
Explore the essentials of compliance risk assessment and its role in financial institutions, covering regulatory compliance, anti-money laundering and countering financing of terrorism, and internal controls.
Explore core concepts in compliance risk assessment, including regulators, laws, risk sources, inherent and residual risk scoring, risk identification, controls mapping, and practical case studies.
Explore why compliance risk assessment matters amid digitalization, cyber threats, and money laundering risks, while regulators enforce robust frameworks to protect data and enforce know-your-customer and know-your-supplier rules.
Build a strong compliance culture by aligning board, management, and employees to identify applicable laws, develop policies, revise procedures, and conduct periodic internal audit for compliance.
Identify and comply with applicable laws and regulations for an internet based company serving diverse customers, addressing foreign exchange, anti-money laundering, data protection, consumer protection, cybersecurity, privacy, penalties, and licenses.
In this lecture, you will learn who issues laws and regulations for the companies and organizations. A file containing some examples of different laws and regulations is also attached.
Explore key laws, regulations, and standards across jurisdictions, including PCI DSS, HIPAA, AML, GDPR, ISO 27,001, ISO 45,001, environmental laws, privacy laws, and risk management guidelines.
You will learn the overview of Data Protection laws and regulations applicable in the US, Canada, and China. Singapore, Australia. The purpose is to know that organizations such as financial institutions or banks include "Relevant and Applicable Data Protection laws and regulations" in periodic compliance risk assessment processes and activities.
You will learn the overview of AML compliance requirements applicable in the US and Europe. The purpose is to know that organizations such as digital banks and neo banks include relevant AML requirements in the periodic compliance risk assessment process and activities.
Risk is the probability of adverse outcomes in actions or events, and in compliance risk management we analyze and calculate risks by examining laws before pursuing new markets.
Define compliance risk as the risk of non-compliance with applicable laws, rules, and regulations identified by management in the jurisdiction, leading to penalties, losses, reputational damage, and market share loss.
In this lecture, you will learn about some common regulatory risks that are faced by financial institutions such as banks. Institutions that do not comply with the laws and regulations in these areas face significant fines and lose their credibility. Let's discuss what these regulatory compliance areas are:
Explain data protection compliance by comparing GDPR and CCPA, and outline governance structures, consent, data access rights, encryption, cross-border transfers, and the role of data officers.
Explore environmental, social, and governance compliance (ESG) and implement carbon emissions reporting, waste management, ethical labor practices, and governance processes to ensure sustainability.
Ensure consumer protection compliance by upholding fair dealing, transparent terms, and ethical lending for legal purposes, while implementing grievance management and whistleblowing mechanisms to address complaints promptly.
Emphasizes occupational health and safety compliance through laws, training, and monitoring to create a safe workplace across offices and construction sites, including emergency preparedness and visitor safety.
Organizations must govern AI use with ethical guidelines, data transparency, testing before launch, post deployment monitoring, IP protection, and remediation controls to prevent data bias and protect user rights.
Discover key AML sources for customer due diligence and know your customer, including national AML acts, FATF recommendations, sanctions lists, internal policies, and regulator communications.
Identify compliance requirements from AML and KYC sources, convert them into internal programs and policies, and implement them across the institution to minimize non-compliance.
Define and identify compliance risks using a specific methodology to assess inherent and residual risk, extract risks from sources, identify resources, and develop a risk treatment plan.
Identify inherent risks as risks embedded in any process, and residual risks as those remaining after applying project appraisal, illustrated by a company investing in a project.
Learn to assign a 1–3 risk score by evaluating significance, impact, and likelihood in compliance risk assessments, and understand how inherent and residual risk differ.
Learn how inherent and residual risk scores are assigned and reduced by controls, from high inherent risk to low residual risk, with a 30% remaining chance after appraisal.
Explain inherent and residual risk scoring for an e-commerce company, illustrating how cybersecurity controls reduce website hacking risk and lower scores from three to two, yielding a medium residual risk.
Learn to use the compliance risk assessment template to document risks, score likelihood and impact, classify risk levels, capture controls and gaps, and perform inherent and residual risk assessments.
Identify compliance risks from five sources—laws, regulations, and standards; policies and procedures; databases of noncompliances; internal audit reports; and compliance reports—and assess penalties, reputational and market losses.
