Advanced Financial Crime Compliance
Course Overview
This advanced program offers a highly interactive learning experience designed for professionals working within financial services and the wider regulated sector. The course equips participants with the knowledge and skills to identify and address critical issues in financial crime compliance, with a focus on money laundering and counter-terrorist financing.
Through collaboration with expert instructors, delegates will explore relevant, up-to-date topics and examine current global challenges, typologies, and methods linked to financial crime.
Developed as a blended learning experience, the program integrates real-world case studies presented by instructors, followed by in-depth discussions, hands-on exercises, and interactive Q&A sessions to reinforce practical understanding.
Key highlights include:
Addressing the key challenges in financial crime compliance
Examining methodologies of money laundering and terrorist financing
Identifying major areas of concern in global corruption
Receiving updates on legislation and regulatory developments affecting financial crime professionals
Creating opportunities to exchange knowledge, skills, and experiences between delegates and instructors
Course Objectives
At the end of this Advanced Financial Crime Compliance training course, you will be able learn to:
Understand the key offences of Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Financial Crime
Review and Analyse case studies through in-depth discussions with instructors
Understand the risks to professionals working in AML and Financial Crime areas
Apply current knowledge and experience to the exercises provided by the Instructors
Learn and develop new skills and techniques in investigations
Course Audience
Financial Crime Analysts
Transaction Monitoring Professionals
AML and Financial Crime investigations Professionals
Compliance Professionals
Financial Investigators
Fraud Investigators
Course Methodology
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Course Outline
Day One: Financial Crime Compliance
Financial Compliance: Analysis and Assessment
Trade-Based Money Laundering (TBML)
Review and Discussion of Compliance Case Studies
Emerging Threats in Money Laundering
Financial Intelligence Exercise and Debrief
The Emergence of P2P Transactions, Cryptocurrencies, and VASPs
Day Two: Effective Compliance and Due Diligence
Sanctions and Sanctions Evasion (Sanctions Busting)
Case Study: Round-Tripping Fraud
AML Practical Exercise
Principles of the Risk-Based Approach
Roles and Responsibilities of the FATF
Day Three: Challenges in Compliance Investigations
State-Sponsored Terrorism: A Case Study on Hezbollah
Professional Money Launderers and Gatekeepers (Lawyers, Notaries, Accountants)
Cyber Threats and Insider Risks
Money Value Transfer Services (MVTS) and MSBs
Day Four: Key Indicators of Money Laundering & Financial Crime
CFT (Countering the Financing of Terrorism) Exercise
Proliferation Financing and Sanctions Breaches
Identifying Extremism through Banking Data
Day Five: Final Review and Debrief
Investigating PEPs and High-Net-Worth Beneficial Owners
Cybercrime Typologies
PEP Exercise: Establishing True Ownership of Opaque Structures and Entities
Comprehensive Debrief and Conclusion of the Programme