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Financial Crime Foundations
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Course Overview
Financial Crime Foundations is designed for professionals who may be new to AML compliance and those whose responsibilities require a clear understanding of activity and good practice to detect, prevent, and appropriately reporting money laundering and other financial crimes.
This short course seeks to deliver greater awareness and confidence to those tasked with understanding and managing a wide spectrum of financial crime risk.
Training Objectives
On completion of this two-part course, delegates will be able to:
- Understand decision and risk making in relation to financial crime;
- Be aware of relevant local and international law and regulations
- Explain the impact of the various types of financial crime;
- Identify relevant sources of guidance and information
- Consider intelligence and red flags as indicators of criminality
- Articulate rationale and complete key documentation regarding risk;
- Understand the importance of clarity in communication;
- Develop simple investigation techniques enabling work with key partners
Training Outline
Through presentations, facilitated discussion and case studies, the session will deliver overviews of:
- Legal and regulatory requirements for financial crime
- Basics of AML, CTF, Fraud and Bribery and Corruption
- Protection of the firm and individuals
- Basics of intelligence development and financial crime investigations
Training Style
The various input areas will be underpinned by key learning, consolidated through lecture-style inputs and take-aways. Each area will be complemented by video inputs and opportunities to learn from real-life case studies. The participants will be invited to interact with the trainer through Q&A and poll options as well as live discussions. The overall learning will be focussed on key take-aways; transferable to their work environments.
CPD Recognition
This programme may be approved for up to 5 CPD units in Financial Regulation. Eligibility criteria and CPD Units are verified directly by your association, regulator or other bodies which you hold membership.
Professionals requiring CPD units to meet the education requirements for CySEC licence renewal, and/or for maintaining other professional memberships/certifications which accept CPD in Financial Regulation, are advised to consider training subjects in categories that indicate CPD training in Financial Regulation.
Who Should Attend
Financial Crime Foundations is suited to:
- Board level or senior managers with responsibility for financial crime compliance
- Compliance staff; relatively new to their role
- Customer-facing staff who onboard and maintain clients for their organisation
- Staff in investigative or analytical arenas; relatively new to their role
- Staff required to develop corporate threat and risk assessments
Financial Crime Foundations
Contact us for Group Registrations of 4 people or more
Schedule
Wednesday 24/06/2020 - 11:00-13:30
Thursday 25/06/2020 - 11:00-13:30
For over 20 years, Andy has designed and delivered bespoke training and advisory services to a range of public sector and commercial organisations in the UK and overseas. The inputs primarily focus on the arenas of Financial Crime, Crisis and Risk Management and Intelligence-led Investigations. He has developed, co-authored and delivered numerous webinars and several accredited or recognised courses. Whilst most of his work is delivered ‘in-house’ or in an online environment; he does also advise a number of UK media companies on similar matters; to facilitate better public awareness of issues. Andy is a widely experienced, accredited Senior Investigating Officer; having served over 30 years with the UK Metropolitan Police Service. For twenty of those years, he led specialist covert and overt operations within counter-terrorist or organised crime teams at New Scotland Yard. He retired in January 2017 as Head of Specialist Investigations and UK National Terrorist Financial Investigation Unit (NTFIU) at UK Counter Terrorism Command, New Scotland Yard. He had strategic and tactical oversight of all financial investigation and crime disruption investigations to identify, arrest and charge or disrupt terrorist offenders and their criminal associates. In a previous role as Head of London Metropolitan Police Fraud Squad at New Scotland Yard, Andy was responsible for designing their current operating model to counter fraud and cyber-crime; and assisted in the implementation of the new approach. Andy joined the MPS in 1986 following his graduation from university with a BSc in Applied Chemistry. He continued his personal and professional development with a PG Dip in 1994 in Policing from Portsmouth University and was awarded a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) in November 2005 by Strathclyde University. He has been a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute (FCMI) since 2014.
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