If you read the first CFPB enforcement action carefully, it's clear what is being targeted: sales and marketing practices. Now is a great time to learn from others' mistakes, even if you're not a big bank subject to the Bureau's oversight.
With everything happening in the financial services industry, now more than ever it's important that your advertising and marketing efforts are effective. Moreover, regulator and examiner attention to your advertising and marketing efforts is at an all-time high. Advertising is being looked at in different ways than before.
There are standards to observe, especially when it comes to UDAAP (Unfair, Deceptive, or Abusive Acts or Practices). This is a seismic shift in regulatory enforcement, where practices that were perfectly acceptable in years past are now problematic. In the rush to attract new business and keep the clients you have, compliance requirements can easily be missed or ignored.
What can you say in advertisements? What must you say? What can you not say? Many sets of rules govern these questions, and more are on the way. How about your promotional efforts - contacting prospects and customers to let them know what you have available?
As the compliance environment becomes more complex, your marketing department must stay on top of all the rules and regulations. This session can help.
Topics Will Include:
- What impact does the CFPB have on advertising and marketing, even if you're not a big bank?
- Regulatory Focus: Attention to unfair, deceptive, and abusive acts and practices (UDAAP). Plus - what may be considered abusive? How can you stay clear of trouble? Don't miss the forest for the trees.
- Advertising rules under Reg. Z for both mortgage loans and open-end plans from the Credit CARD Act
- UDAP standards from the FTC on mortgage loans
- Consumer deposit products in Truth in Savings
- Rules for consumer loan products in Regulation Z
- Fair lending when marketing lending products
- "Equal Housing Lender" statement and the logo - when must these be used?
- Advertising over the Internet and social media - different standards?
- Soliciting via the phone and e-mail: the Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR), including caller ID requirements, Junk Fax, and CAN-SPAM
- Privacy implications - sharing information under Privacy regulations and FCRA
- Testimonials - FTC standards
- Promotions - drawings, giveaways, bonuses, etc.
- Tax implications, and what not to say when talking about tax breaks
This webinar is a breakout session from the Core Compliance Suite. A subscription to the Core Compliance Suite (CCS) includes a quarterly, two-hour webinar focused on the most recent changes to the compliance landscape as well as access to six core compliance webinars presented by Carl Pry which are essential to your annual compliance training. For more information on theCore Compliance Suite visit ttsComplianceSuite.com. You can email questions to info@ttsTrain.com or talk with a representative by calling 1-800-831-0678.
Who Should Attend?
Anyone involved in developing and marketing your institution's products and services, including the marketing department, compliance officers, auditors, business managers, sales and service staff, and anyone else whose duties involve promotion.
Instructor
Carl Pry is a Certified Regulatory Compliance Manager (CRCM) and Certified Risk Professional (CRP) who is a Managing Director for Treliant Risk Advisors in Washington, DC. Through his working career, as well as through his experience as a banking attorney and officer, he has provided a variety of regulatory compliance and financial performance services to financial institutions and other clients throughout the country.
He has written extensively regarding consumer and commercial compliance, tax, audit, and financial institution legal issues, and is a frequent contributor to and currently serves on the Editorial Advisory Board for the ABA Bank Compliance magazine. He has spoken at scores of banking, compliance, and state bar associations, and has conducted training sessions for financial institutions across the country.