In a sector where every transaction and interaction must exude trust and stability, banking institutions grapple with challenges that could strike at the core of their operations.
Pinkerton offers proactive financial institution risk management services, expertly crafted to fortify banking sectors against current threats and future uncertainties. We are more than Banking Security Services— we build resilience, safeguard well-being, and manage emergencies with precision and care. When you partner with us, you can focus on what you do best, reassured by the protection and support of online banking security service, that lets your organization, team, and clientele thrive in a secure environment.
Challenges
- Safety and Security
- Threat of Violence
- Robbery and Theft
- Vandalism
- Property damage
- Unauthorized Access
- Natural Disasters
- Protests and Civil Unrest
- Physical Surveillance
Partnering with Pinkerton helps you understand your organization’s unique culture and vulnerabilities, enabling you to shift your banking security approach from reactive to proactive and addressing duty of care, threats of violence, and physical site gaps and vulnerabilities.
Benefits to your organization
Emergency and Banking Crisis Management
- Thwart immediate threats with rapid response, securing your assets and staff.
- Establish rapid emergency response for situations like active threats or natural disasters.
- Deploy evidence-based banking institution crisis response strategies for a multitude of scenarios.
- Swiftly rebound from disruptions like power outages or natural events, minimizing operational downtime and financial impacts.
Financial Risk Management and Compliance
- Comply with the more than 32 government, industry, and organization regulations and standards that impact banks and banking institutions, such as the Bank Secrecy Act, Consumer Financial Protection Act, and the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
- Design a comprehensive workplace violence prevention program.
- Protect your brand by identifying and mitigating risks associated with in-bank incidents.
- Policy and procedure reviews to protect against information breaches and enhance incident response.
- Deep dive into the organization’s security operating procedures and streamline security protocols.
- Customized security audits to harmonize banking locations with established security protocols.
- Plan for business continuity with insights into local, criminal, economic, and environmental risks.
Fraud Prevention and Investigations
- Conduct due diligence and SCOUT business reports to support your third-party risk assessments (M&A, IPO, vendors, board members, C-suite).
- Prepare SCOUT investigative reports to address internal or external fraud incidents (loans, checks, credit cards, identity theft, money laundering, financial misrepresentation).
- Perform thorough asset searches and support their recovery.
- Support your whistleblower program; streamline and improve your organization’s process for managing allegations of wrongdoing.
Legal and Dispute Resolution Support
- Collect and manage evidence for litigation and dispute resolution support.
- Deliver computer forensics, e-Discovery, and forensic accounting.
- Embed legal experts and investigative professionals into your litigation teams of internal and external lawyers, as well as into your teams of third-party consultants and experts.
Location Security and Safety Analysis
- Assess on-site physical and electronic safeguards.
- Make strategic decisions based on reliable crime data from the Pinkerton Crime Index and Pinkerton Risk Pulse.
- Employ location-based risk data for strategic decisions on property and investments.
- Benchmark locations by evaluating the pattern of crime trends.
- Allocate security resources aligned to your needs and budget.
Program Design and Execution
- Risk Governance: Regular assessments and trend analysis of facilities and operations to identify and prioritize compliance risks, offering mitigation strategies and benchmarking for optimized, long-term security.
- Travel security: Integrated travel security solution combining protection, cutting-edge technology, and customized reporting, covering pre-trip intelligence to in-transit safety for corporate travelers.
- Pinkerton Executive Services: Strategic, tailored security solutions for High Net Worth Individuals (HNWIs) and executives, including embedded protective details, ongoing threat evaluations, risk management, and swift emergency response services.
- Threat Management: Comprehensive, multi-disciplinary program designed to protect your people and places and minimize the impact of potential business threats — from brand infringement to fraud, trade secret violations, loss prevention, harassment, workplace violence, and other physical security threats.
Duty of Care
- Assess security measures that protect employees and customers from potential threats within physical bank locations.
- Concierge-level protection for executives and key employees in high-risk roles or situations.
- Design and establish crisis management plans that include providing support and resources to employees affected by a crisis, whether it's a personal security threat or a wider-scale event.
- Implement accessible and confidential reporting systems for employees to voice concerns or report incidents.
- Keep up-to-date with laws and regulations that protect the rights and safety of employees, including respecting whistleblower protections and ensuring fair treatment of staff.
- Regularly review and update policies and practices to adapt to changing risks and ensure the highest level of employee protection.