing increased regulatory pressure on Customer Due Diligence (CDD) and Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) procedures, particularly regarding inherently higher-risk customer types. CDD is critical to identifying and monitoring customers involved in higher-risk activities. Identification of higher-risk customers starts at account opening and your account opening procedures should incorporate this due diligence. Some …
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Regulatory Updates – First Quarter 2022
Below is a link to the Regulatory Updates as of the end of Q1. TCA provides A Better Way for you to track Compliance updates and keep your organization on track. You can download the updates in a PDF form here. As always, TCA is here to help with A Better Way to answer all …
CFPB’s UDAAP Is Seriously Looking for Illegal Discrimination Practices
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced on March 16, 2022, the added scrutiny of illegal discriminatory practices within its examination procedures for Unfair, Deceptive, Abusive Acts and Practices (UDAAP). The CFPB considers that illegal discrimination practices based on services or products can cause consumer harm; therefore, UDAAP should be included with the other Fair …
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Regulatory Updates – 2021
It’s challenging for every Compliance professional to stay on top of the small and big changes to existing and new regulatory requirements. As you partner in compliance, we are introducing a new feature to our Regulatory Compliance Manager (RCM) Service – Quarterly Regulatory Updates. This is A Better Way for you to keep track of …
When the Tide is Against You
Over the past several months, the banking industry has experienced tremendous loan origination volume. While increased loan production is a good thing, it is important for Compliance Managers to stay cognizant of rising risks. Pressure, whether from peers or self-imposed, to push loans through leads to a breakdown in controls that are caused from procedural …
The Great Debate — Is This a Finance Charge?
If only there was a simple answer! Unfortunately, this seemingly simple question can be endlessly debated due to the complexity of Regulation Z. §1026.4(a) states that a finance charge is the cost of consumer credit as a dollar amount. It includes any charge payable directly or indirectly by the consumer and imposed directly or indirectly …
