BSA

Many compliance teams rely on recorded walkthroughs to train staff on BSA obligations — covering topics like customer due diligence, suspicious activity report (SAR) filing, and currency transaction report (CTR) thresholds. These videos work well for onboarding, but they create a real gap when auditors or regulators ask your team to demonstrate that documented procedures exist and are being followed consistently.

The core problem is that a video is difficult to audit. If a BSA examiner requests evidence of your institution's written procedures for monitoring high-risk accounts, pointing them to a recorded screen share does not satisfy that requirement. Staff also cannot quickly search a video to confirm a specific step — such as the exact threshold that triggers a CTR filing — when they need a fast answer during a live transaction review.

Converting those existing BSA training videos into formal, versioned SOPs gives your team a searchable, referenceable document that aligns with what examiners expect to see. For example, a video walkthrough of your SAR escalation process can become a step-by-step procedure with clearly defined roles, decision points, and review dates — the kind of structured documentation that holds up under scrutiny.

If your compliance library still lives primarily in video form, see how the video-to-SOP workflow can help close that gap.