Anti-Money Laundering and Financial Crime Investigation

About the Course

This Anti-Money Laundering and Financial Crime Investigation training course provides an exciting interactive experience for employees within financial services, law enforcement, and the regulated sector to identify the critical areas of concern regarding all facets of financial crime in Money Laundering and Financial Crime Investigation/Analysis.

This highly interactive training course is designed for financial institutions, regulators, and law enforcement agencies. It offers an unparalleled interactive and dynamic classroom scenario-driven experience for the delegates in the analysis and investigation of Money Laundering and financial crime and current issues regarding Typologies, Methods and greater awareness of the global problems associated with Financial Crime.

It will facilitate the delegates' hands-on experience in intelligence analysis to benefit their department and organisation. They will be enabled to identify the critical methods of the money laundering process; they will become more vigilant to the requirements needed to recognise the evolving complexities and risks of Financial Crime.

Core Objectives

This training course provides an interactive experience for the delegates in intelligence analysis to benefit their department and organisation. They will be facilitated to identify the critical methods of the money laundering process; the delegates will become more vigilant to the requirements needed to recognise the evolving complexities and risks of Financial Crime.

The delegates will achieve the following objectives:

• Understand the Typologies and Trends of Financial Crime
• Identify the Methodologies of Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing
• Identify key areas of concern as regards Global Corruption
• Know the latest updates on legislation and regulation as it impacts Financial Crime Professionals
• Apply current knowledge and experience to the exercises provided by the instructors

Training Approach

The delegates will receive relevant, topical, and current issues regarding Typologies, Methods, and Greater Awareness of the global problems associated with Money Laundering and Financial Crime. This will be delivered through a blended learning programme that has been designed to combine actual case studies, followed by in-depth discussions, exercises and question & answer throughout the sessions.

The Attendees

This training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit those working within financial institutions, law enforcement agencies, analytical and tech companies; such as the following:

• Financial Crime Analysts
• Transaction Monitoring Professionals
• AML and Financial Crime investigations Professionals
• Compliance Professionals
• Financial Investigators
• Fraud Investigators
• Middle and Senior Managers
• Team Leaders and Supervisors

Daily Discussion

DAY ONE: FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE

• Financial Intelligence Analysis and Assessment 
• Trade-based Money Laundering
• Emerging Threats in Money Laundering
• Financial Intelligence Debriefs
• P2P Emergence Crypto-currency and VASPS

DAY TWO: THE NEED FOR EFFECTIVE COMPLIANCE AND DUE DILIGENCE

• Sanctions and Sanctions Busting
• Round Tripping Fraud Methodology
• The Principles of the Risk-based Approach
• Government Corruption
• The Roles and Responsibilities of FATF

DAY THREE:  THE CHALLENGES OF MONEY LAUNDERING AND FINANCIAL CRIME

• Crypto-Currency Evolution
• Professional Money Launderers and Gateways (Lawyers, Notaries, Accountants)
• Cyber Threat and Insider Actors
• Money Value Transfer Business and MSBs
• The need for Effective Interpretation of Financial data

DAY FOUR: KEY INDICATORS OF MONEY LAUNDERING

• Interpretation of Financial Data
• Combating the Financing of Terrorism (CFT) analysis of Data
• Proliferation and Sanctions Breaches
• Organised Crime Methodologies and Motivation
• Money Mules Methodologies

DAY FIVE: CONCLUSION AND DEBRIEFING

• How to investigate PEPS and High Net worth Beneficial Owners?
• Cyber-Crime Typologies
• Establishing True ownership of Opaque Structures and Entities
• How to investigate PEPS and High Net Worth Beneficial Owners?
• Establishing True ownership of opaque structures and entities