Similar to identity theft, this type of fraud happens when an unauthorized individual gain access through online banking applications, capturing the account information to create and write bad checks.
An adverse action notice is a document sent to a loan applicant stating a bank’s rationale for denying a loan. It may also contain a counteroffer, such as a lesser amount or a request for an approved co-borrower.
The term “aging exceptions” refers to a group of critical exceptions that have not been resolved within a reasonable amount of time.
Altered check fraud occurs when a fraudster changes the amounts and Payee from a stolen check.
An authorized signer form is a document that allows an account holder to grant a range of clearance levels to individuals to perform certain functions within a bank account.

Cold Storage in Banking

Cold storage in banking provides a snapshot of each day’s activity at a financial institution. Cold storage houses a variety of reports, statements, notices, and images generated by a core banking system as part of its nightly processing. Documents and information that are commonly held in cold storage include:

  • Trial balances
  • Daily non-posts
  • Return check items
  • New loan reports
  • New account reports
  • Closed reports
  • Pay-off reports
  • Non-accrual reports
  • Images of cashed checks
  • Images of deposits
  • Teller transactions
  • Checking statements
  • Loan statements
  • Employee logins to dormant accounts

Uses for Cold Storage in Banking

Typically, cold storage is tightly integrated with a financial institution’s core banking system. Platforms like FASTdocs offers an archival, searchable system of record and is used by bankers in numerous ways, such as:

  • Image retrieval for frontline operations: Tellers and other deposit staff members can find and view processed check images to answer customer and member inquiries.
  • Text matching and search: Bankers can use cold storage systems to find text within reports based on specific search criteria.
  • Offline server mode: If a financial institution’s system goes down and tellers cannot access the core, “cold storage” provides a trial balance (usually as of the previous night) to approximate a customer or member’s account balance.

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