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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
This course applies a highly practical methodology that blends theory with real-world application. Participants will engage in interactive lectures, case studies, group discussions, and scenario-based exercises focused on emerging trends in financial crime. Practical workshops and simulation exercises will help participants apply global compliance frameworks and regulatory requirements to real-life situations. The methodology emphasizes problem-solving, risk-based approaches, and the use of technology and data analytics in combating financial crime, ensuring that participants leave with both strategic insight and hands-on skills.
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