Jodi Pratt

With more than 25 years of personal experience in a variety of bank operations assignments, Jodi Pratt is now the principal consultant of Jodi Pratt and Associates, focused on providing services to financial institutions and trade banking associations the area of operating and fraud risk management. In 2005, Ms. Pratt began assisting attorneys in both plaintiff and defense actions involving banks as a "banking expert" in case development and has provided "expert witness" testimony as part of her practice.

Ms. Pratt has participated in several national task forces and advisory groups for the financial services industry, including the American Bankers Association Check Fraud Task Force, the ANSI Sub-Committee on Check Fraud, the Star Check Advisory Board, the Primary Payment Systems Steering Committee and the Bank Adminsitration Institute's Planning Committee. She was instrumental in founding a number of industry initiatives including the practice of fingerprinting cashed checks, the creation of a national bankers' "shared metrics" group and the Early Warning Services Shared Fraud Database. She is currently working with other leaders in the industry to help banks minimize loss and legal exposures associated with current and emerging risk management operations, practices, policies, procedures and technologies. She is also a consulting partner with Global Payments Experts and the Santa Fe Group.

Ms. Pratt writes and frequently speaks to industry groups worldwide on the subject of fraud detection and prevention and risk management.