Description:
This session is designed to equip compliance officers with a clear, practical understanding of how to design, execute, and leverage compliance risk assessments to build and sustain a risk-based compliance program.
You will learn how risk assessments serve as the foundation for prioritizing resources, shaping monitoring and testing, and guiding strategic compliance decisions across the institution.
A well-developed compliance risk assessment is more than a regulatory expectation; it is the engine that drives an effective Compliance Management System (CMS). This session focuses on how to identify, measure, and manage compliance risk across business lines and regulatory requirements, ensuring that compliance efforts are aligned with the institution’s highest areas of risk.
Without a strong risk assessment process, compliance programs can become reactive and inefficient. This session will help participants:
- Move from checklist-based compliance to risk-driven decision making
- Focus on what matters most to regulators and the institution
- Strengthen exam readiness and defensibility
- Create consistency across compliance activities
By the end of this webinar, Participants will leave with:
- A clear framework for conducting compliance risk assessments
- An understanding of how different risk assessments interconnect
- Practical approaches to scoring and evaluating risk
- Actionable strategies to build and maintain a risk-based compliance program
Presenters:
Kimberly Boatwright, CRCM, CAMS, FLE
Kimberly Boatwright is EVP and Director of Risk and Compliance at Compliance Resource, LLC and has more than a two decades of experience working in the financial services industry. Ms. Boatwright is a well-regarded financial industry risk and compliance professional with a strong background in program development and implementation. She is a thought leader who specializes in Fair Lending, Anti-Money Laundering, OFAC and consumer compliance. During her career she has worked for and consulted with all types of financial institutions helping to establish and evolve compliance and risk programs. She is a frequent public speaker, trainer, and author on compliance and risk management topics. Kimberly is a Certified Regulatory Compliance Manager, a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist and a Fair Lending Expert.
July 22, 2026