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.
Account-centric enterprise content management solutions allow users to access account holder information based on their account numbers.
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.
API is short for “application programming interface.” Technology companies like Alogent rely on APIs to connect multiple software applications, thereby enabling a two-way exchange of information to support users’ needs.
Audit and exam prep is a process that financial institutions go through in order to adequately prepare for upcoming audits and exams.
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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