Protective Alerts

As a service to our members, the SDBA electronically notifies employees of banks and branches in South Dakota about reported financial crimes.

• Register to Receive Protective Alerts: If you would like to register to receive electronic protective alerts via email, you can register and create a profile with the SDBA. Select the box "Subscribe to Protective Alerts." If you are already a registered online user with the SDBA, you can log in and edit your profile to receive protective alerts.
   

• Post a Protective Alert: If you feel that your bank has been the subject of an attempted scam, please contact us and we will notify SDBA members in order to minimize their losses. Alert information can be sent to the SDBA office via email to ademers@sdba.com or by fax to (605) 224-7835. Please include all pertinent information and also list a contact person and phone number or email address.

If you have any questions about registering to receive or posting a protective alert, contact Alisa DeMers, SDBA, at (800) 726-7322 or (605) 224-1653.

FinCrime Notice:
FinCrime – the financial crime reporting network and website sponsored by the South Dakota Bankers Association (SDBA) and 11 other state bankers associations – will be ceasing operations effective December 31, 2011. 

FinCrime was very successful in the initial years, but over the last few years the number of crime incidents being posted to the website has been declining. The decline has reached a point that the sponsoring associations feel the member benefit no longer justifies the resources required to keep FinCrime operating.

We appreciate your support of FinCrime in the past. As a replacement to FinCrime, the SDBA will now electronically distribute protective alerts to its members via email. The SDBA has created a distribution list containing all member bank CEOs and branch managers, those who were registered with FinCrime, and anyone else who would like to join the list.  

NOTE: THIS IS THE FINCRIME NETWORK, NOT FINCEN. This does not impact your reporting obligation under FinCen.