Blair is one of the preeminent experts on the United States banking laws and regulations, with more than 40 years of experience in commercial and investment banking.
He has authored compliance manuals recognized by the banking industry as the definitive treatise on banking law and regulations. His contributions to thought leadership in the industry include extensive experience as a speaker to bankers’ associations, and written numerous articles published in banking journals.
Blair’s background includes a Bachelor Science degree in chemical engineering from the University of Kansas as well as a Juris Doctor degree from Southern Methodist University.
Blair now serves as the Chief Compliance Consultant Advisor to the TriComply Services division of Temenos.
Blair Rugh, Chief Compliance Advisor, explains how the processes have changed from stopping physical paper check payments vs. the electronic payments most make today.
The Federal Reserve has begun issuing a new publication titled, “Consumer Compliance Supervision Bulletin”. Its purpose is to alert banks and bankers about compliance violations that its examiners are seeing…
On several occasions I have had a community bank president tell me that for some reason the bank's compliance officer was leaving and ask my opinion about who should be hired to fill the position.
Sometimes, it seems like Congress and the regulators take all of the fun out of everything. A gift from a customer every now and then is just one of the…
I have been doing some work recently on suspicious activity reporting under the Bank Secrecy Act (“BSA”) and for me that always raises the issue of what is meant by “suspicious".
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau publishes a lot of reports. Most of them are not too interesting, but a few do have some interesting information. Recently, the CFPB published its…