
Explore the FATF recommendations on high risk customers and activities within the anti money laundering framework, covering risk-based approach, politically exposed persons, and correspondent banking.
Examine a money laundering example where illegal proceeds from trading goods are channeled through a restaurant business, deposited into a bank account, and injected into the financial system.
This money laundering example shows Mr. E, employee with an unregistered business linked to a blacklisted country, concealing income and evading taxes through cash deposited via his wife's beauty parlor.
Explain how international best practices and FATF recommendations require banks, investment and insurance firms, and other service providers to design and implement strong anti money laundering controls.
Let's discuss the High Risk Jurisdiction/Country and the Most Serious Country/Blacklisted Country. We will discuss the overview of what FATF suggests for High-Risk Countries and Most Serious/Blacklisted Countries to the member countries.
FATF may classify a jurisdiction, under the list of "jurisdiction under increased monitoring". Let's discuss the overview of it in this lecture.
Adopt a risk based approach to anti money laundering and terrorist financing by identifying and assessing high risk customers and activities, then allocating resources and controls to mitigate identified risks.
Outline customer due diligence (CDD) measures across four stages: establishment of relations, high-threshold transactions, suspicions of money laundering or terrorist financing, and data adequacy doubts.
Identify high risk customers and activities under FATF recommendations, focusing on politically exposed persons and the correspondent banking relationship, to strengthen anti-money laundering measures against corruption, bribery, and terrorist financing.
In this lecture, we will discuss the Foreign PEPs and Domestic PEPs with examples.
Identify if a customer is a PEP, apply enhanced due diligence and monitoring, determine beneficial owners, obtain senior management approval for account decisions, and assess source of wealth.
Explore a practical example of a politically exposed person within FATF's recommendation for p eps, illustrating how banks perform customer due diligence when opening an account.
This example shows how banks apply enhanced due diligence to politically exposed persons, requiring identity documents, source of income checks, background checks, senior-management approval, and ongoing monitoring.
Apply Financial Action Task Force recommendations, fdic recommendation 13, performing due diligence, business and reputation checks, money laundering and terrorism financing screening, controls, and approvals before establishing correspondent banking relationships.
Understand ongoing monitoring of correspondent banking relationships to detect unusual or suspicious transactions and changes in risk profiles, with information requests and possible termination in high-risk cases.
Do you know that the biggest challenge for financial institutions is to identify and manage Money Laundering Risks, Terrorist Financing Risks, and related activities?
Do you know why companies and institutions are being penalized by regulators?
How do financial institutions manage the risk of money laundering and terrorist financing? What is Financial Action Task Force FATF?
FATF Recommendations help organizations in combating money laundering, terrorist financing, and proliferation financing (funding for weapons of mass destruction), BUT Do you know, what the Financial Action Task Force (FATF's) Recommendations 12, and 13 are all about?
Millions of Dollars are spent by financial institutions in the world, on implementing controls and measures, to manage and mitigate Money Laundering ML and Terrorists Financing TF risks and threats.
About Course:
This course is designed to provide you with a practical insight into Anti Money Laundering AML and Countering Financing of Terrorism CFT, and an overview of FATF's Recommendations No. 12 and 13, which are related to PEPs, and Correspondent Banking.
FATF's recommendations 12 and 13, relate to additional measures for specific customers, and activities, and we shall cover:
Politically exposed persons (PEPs)
Correspondent banking relationship
In this course, you will also get an insight into how the Financial Institutions FIs are focusing on a strong compliance culture, to avoid/ manage the Money Laundering ML / Terrorist Financing TF risks to avoid penalties and reputation losses.
You will learn the:
- Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing with Examples
- Anti Money Laundering AML Measures
- Overview of FATF's Risk-Based Approach RBA
- Customer Due Diligence Measures
- Enhanced Customer Due Diligence EDD
- Overview of High-Risk Jurisdictions, Most Serious Jurisdictions, and Jurisdictions under Increased Monitoring by FATF
- Overview of FATF Recommendations 12 and 13
- Politically Exposed Persons PEPs and related ML/TF risk factors
- Correspondent Banking Relationship and related ML/TF risk factors
- Practical Examples
A QUIZ TO TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE ABOUT FATF HIGH-RISK CUSTOMERS AND TRANSACTIONS / AML CFT IS ALSO PART OF THIS COURSE
This course will help you in your job roles particularly if your area is Compliance, Anti Money Laundering AML, Regulatory Compliance, Customer Relationship, and Risk Assessment and Management.
After attending this course, you will be able to confidently talk and communicate with compliance professionals, AML / CFT professionals, compliance audit professionals, and other related professionals.
Who is this course for:
Compliance professionals and students
Regulatory Compliance professionals
Risk management professionals and students
Internal audit professionals and students
Internal controls professionals
Finance professionals and students
CAMS, AML/CFT students
ACCA, CPA, CGA, CMA students