WEBINAR: High-Risk Customer Monitoring: Beyond Cannabis
While cannabis banking often grabs headlines, BSA Officers must manage many other high-risk customers — including MSBs, Fintechs, cash-intensive businesses, and international accounts.
Webinar
Live broadcast, with playback recording available without expiration
Just $149 for registration
Tuesday, May 5, 2026
1:00 pm ET, 10:00 am PT
Description
While cannabis banking often grabs headlines, BSA Officers must manage many other high-risk customers — including MSBs, Fintechs, cash-intensive businesses, and international accounts. This webinar outlines how to identify, assess, and monitor these customers effectively.
Participants will gain insights into developing a risk-based approach that prioritizes resources where they are needed most, while keeping examiners confident in your risk management program.
Key Takeaways:
Define “high-risk” across multiple industries and customers.
Establish ongoing monitoring protocols tailored by risk.
Leverage transaction monitoring systems for efficiency.
Document enhanced due diligence (EDD) consistently.
Communicate risk decisions effectively to examiners.
Instructor(s)
Erin O'Donnell
Co-Founder- American Cannabis Bankers Association
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Erin O'Donnell, Founding Partner of the American Cannabis Bankers Association, Co-Founder of BankersHub and Co-Founder and former CEO of Bankerstuff oversees product innovation and education. She has over 30 years of experience in strategic event management, specializing in technology and online delivery of content.
Michael Beird
VP, Treasury Management - Southwest Capital Bank
Founding Partner - ACB
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Michael Beird is the Vice President of Treasury Management for Southwest Capital Bank, a canna-friendly institution in New Mexico. Michael also co-founded the ACB after spending over a decade building BankersHub, the leading online education platform in financial services, in order to bring nationally renowned speakers to smaller financial institutions, community banks and credit unions through webinars, on-demand certifications and live-streaming from conferences and conventions. BankersHub launched the industry's first Cannabis Banking Professional certification in 2020 and is now leading the effort to bridge education and compliance between these two heavily regulated industries with his co-authoring the recent Wiley book, "Cannabis Banking: Legal Frameworks and Practical Solutions for Cultivating Compliance"