
Learn how banks assess industry risks in AML/CDD, identify high-risk sectors like freight, jewelry, gaming, and digital assets, and implement risk-based mitigations including monitoring and benchmarking.
Explore anti-money laundering (AML) frameworks—laws, regulations, policies, procedures, and technologies—that prevent criminals from disguising illegal funds as legitimate income, and the three stages of money laundering: placement, layering, integration.
Explore the common characteristics of high-risk transactions, including geographic areas and sanctions, large values, complex structures, rapid fund movements, and transactions with no reasonable economic purpose, to support AML/CFT compliance.
Network analysis maps connections between people, accounts, and transactions to reveal hidden links in money laundering networks. It identifies clusters and unusual patterns to guide AML investigations using data sources.
Explore megatrends shaping AML, CDD, and KYC in banking, including offshoring and AI-driven efficiency. See how technology and regulatory standards redefine roles in financial crime risk management.
Analyze how the cryptocurrency industry's anonymity, cross-border regulation gaps, volatility, exchange vulnerabilities, and dark web activity elevate financial crime risk, and explore AML, CDD, and KYC implications for banking.
Designed for those who are interested in understanding or developing a career in the AML, CDD and KYC compliance field, particularly in Finance or Banking.
As a professional banker with multinational banking experience and a dedicated expertise in non-financial risk management, I had recruited and led more than 100 AML/CDD professionals in performing various financial crime risk management functions in multiple jurisdictions.
In this course, we will go through key concepts of Customer Due Diligence (CDD) and Know Your Customer (KYC), with emphasis on their applicability in Anti-Money-Laundering (AML) and other financial crime risks management.
We will be looking in-depth of each CDD elements (including but not limited to Identification and Verification, Industry analysis, Country Risks etc.) during KYC, understand the type of risks being associated in the process, and comprehend the different ways of mitigations in managing these risks that are currently being performed in Banks and Financial Institutions.
You will be able to obtain first-hand insights on how these functions are being operated in a Bank, what kind of roles are supporting these functions, as well as their future prospects under various mega-trends. For example, we will be looking in-depth on the applicability in Artificial Intelligence and their impacts to financial crimes risks development; we will also be exploring what kind of employment opportunities are in demand under these mega-trends.
Upon finishing this course, you will be equipped with the critical knowledge you will need to know in financial crimes risks management in Finance and Banking, along with a first-hand understanding of how the field functions.