Barry Thompson
"THE FRAUD EDUCATOR"
Barry Thompson C.R.C.M. has worked in the financial services industry for over three decades, holding the positions of security officer, compliance officer, treasurer, senior vice president, and executive vice president. He is the only fraud educator in his industry that has worked in senior management positions, which affords him unique insight into financial institutions.
During his career, Thompson has 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.
In this position, he organized national conferences. And as a security specialist for America's Community Bankers (2000-2008), Thompson has been involved in all phases of organizing the "national operations, technology and security conference," including designing and overseeing the conference's security track, hiring conference speakers, and writing the conference manual. Today he works with the Independent Community Bankers Association preparing and teaching their Security School along with the Fraud Workshop for national audiences.
Barry is also an internationally recognized speaker who has appeared at many financial industry conferences. He has made presentations on communications, leadership, compliance, and financial institution security. Among these were: a presentation in Brussels to European bankers on internal fraud, at the United Nations on identity theft, and to Japanese bankers on bank security.
Recognizing the increasing importance of compliance in the banking industry, he became a "certified regulatory compliance manager" in 1997.
Barry has attended prestigious schools held by the American Bankers Association and America's Community Bankers. Among them are the national trust school, held at Northwestern University in 1999; the national compliance school, held at the University of Oklahoma in 1997 and Emory University in 2006; and the investment school at Fairfield University in 1993.
He has put his knowledge and expertise to use as an instructor for both the Credit Union National Association's security institute (2000-2008, 2011), and for Vanderbilt University's "SouthEastern School of Banking" held by the Tennessee Bankers Association (2005-present). Barry is also a writer who contributes to Bankers' Hotline, bankersonline.com and other industry publications. He is the security and compliance "guru" for bankersonline.com, and Newsweek, Computer World and other national and regional publications have interviewed him. Barry's professional and educational background, along with his Certified Regulatory Compliance Manager designation, provide him with a depth of experience that very few in the financial services industry can match.
Today, his firm focuses primarily on training at national and state conventions, and in-house to banks and credit unions, from physical security to computer security. This includes in-depth instruction on identity theft, internal fraud, scams and schemes, conducting investigations, social media and bank robbery. Barry has taught for almost every states banking and credit union associations in the United States making him a leader in the financail institutioin industry.
To date, he has trained more than 42,000 financial professionals—and growing.
"THE FRAUD EDUCATOR"
Barry Thompson C.R.C.M. has worked in the financial services industry for over three decades, holding the positions of security officer, compliance officer, treasurer, senior vice president, and executive vice president. He is the only fraud educator in his industry that has worked in senior management positions, which affords him unique insight into financial institutions.
During his career, Thompson has 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.
In this position, he organized national conferences. And as a security specialist for America's Community Bankers (2000-2008), Thompson has been involved in all phases of organizing the "national operations, technology and security conference," including designing and overseeing the conference's security track, hiring conference speakers, and writing the conference manual. Today he works with the Independent Community Bankers Association preparing and teaching their Security School along with the Fraud Workshop for national audiences.
Barry is also an internationally recognized speaker who has appeared at many financial industry conferences. He has made presentations on communications, leadership, compliance, and financial institution security. Among these were: a presentation in Brussels to European bankers on internal fraud, at the United Nations on identity theft, and to Japanese bankers on bank security.
Recognizing the increasing importance of compliance in the banking industry, he became a "certified regulatory compliance manager" in 1997.
Barry has attended prestigious schools held by the American Bankers Association and America's Community Bankers. Among them are the national trust school, held at Northwestern University in 1999; the national compliance school, held at the University of Oklahoma in 1997 and Emory University in 2006; and the investment school at Fairfield University in 1993.
He has put his knowledge and expertise to use as an instructor for both the Credit Union National Association's security institute (2000-2008, 2011), and for Vanderbilt University's "SouthEastern School of Banking" held by the Tennessee Bankers Association (2005-present). Barry is also a writer who contributes to Bankers' Hotline, bankersonline.com and other industry publications. He is the security and compliance "guru" for bankersonline.com, and Newsweek, Computer World and other national and regional publications have interviewed him. Barry's professional and educational background, along with his Certified Regulatory Compliance Manager designation, provide him with a depth of experience that very few in the financial services industry can match.
Today, his firm focuses primarily on training at national and state conventions, and in-house to banks and credit unions, from physical security to computer security. This includes in-depth instruction on identity theft, internal fraud, scams and schemes, conducting investigations, social media and bank robbery. Barry has taught for almost every states banking and credit union associations in the United States making him a leader in the financail institutioin industry.
To date, he has trained more than 42,000 financial professionals—and growing.
