Focus on Anti-Money Laundering & Financial Crime

IFF

Course

Online

£ 499 VAT inc.

Description

  • Type

    Course

  • Level

    Intermediate

  • Methodology

    Online

  • Duration

    6 Weeks

  • Online campus

    Yes

  • Delivery of study materials

    Yes

  • Support service

    Yes

  • Virtual classes

    Yes

How you’ll learn
A module is released each week for five weeks
The learning is in bitesize chunks so it does not impact on your normal working day
You'll learn via video content, quizzes and other materials
You'll be able to interact with the trainer and other students on the discussion forum
After the five weeks is over, you have two months to review the material

About this course

What you’ll learn
Identify the way money laundering is all around us and treat customers / transactions / jurisdictions and products with ‘professional scepticism’ .
Understand the global regulations and their recent changes, in respect to UBO/PEPs and CDD .
Isolate the risks inherent in the different types of financial crime, both internal and external
Apply the ‘smell test’ in your daily work and lose any reluctance to report potential infractions

ACCREDITATION – we are accredited by the British Accreditation Council (BAC)

Why choose IFF
TRACK RECORD – we have over 20 years’ experience of providing training to the banking, finance and energy sectors
INNOVATION – our courses are continually reviewed so you can be sure they are focusing on the most current issues
KNOWLEDGE – all of our trainers are highly experienced practitioners and leading subject matter experts so you can be confident you are learning from the very best
SMALL CLASS SIZES – to aid learning and increase your personal interaction with the trainer
VALUE – we provide a practical training experience with skills that can be used immediately to gain a tangible return on your investment

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Subjects

  • Anti-money Laundering
  • Financial
  • Financial Training
  • Financial Crime
  • Understanding
  • Terminology
  • Environment
  • Regulatory
  • Typologies
  • Regulators
  • FinCen
  • Influence

Course programme

Course Programme

Module 1: The Scale of the Problem, Terminology and Methodology
  • A $2tn industry
  • Understanding the terminology from both sides
  • Placement, layering & integration
  • Predicate crimes and their audit trails
  • Tax evasion/avoidance & the problem with cash
  • The role of financial institutions & obliged entities
  • Terrorist financing & people trafficking
  • Recent typologies
Module 2: The Regulatory Environment
  • FATF/Egmont/Wolfsberg and other international bodies
  • EU regulators and their scope of influence
  • FinCen & other US regulatory players
  • OFAC & sanctions bodies
  • Asia Pacific Regulators
  • BIS/Transparency International and other trade bodies
  • 4MLD & its influence
Module 3: Types of Customer & High-Risk Jurisdictions
  • PEPs & PEP Associates
  • Trusts/Foundations/Offshore Companies/Charities/LLPs
  • High risk jurisdictions – what do we mean by offshore?
  • What do the Panama & Paradise Papers tells us?
  • Sectors/countries that are particularly vulnerable to ML
  • Customer & entity ‘red flags’
Module 4: Due Diligence
  • Identification & verification – problems with documents
  • KYC – the importance of ‘professional scepticism’
  • Enhanced Due Diligence – when and how
  • Beneficial ownership – new regulations
  • Understanding ‘control’
  • Problems with policies & procedures
  • The dangers of ‘box ticking’ in DD
  • Remediation
  • The ‘smell test’ and the importance of SARs
Module 5: Sanctions & the Future
  • What are sanctions?
  • Types of sanction programme
  • SDNs & Blocked Persons
  • Restricted goods regulations
  • Penalties for sanction breaches
  • NPPS
  • Cryptocurrencies
  • Assessing weaknesses in global AML programmes
Module 6: The Covid Crisis, its Impact & Potential Consequences

The pandemic, far from deterring the criminals & launderers has led to new predicate crimes and new avenues to wash their ill gotten gains. In addition, we have seen some older laundering techniques come back into vogue. This module examines:

The impact of the pandemic on:
  • the criminals trying to launder money
  • those trying to prevent laundering and the regulatory response
The regulatory response

The technological advances
  • how they are changing the way AML is being practiced within businesses and the future for financial crime compliance generally.

Focus on Anti-Money Laundering & Financial Crime

£ 499 VAT inc.