Barry Thompson

CRCM

Barry Thomspon, Certified Regulatory Compliance Manager, is the author of 101 Security Tips for the Beginning Security Officer and is known as “The Fraud Educator.” He 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 this industry that has worked in senior management positions, which affords him unique insight into financial institutions. During his career, Barry 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. As a security specialist for America’s Community Bankers (2000-2008), Barry 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. Barry is an in-demand, internationally recognized speaker where he has made fraud, theft and security presentations to groups in Brussels, at the United Nations, and to Japanese bankers in Washington, DC. 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- Present), and for the Tennessee Bankers Association’s “Southeastern School of Banking” (2005-present). Barry is also a writer who contributes to Bankers’ Hotline, BankersOnline and other industry publications. He is a security and compliance guru for BankersOnline as well as a member of the advisory board for Bankers’ Hotline. As a result of Barry’s knowledge and expertise about financial fraud and identity theft, he has been interviewed by Newsweek, Consumer Reports and other national and regional publications. Barry’s professional and educational background along with his Certified Regulatory Compliance manager designation provides 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, on topics from physical security to computer security. This includes in-depth instruction on identity theft, internal fraud, scams and schemes, conducting investigations, and social media and bank robbery. To date, he has trained more than 26,000 financial professionals – and growing.