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Crypto currency has become a major money laundering risk over the past year alone.  Carrying a new and complex level of global money laundering.  The need for this training in awareness of the cryptocurrency threat is crucial for compliance and legal professionals.

ΣΚΟΠΟΣ ΣΕΜΙΝΑΡΙΟΥ

Although crypto currency as a financial commodity has been around for some years, the sudden leap forward in its availability and with global regulation struggling for consistency has created a potential Tsunami threat of money laundering. A threat mostly brought about by the paradigm-shift by criminals now both using and by-passing banks to launder massive sums in criminal proceeds. Such is the complexity and the need to address it.

Therefore, we offer a new and creative training course designed to cut through the morass of money laundering issues tied with crypto currency.

Essentially, we seek to ensure awareness for you to instill best practices in your organisation to meet new money laundering threats brought by crypto-currency imbued with AML vulnerabilities.

ΣΕ ΠΟΙΟΥΣ ΑΠΕΥΘΥΝΕΤΑΙ

Lawyers, Corporate Administrators, Accountants/Auditors, Compliance officers, Compliance assistants, individuals who are interested in becoming a compliance officer or are interested in Compliance, CEO,s finance institutions of macro, micro finance, Compliance managers (banks and other FI’s), Investment specialists, Wealth management company staff: on-boarding, and account monitoring Internal auditors, Money Laundering Reporting Officers (MLROs), In-house counsel, CFO’s.

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Course Materials: 

The course takes a thorough and practical delivery approach.  We use presentations, interactive group activities, multi-directional discussions and case studies.

Course certificate: 

A training Certificate will be awarded to those participants who will successfully complete the training. The CPD points awarded for attendance will be detailed on the course certificate. 

Course content:

1.Crypto currency. Key concepts and explanations

Crypto-currency: definitions, explanations and highlighting AML risk areas thereof

2.Predicate crimes related to crypto currency.

Precision detection of ‘conversion points’ from fraud and related ‘predicate crimes’ in crypto currency to becoming criminal proceeds and thereby ‘laundered’ proceeds

3.Beyond defined jurisdictions

Removing a commonly-held belief that particular money laundering threats and sources are confined to particular regions

4.Controls, Compliance and Sharing Intelligence

How appropriate professionals can meet the challenges to both bolster financial intelligence sharing, and engage in cross-border investigation

5.Key Policy Reviews

Setting out company AML policy objectives to enable an effective defence policy to incorporate crypto-currency – capable of being audited and inspected

6.Risk Management

•Crucial risk management review of AML crypto currency trends and patterns.

•Risk-mapping.

•Legislative developments