Certification: Certified Fraud Specialist (CFS)
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With most financial institutions experiencing higher rates of fraud coming across all customer contact channels, there is no better time than now for all banking and credit union professionals to learn or refresh on these fraud activities.
This on-demand Certification will provide you with actionable insights you can take to mitigate fraud activities and protect both their institution and their customers' resources.
As with all of our on-demand Certification programs, your certificate of completion will be valid for two full years and is evidence of having successfully finished this timely and critical core activities. Each course is between 50 and 70 minutes.
Courses Included in This Certification
Your Instructors

Kelly Rozier has extensive banking experience; specializing is Electronic Payments and fraud.
Ms. Rozier advises both financial institutions and their service providers on payments audits, process improvement, and risk management. She provides expertise in ACH, Wire Transfer, Remote Deposit Capture (RDC), and other payment systems, including audits of third-party senders and service providers. She works closely with banking professionals, , risk managers, compliance officers, and operations teams in the context of payments compliance, process optimization, financial risk management, and regulatory education. Additionally, Kelly collaborates with the Simplify Risk–Secura membership program to deliver education and resources tailored to banks, fintech companies and credit unions
Prior to joining Stout, Kelly was responsible for the payment’s governance including treasury services and oversight for an $18 billion in assets financial institution. Kelly has a significant amount of experience working on the financial institution side and working with all the major core providers on electronic payments needs based on external fraud threats, network and regulatory requirements. Kelly also has ten years of experience working directly with the BSA/AML and fraud areas specific to electronic payments fraud and incident response.

Throughout her career, Terri has served as a leader in the payments and fraud prevention industry, providing education, risk management and compliance consulting and support services geared toward the specific needs of financial organizations.
Terri is an Advanced Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist, an At-Risk Adult Crime Specialist and an Accredited ACH Professional. Prior to founding Secura, Terri served as co-founder of Payments Information Circle (PIC), a service organization providing payments industry education, auditing, consulting, resources, and support services to financial organizations throughout the country. Prior to her work at PIC, Terri also served as the President of GACHA, a non-profit, regional payments association where she provided strategic direction for financial institutions in the payments industry. Terri began her career in payments as a Senior Analyst with the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta where she provided training throughout the Sixth District and served on the Federal Reserve ACH Conversion Team that consolidated ACH Services for all branch locations in the Sixth District.

William ("Pat") Huttenbach is a litigation attorney concentrating on civil maters at Crain, Caton & James, P.C. He has been asked to be an expert witness on issues concerning UCC sections 3, 4, and 4A. He has answered over 210 lawsuits involving UCC sections 3, 4, and/or 4A issue. He has also personally answered over 2,000 garnishment lawsuits. Pat has many training sessions for banks to try and protect. banks from fraud losses. Pat has written numerous articles on banking topics and has given speeches to the banking industry on how to better protect banks in litigation through updated deposit agreements. Pat also routinely handles many other types of lawsuits against banks including lender liability claims, FCRA claims, FDCPA claims, Texas Financial Code claims, tortious interference claims, insurance claim litigation, fidelity and surety insurance coverage, DTPA claims, injunctions, employment law, landlord-tenant disputes, probate matters, property disputes, real estate tax litigation, breach of contract, business torts, construction law disputes, defamation, libel and slander, and other general business matters.
CPE & Accreditation
This course qualifies for 12.5 CPE/ NASBA, 8.9 Nacha CECs (AAP/APRP). Your certificate and transcript are available immediately upon completion.
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Nacha (National Automated Clearing House Association) -AAP/APRP
Nacha has approved this course as eligible for AAP or APRP Renewal Credit(s).
Requesting CE:
Upon completion of this course, please email
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to obtain a CE certificate.
CPE/NASBA - QAS Self Study
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Please note: You must attend at least 50 minutes to obtain credit. Final CPE approval belongs with each state's regulatory board. Credit is based on a 50-minute credit hour.
For more detailed information about the course, including the outline, content, and objectives, please refer to the 'Description' tab on this webpage.
Field Of Study: Specialized Knowledge
Prerequisite: Basic knowledge of the banking industry, business, or law
Level of Knowledge: Intermediate
Advanced Preparation: None
Delivery Method: QAS Self Study
Requesting CE:
Upon completion of this course, please email
creditrequest@nogginguru.com
to obtain a CE certificate.
