Financial account related trigger feature for risk mitigation

• US 8,688,572 B2
• Filed: 06/01/2012
• Issued: 04/01/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/01/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Bank of America Corp.
• Original Assignee: Bank of America Corp.
• Inventors: Shao, Yanghong, Bendel, Timothy J, Joa, David, Allison, Thayer S Jr., Gatpa, Srihari Rao, Yeri, Naveen G, Vo-Dinh, Jade Michelle Le, Makin, Kunal, Joffe, David Neil, Jena, Bibhudatta, Mishra, Vikas, Verma, Deepak
• Primary Examiner(s): OYEBISI, OJO O
• Application Number:
  US13/486,631
• Publication Number:
  US 20130325698A1
• Time in Patent Office: 669 Days
• Field of Search: 705/35, 705/38, 705/39
• US Class Current: 705/39
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/02 Banking, e.g. interest calculation or account maintenance credit or loans G06Q40/03

Abstract

Systems and methods for producing and maintaining account related triggers are provided herein. The systems and methods may be utilized for risk mitigation. Account triggers may be executed to determine account activity indicative of a risk event. Once a risk event is identified, the financial institution may determine an appropriate action to mitigate foreseeable risk due to the risk event.

Claims

1. A system for risk mitigation of one or more accounts of a financial institution, the system comprising:

a computer apparatus including a processor and a memory; and

a risk mitigation software module stored in the memory, comprising executable instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to;

receive account data associated with the one or more accounts;

store the account data in a storage device;

identify inbound transactions based on the account data;

determine a pattern of occurrence for the inbound transactions, wherein the inbound transactions occur at regular intervals, each interval comprising a minimum and maximum number of days between the occurrence of the inbound transactions;

increase the length of each of the intervals by an additional number of days that is proportional to the length of each of the intervals;

determine that at least one expected inbound transaction fails to occur during the increased intervals;

identify triggers comprising account activity indicative of a risk event based on the failure determination, the risk event comprising transactions associated with income loss of an account holder of the one or more accounts or confinement of the account holder; and

determine an appropriate action to mitigate foreseeable risk due to the risk event.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the executable instructions, when executed further cause the processor to:

calculate the total value of outbound transactions that occur during a first period of time and the total value of inbound transactions that occur during the first period of time; and

compare the value of the outbound transaction and the total value of the inbound transactions.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the module is further configured to:

determine that the total value of the outbound transaction is greater the total value of the inbound transaction by a specific amount; and

provide a recommendation to the account holder comprising transferring the specific amount from a first account to a second account before the start of a second period of time, wherein the first period of time comprises a period of time that is prior to the second period of time.

4. The system of claim 2, wherein the outbound transactions comprise automatic withdrawals, internal transfers, and payments.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the module is further configured to:

determine that a total value of outbound transactions of the one or more accounts is greater than a total value of inbound transactions of the one or more accounts;

impose account costs in response to determining that the total value of the outbound transactions is greater than the total value of the inbound transactions; and

trigger a notification to the account holder of the account cost when the account costs are imposed.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the triggers comprise account costs for unavailable funds incurred for the first time in six months.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the triggers comprise account costs that are incurred when the one or more accounts have gone to loss for the first time in six months.

8. A method for risk mitigation of one or more accounts of a financial institution, the method comprising:

receiving account data associated with the one or more accounts;

storing the account data in a storage device;

identifying, via a computing device processor, inbound transactions based on the account data;

determining, via a computing device processor, a pattern of occurrence for the inbound transactions, wherein the inbound transactions occur at regular intervals, each interval comprising a minimum and maximum number of days between the occurrence of the inbound transactions;

increasing, via a computing device processor, the length of each of the intervals by an additional number of days that is proportional to the length of each of the intervals;

determining, via a computing device processor, that at least one expected inbound transaction fails to occur during the increased intervals;

identifying, via a computing device processor, triggers comprising account activity indicative of a risk event based on the failure determination, the risk event comprising transactions associated with income loss of an account holder of the one or more accounts or confinement of the account holder;

determining an appropriate action to mitigate foreseeable risk due to the risk event.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising providing options to avoid account costs to the account holder, wherein the options to avoid account costs are selected from the group consisting of linking an account to the account that incurred costs, changing an account type for the account that incurred costs, and transferring funds to the account that incurred costs.

10. The method of claim 8, further comprising

calculating the total value of outbound transactions that occur during a first period of time and the total value of inbound transactions the occur during the first period of time;

and

comparing the value of the outbound transaction and the total value of the inbound transactions.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

determining that the total value of the outbound transaction is greater the total value of the inbound transaction by a specific amount; and

providing a recommendation to the account holder comprising transferring the specific amount from a first account to a second account before the start of a second period of time, wherein the first period of time comprises a period of time that is prior to the second period of time.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the outbound transactions comprise automatic withdrawals, internal transfers, and payments.

13. The method of claim 8, wherein the triggers comprise cost incurred by the one or more accounts, the cost comprising a first cost incurred by the one or more accounts for a predetermined time period.

14. The method of claim 8, further comprising providing an offer to the account holder associated with forgiving costs incurred by the one or more accounts.

15. A computer program product for promoting account policy education, the computer program product comprising:

a computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, the computer readable program code comprising;

computer readable program code configured to receive account data associated with one or more accounts;

computer readable program code configured to identify inbound transactions based on the account data;

computer readable program code configured to determine a pattern of occurrence for the inbound transactions, wherein the inbound transactions occur at regular intervals, each interval comprising a minimum and maximum number of days between the occurrence of the inbound transactions;

computer readable program code configured to increase the length of each of the intervals by an additional number of days that is proportion al to the length of each of the intervals;

computer readable program code configured to determine that at least one expected inbound transaction fails to occur during the increased intervals;

computer readable program code configured to identify triggers comprising account activity indicative of a risk event based on the failure determination, the risk event comprising transactions associated with income loss of an account holder of the one or more accounts or confinement of the account holder; and

computer readable program code configured to determine an appropriate action to mitigate foreseeable risk due to the risk event.

16. The computer program product of claim 15, further comprising computer readable program code configured to recommend transferring funds from a second account to cover account costs incurred by outbound transactions.

17. The computer program product of claim 15, further comprising computer readable program code configured to provide options to avoid account costs to the account holder, wherein the options to avoid account costs are selected from the group consisting of linking an account to the account that incurred costs, changing an account type for the account that incurred costs, and transferring funds to the account that incurred costs.

18. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein the triggers comprise account costs incurred for the first time in a predetermined time period.

19. The computer program product of claim 15, further comprising computer readable program code configured to:

calculate the total value of outbound transactions that occur during a first period of time and the total value of inbound transactions the occur during the first period of time; and

compare the value of the outbound transaction and the total value of the inbound transactions.

20. The computer program product of claim 19, further comprising computer readable program code configured to:

determining that the total value of the outbound transaction is greater the total value of the inbound transaction by a specific amount; and

providing a recommendation to the account holder comprising transferring the specific amount from a first account to a second account before the start of a second period of time, wherein the first period of time comprises a period of time that is prior to the second period of time.