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Supervisory Activities
Supervisory activities are used for examining and investigating companies.
SES Examinations and Investigations Resources for Agencies
How to initiate and manage examinations and investigations of supervised companies.
Conducting a Supervisory Activity
A Supervisory Activity is an activity conducted by a state agency over a financial institution under its regulatory authority. It includes Examination, Investigation, and enforcement actions.
Loan Requests
When conducting an Examination with a Loan File Review Area for Review (AFR), you can send an Information Request (IR) to the company asking for a full list of their loan information.
Reviewing Loan Request Responses
After the company has worked through the loan requests you have sent them, they send a response either by attaching documents and/or by including a link to a file sharing site.
Using Review Mode to Add Comments to Loan Requests
Learn how to use the Review Mode toggle to easily add comments to loan requests for a supervisory activity.

Supervisory Activities
Supervisory activities are used for examining and investigating companies.
- SES Examinations and Investigations Resources for Agencies
  How to initiate and manage examinations and investigations of supervised companies.
  - Job Aid: Conducting Your First Exam in SES
    This job aid serves as a guide for new Examiner in Charge (EIC) to conduct their first exam in the State Examination System (SES). It highlights the basic workflow of an exam in SES and points out important information along the way.
  - Managing Supervisory Activities
    This section includes managing the Library, exam scheduling, and participants in a Supervisory Activity. Bulk download of data from supervisory activities is also included.
  - Conducting a Supervisory Activity
    A Supervisory Activity is an activity conducted by a state agency over a financial institution under its regulatory authority. It includes Examination, Investigation, and enforcement actions.
    - Initiating a Supervisory Activity
      The first step in conducting an exam, investigation, or enforcement in SES is to Supervisory Activity on a company.
    - Updating the Basic Details of a Supervisory Activity
      Examiners in Charge (EICs), and Staff Users that are participants on a supervisiry activity (SA) can make updates to the basic details of an examination and save them to the SA.
    - Canceling a Supervisory Activity
      You can cancel a supervisory activity (SA) in SES at any time before the report is sent to the company.
    - Sending a Supervisory Activity for Review
      When initiating a Supervisory Activity in SES, you have the option of sending it for review.
    - Reviewing a Newly-Initiated Supervisory Activity
      The staff director or staff user who initiated a supervisory activity (SA) has the option of sending the SA for review to one or more staff directors before it is scheduled.
    - Milestones and the Supervisory Activity Workflow
      The workflow and its milestones are displayed on the supervisory activity's Summary page. There are seven milestones in total, and there are specific tasks to be completed in that phase of the supervisory activity.
    - Managing the Plan
      The plan informs participants of their responsibilities within the exam. Defining the plan is optional.
    - Managing the Scope
      The scope determines the content that will be reviewed during a supervisory activity, including the review period, business types and business activities, and the areas for review within the selected business types and activities.
    - Reviewing the Scope as the Primary Reviewer
      Once the examiner in charge (EIC) sends an item (Scope, Plan, MRA, etc.) for review, the first reviewer selected in the step is the primary reviewer. Only the first reviewer selected to review the item can follow these steps.
    - Information Requests
      Information Request (IR) contain template language used to request information from a company.
    - Loan Requests
      When conducting an Examination with a Loan File Review Area for Review (AFR), you can send an Information Request (IR) to the company asking for a full list of their loan information.
      - Managing Loan File Requests
        When conducting an exam with a Loan File Review area for review (AFR), you can send an information request (IR) to the company asking for a full list of their loan information. The company typically responds with a spreadsheet in the requested format with a full list of loans.
      - Reviewing Loan Request Responses
        After the company has worked through the loan requests you have sent them, they send a response either by attaching documents and/or by including a link to a file sharing site.
        Searching Agency Loan Request Responses
        After a company has sent loan request (LR) responses to your agency, you can search through the responses by borrower name, property state, response text, and file name.
        Marking Your Favorite Loan Requests
        How to mark the loan requests you are interested in on a supervisory activity in SES.
        Working a Single Loan Request Response
        When the company responds to a loan request, you can add notes, upload documents, associate findings, choose a retention period, and mark the response complete.
        Bulk Working Loan Requests
        When the company responds to loan requests, you can add notes, upload documents, associate findings, choose a retention period, and mark the response complete in bulk.
        Using Review Mode to Add Comments to Loan Requests
        Learn how to use the Review Mode toggle to easily add comments to loan requests for a supervisory activity.
        Uploading General Loan Request Documents
        Active agency participants on a supervisory activity (SA) can upload general loan request documents to an SA.
        Undo Completion of Loan Request
        You can undo the completion of a loan request before the report is sent to the company.
        Reworking a Completed Loan Request
        You can re-work a completed loan request response sent by the company if you do it before the report is sent.
        Quickly Adding a Finding