Case Scenario where steps are discussed, how a Compliance Team may use internal policy for the Risk Identification, creation of a Risk Statement, Checking the operating effectiveness of relevant Control for Mapping with Risk.
Hello
Welcome to the 'Introduction to Compliance Risk Assessment (CRA)' Course.
Compliance Risk Assessment (CRA) is a key regulatory requirement in banking, fintechs, digital payments, investment firms, manufacturing, and service sector entities and organizations.
This course is designed and developed in a way to help you implement 'Risk Assessment Methodology and Processes' in Institutions, Organisations, Companies and Corporate Environments.
In this Course, You Will Learn;
Compliance and Regulatory Compliance with Specific Examples, Compliance Culture, and Governance Structures
A Practical Step-by-Step Roadmap to Conduct or Perform 'Compliance Risk Assessments'.
How Institutions and Organizations Evaluate Internal Compliance Controls Effectiveness during a 'Compliance Risk Assessment'.
A practical Compliance Risk Scoring Methodology Matrix with Examples to understand how compliance risks are assessed, scored, prioritized, and mitigated.
Sources of Compliance Risks with Examples necessary to Perform Compliance Risk Assessments CRAs
Compliance Risks Identification, and Extraction Process to draft professional 'Compliance Risk Statements' with specific Cause and Effect
Key Regulatory Compliance Discussions with Examples, including:
Cybersecurity and Information Security Compliance
Data Privacy and Data Protection Regulations (including GDPR and global data protection frameworks)
Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Financial Crime Compliance
Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Compliance
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Governance and Regulatory Risk
Health and Safety Compliance
Consumer Protection and Regulatory Obligations
Developing and Maintaining a Compliance Risk Register, including learning how to draft "Compliance Risk Statements", how to perform Inherent and Residual Risk Assessments, Examples of Risk Assessment Process, How to do Risks Scoring, using Risk Rating Methodology and Model
Controls Mapping and How the Operating Effectiveness of Compliance Controls are Tested
Develop and Build 'Compliance Risk Assessment' Templates and Compliance Risks Mitigation Matrix
You will also gain an overview of compliance expectations across major countries and jurisdictions, including the United States US, Europe, China, Singapore, and Australia.
Examples, Scenarios, and Practical Case Studies demonstrating how Compliance Risk Assessments CRAs are conducted in different corporate and compliance environments.
Multiple Choice Questions - MCQs to test your understanding.
A Practical Home Assignment requiring you to develop a Compliance Risks and Mitigation Controls Matrix
Downloadable CRA templates, Course Script, and Risk Control Matrix
WHY IS THIS COMPLIANCE RISK ASSESSMENT COURSE IMPORTANT
If you are a compliance professional, compliance consultant, risk manager, internal auditor, AML/CFT specialist, or a compliance governance professional, you must understand and know the Specific-Methodology/Process to perform regular and ongoing Compliance Risk Assessments. As laws, regulations, and supervisory expectations are continuously changing and evolving, Compliance Professionals and Teams need to proactively identify emerging compliance risks, assess their significance, and implement risk mitigation controls.
Institutions and organizations that fail to perform regular and structured Compliance Risk Assessments face regulatory inspections, and penalties resulting in financial, operational, and reputational losses.
Benefits of this Course
Practical, implementation-focused methodology
Real world case-studies and templates
Step-by-step compliance risk assessment process
Certificate of course completion.
Who Is This Course For?
If you are working in any of the following capacities or a student learning Compliance and Risk Management, specifically the Compliance Risk Assessment, then this course is for you;
Chief Compliance Officers (CCOs)
GRC Heads, Managers, and Analysts
Compliance Analysts and Compliance Risk Professionals
AML Analysts, MLROs, and DMLROs
Risk Management Professionals and Risk Analysts
Risk and Compliance Consultants
Cyber Security Risk Analysts
Internal Auditors and Internal Controls Specialists
ACAMS, Risk Management and Compliance Students
Anyone seeking structured knowledge of Compliance Risk Assessment.
Whether you work in fintech, open banking, banking, digital payments, e-commerce, technology, or corporate compliance, this course provides practical knowledge to strengthen your regulatory compliance risk management capabilities.
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