In this paper, we present and analyse a class of "filtered" numerical schemes for second order Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equations. Our approach follows the ideas introduced in B.D. Froese and A.M. Oberman, Convergent filtered schemes for the Monge-Ampère partial differential equation, SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 51(1): 2013, and more recently applied by other authors to stationary or time-dependent first order Hamilton-Jacobi equations. For high order approximation schemes (where "high" stands for greater than one), the inevitable loss of monotonicity prevents the use of the classical theoretical results for convergence to viscosity solutions. The work introduces a suitable local modification of these schemes by "filtering" them with a monotone scheme, such that they can be proven convergent and still show an overall high order behaviour for smooth enough solutions. We give theoretical proofs of these claims and illustrate the behaviour with numerical tests from mathematical finance, focussing also on the use of backward differencing formulae for constructing the high order schemes. 1 arXiv:1611.04939v1 [math.NA] 15 Nov 2016 b, σ, f, are bounded, Lipschitz and Hölder continuous respectively in space and time, i.e. there is a constant K such that, for any ϕ ∈ {b, σ, f, }, sup a∈A sup (t,x) =(s,y)Moreover, the solution is then also Lipschitz continuous in space and locally 1/2-Hölder continuous in time [14]. The boundedness assumption can be removed, see also [14]. Moreover, in the paper we consider the equation on bounded numerical domains so that the boundedness assumption is automatically satisfied.In this article, we propose approximation schemes for (1.1) for which convergence is guaranteed in a general setting, and which exhibit high order convergence under sufficient regularity of the solution. As we will explain in the following, these are in a sense two conflicting goals, and we will meet them by application of a so-called "filter", an idea introduced in [18].The seminal work by Barles and Souganidis [6] establishes that a consistent and stable scheme converges to the viscosity solution of (1.1) if it is also monotone. That this is not simply a requirement of the proof, but can be crucial in practice, is demonstrated, e.g., by [30] (and also in Section 4.2 here). It is shown there empirically that for the uncertain volatility model from [25], perhaps the simplest non-trivial second order HJB equation there is, the (consistent and stable but) non-monotone Crank-Nicolson scheme fails to converge to the correct viscosity solution in the presence of Lipschitz initial data without higher regularity. This is in contrast to classical solutions where there is no such monotonicity requirement. As the setting of solutions above (i.e., Lipschitz in space and 1/2-Hölder in time) is the natural setting for HJB equations and often no higher global regularity is observed, a wide literature on monotone schemes has developed.By Godunov's theorem [19], in the case of explicit linear schemes for the approximation of the line...