        You have the option to chapter/exam_inv/topics/c_agency_examConduct_Findings.html or chapter/MRA/topics/t_agency_MRA_adding-1.html and commentary while entering observations to a loan request.
        Managing Associated Findings for Loan Requests
        You can associate findings to loan requests that have been sent to the company.
        Assigning a Single Loan Request
        You can assign a loan request to SA participants for review.
        Bulk Assigning Loan Requests
        You can assign loan requests in bulk to one or more participants for review.
        Sending Back a Loan Request to the Company
        How to send a single loan request back after receiving a response.
        Bulk Sending Back Loan Requests to the Company
        How to send loan requests back in bulk after receiving responses.
        Recalling a Loan Request Sent to the Company
        Before the company responds to a loan request (LR) or the report has been sent, you can recall an LR that has been sent (or sent back) to the company.
    - Transaction Requests for Agencies
      Transaction requests in SES allow agency users to initiate and manage formal requests related to specific transactions during a money services business (MSB) examination. Unlike information requests or loan requests, which target broader data or document categories, transaction requests focus on obtaining evidence tied to individual transactions, supporting detailed analysis and issue identification throughout the examination lifecycle.
    - Agent Location Requests
      Learn how to use the agent location requests functionality in SES as part of an MSB examination.
    - MTRA Workbook
      Users conducting MSB exams can export work completed in SES into a template that matches the MTRA work program.
    - Procedures
      Procedures are used to guide examiners during the examination in the review of company documentation or compliance with statutes, regulations, and other requirements.
    - Conducting the Exam: Reviewing Information Request Responses
      Conducting the exam consists of reviewing Information Request (IR) responses, working procedures and adding or reviewing findings.
    - Findings
      A finding is an issue identified by a state agency user during the supervision of a financial institution in SES. The finding may describe the company’s strengths and/or weaknesses regarding its compliance management system, assess the company’s compliance with consumer protection laws or regulations, or any potential consumer harm. A finding may be either a violation, recommendation, or observation.
    - Conducting the Exam: Marking an Area for Review (AFR) Complete
      Conducting the exam consists of reviewing information request (IR) responses, working procedures, and adding or reviewing findings and finding commentary.
    - Scheduling the Exit Meeting
      Schedule the exit meeting when you are ready to review the results of your examination with the company you are examining.
    - Financial Statements
      This topic provides an overview of the Financial Statements section in SES, which allows agency users to capture and analyze a company’s financial data within the context of a money services business (MSB) examination. Examiners can create a structured financial grid—similar to the MTRA Work Program workbook—to assess financial health, identify risks, and support consistent, data-driven examination decisions.
    - Report of Examination
      Assembling and managing report package, report commentary, and company response.
    - Matters Requiring Attention
      Matters Requiring Attention are optional tools to enable communications between agency and company regarding the resolution of findings from the exam.
    - Closing Out a Supervisory Activity
      When a Supervisory Activity is completed, you can close and lock it.
    - Managing Time and Expenses
      SES provides functionality that allows you to document the time and expenses your agency incurs while conducting a supervisory activity.
    - Company Documents Page on a Supervisory Activity
      Learn about the Company Documents page on a supervisory activity (SA) in SES. The Company Documents page provides a centralized location to view all documents uploaded by the company for a supervisory activity.
  - Networked Supervision
    Networked Supervision allows agencies in multiple states to share resources on a supervisory activity.
- SES Examinations and Investigations Resources for Companies
  Responding to examinations and investigations in State Examination System (SES).
- Managing Communications
  Learn about the Communication page in SES supervisory activities (SAs).
- Managing Interactions
  The Interactions page serves as a place where communication between the agency and company is captured. This includes emails, phone calls, meetings, physical mail and other miscellaneous forms of communication specific to the supervisory activity.
- SES Supervisory Activity Reports
  SES has several reports that allow you to view staff workload, plan assignments, identify supervisory activities with no examiners assigned, and view the progress or status of supervisory activites and responses to information requests.

Using Review Mode to Add Comments to Loan Requests

Learn how to use the Review Mode toggle to easily add comments to loan requests for a supervisory activity.

About this task

Agency participants on a supervisory activity with the ability to work loan requests can use the Review Mode toggle on the Loan Request Details tab to easily add comments to loan requests.

Procedure

Navigate to your supervisory activity.
Click Loan Requests > Loan Details.

Note: Use Review Mode to limit the number of columns that are displayed. This mode can help you identify loan requests that have findings, violations, or work paper notes associated with them.
Click the Manage Review Information () button in the last column of the grid to enter comments.
Enter your review comments.
Select who should see the loan request review information (just you or participants from your agency).
Select if you want the review comments to be highlighted in the Loan Request Details grid.
Optional: Select the highlight color.
Click Save Loan Request Review.

Need More Help?

Agency users, please visit the Secure Portal for phone and email contacts.
Company users should call the Call Center at 1-800-269-6189. Agency users should not call this number.