Certified AML Specialist

• Three years experience in the financial services industry either/or an undergraduate or graduate degree in Finance, Economics, Business or Law from an accredited university, college or school.
• Continuous Education: 3 hours of related financial training every year.

What and why are we fighting? A general overview of the domestic and transnational nature of the crime, financial crime and the destabilization it is having on localities and nations and their people. Also a discussion of economic friction and the role it works in our favor as well as a countercurrent to our objectives.

Introduction

• What and why are we fighting?
• What is Money Laundering
• How it works

About crime
A general overview of the domestic and transnational nature of the crime, financial crime and real-life examples of how it can impact on nations and their people.

• International issues including how much, where, how and why?
• International expectations of how to identify and prevent Money Laundering and Countering

Customer Due Diligence (CDD) and Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD)

• Beneficial ownership, domestic and international
• Politically Exposed Persons aka PEPs
• Non-residents
• Not-for-profit, Non-governmental organizations
• Third-party reliance
• AML/CTF programs

Ethics, Compliance and Governance Perspectives
Internal compliance compass is as important as supervising authorities’ demands. How can you develop such an organization wide roadmap?

• Ethics
• Compliance
• Governance

Terrorist Financing (CTF)

• The Financial Action Task Force, regional and country reports
• The European Fourth and Fifth Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Directives
• Regulations. Law and Law Enforcement in the European Union / United Kingdom

Codes and Corporate Compliance Systems
Regional and International applications around successful compliance systems. Benefits organizations enjoy both monetary and non monetary values.

Money Laundering
Money Laundering Insights; global trends and facts about growing Money Laundering cases around the globe.

• Due diligence
• Financial crime
• Risk
• Anti-money laundering

Certificate of achievement

• 10 hours of virtual meetings with the instructor
• 50 hours of self study including articles and presentations
• Full lifetime access to learning material
• Online Examination
• Certificate of achievement

Instructor:

Mark Outhwaite
ESG expert, AML/ prevention of financial crime, trainer