Fraud Week 2026 Lunch and Learn: Elder Abuse and Banking

November 2026 Fraud Week Lunch & Learn Session 

Elder Abuse and Banking
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Session Synopsis

Kick off International Fraud Awareness Week with the ACFE Pacific Northwest Chapter. Learn about the existing frameworks the banking industry uses to identify, prevent and mitigate suspected elder abuse, and explore the many ways this type of abuse and fraud can present itself. It's more complicated than you might think.

Presenter

 Thomas "Tom" Powers, AVP - Business Operations Analyst

Presenter Bio

Tom Powers has worked in the banking industry since 1996 and has been involved in escheatment and banking compliance, both state and federal, in one way or another for his entire career.  Currently he works as a Business Operations Analyst and Assistant Vice President for U.S. Bank N.A.’s Account Compliance Operations Services group based out of St. Louis, MO.

His work includes all aspects of escheatment compliance for U.S. Bank, and he works across many business lines including retail deposits and safe deposits, pre-paid cards, corporate accounting, in-house legal and commercial payment services.  He works primarily in the areas of statutory compliance and analysis, risk identification and management, and penalty research and mitigation.

Tom is the current President of the Unclaimed Property Professionals Organization’s (UPPO) Board of Directors, a member of the Government Relations and Advocacy Committee and the Holders Coalition. It is a long story, but Tom holds a B.S. degree in Forest Resource Management from Southern Illinois University.