
Explore money laundering, terrorism financing, and proliferation financing, detailing the three-stage cycle: placement, layering, integration, and how to spot and report suspicious transactions to financial intelligence units.
The private sector, especially financial institutions, detects money laundering and terrorist financing under anti-money laundering duties, while collaborating with state agencies to train staff and report suspicious activity.
Explore the economic and reputational risks of money laundering and terrorist financing, and learn the multi-layered institutional framework, FATF standards, and key compliance roles (FIU, AML, supervision, KYC).
Establish an internal control system to prevent money laundering and terrorist financing, with risk assessment, KYC procedures, data storage, and reporting to the FIU; train staff and assign roles.
Identify customers through know your client, perform regular and enhanced due diligence, monitor transactions for risk factors and PEPs, and spot red flags.
Identify the ultimate beneficiary through ownership and control, and monitor politically exposed persons, their relatives, and customers to prevent money laundering.
Today majority of countries, banks, financial and a number of non financial institutions have encountered with local and international legislation in the field of money laundering and terrorism financing prevention (AML&CTF). An essential element is to ensure adequate training for employees. Internal controls of a company will not work properly without having insight of AML&CTF area. The course AML&CTF basics gives insight in to the AML&CTF world and offers explanations about main duties in this regard. The course has been developed using the knowledge and experience of AML&CTF experts with practical experience in the financial industry for many years thus ensuring high quality of the product. One of the main emphasis of the course is to teach in a simply manner avoiding wording understandable only by experts. The training is intended for a wide spectrum in both, financial and nonfinancial sector. It includes case studies, situation based practice scenarios, test at end of the each section.
Main topics to be covered:
Level 1
What is money laundering?
What is terrorism and proliferation financing?
The role of the private sector in the fight against money laundering, terrorism and proliferation
Institutional system
Internal control system
Level 2
Know your client
Due diligence
The ultimate beneficiary
Politically exposed person
Customer monitoring
Analysis of suspicions cases
There are no prerequisites to start this course and can be completed in ~2 hrs (including situation based practice scenarios & tests).