Aug. 22 – Shane Ensminger, Senior Vice President, Director of Financial Intelligence & Security Unit, Central Bank & Trust Co.

LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington will hold its weekly meeting on Thursday, August 22, at The Mane on Main, Chase Bank building on Main St. The guest speaker is  Shane Ensminger, Senior Vice President, Director of Financial Intelligence & Security Unit, Central Bank & Trust Co. His presentation will be ” The State of Fraud in Kentucky.”

This meeting will also be on Zoom. For the Zoom link please email, [email protected].

If you would like to have lunch, please contact [email protected] to reserve your meal.

With us today to talk about the Kentucky landscape when it comes to fraud prevalence and prevention is Shane Ensminger, Senior Vice President, Director of Financial Intelligence & Security Unit, at Central Bank & Trust Co.

Prior to joining Central Bank, Shane served twenty-two years with the Lexington Division of Police (LPD) in Lexington, Kentucky.  During his tenure at LPD he served numerous assignments, including Detective and Sergeant of the Narcotics Enforcement Unit, Intelligence and Organized Crime Unit, FBI Criminal Enterprise Task Force, FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force, DEA Task Force, US Marshall’s Fugitive Task Force, and he served as the Assistant Commander of the Emergency Response Unit (SWAT).  Shane has been in banking for eight years, completed the Graduate School of Banking in Colorado and has a Bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice.

A focus of Shane’s presentation will the Kentucky Banking Association’s (KBA) Fraud Academy.  The Fraud Academy is a “first of its kind” school launched by Shane in conjunction with the KBA with the purpose of training bank employees at all levels of the institution on fraud risk and what they can do to fight it.  This program features speakers from the United States Secret Service, attorneys from the US Attorney’s office for the Eastern District of Kentucky, the Lexington Police Department, and other current and former law enforcement experts. All share their experiences and insights to best educate bankers on how to mitigate fraud risk and ultimately reduce fraud loss. The program covers over eighteen areas of fraud including check fraud, elder fraud, cybercrimes and fraud prevention tools. Shane began offering this program to Central Bank employees in 2019 but saw the need to offer the course on broader scale to other Kentucky banks.

“Fraud is rampant, but we’ve proven through this program more can be done to help prevent it,” states Shane.  He goes on to say “This program goes beyond the level of education required by regulations, and we do a deep dive into fraud detection and prevention. Our goal is for graduates to walk away with knowledge they can truly put to use and that they can share with others at their banks.”

Please give Shane a warm Rotary welcome and hang on to your wallets, purses, and passwords!