Senior staff AML/CFT Mandatory Training

1.5 PD hours

Description

Overview to follow.

Content

Understanding personal nature of obligations under the current statute and regulatory regimes
Challenging ML myths – Appreciating your firms ML & FT risks in reality
Conducting and recording a meaningful business risk assessment
Hot topics – MoneyVal, sanctions, tax evasion, proliferation
Establishing a formal strategy to counter money laundering and the financing of terrorism

Risk-based CDD policies and procedure
Recognition and examination of suspicious transactions and activity
Ensuring an effective SARs framework
Assessing the effectiveness of, and compliance with, systems and controls(including policies and procedures)
Money laundering and financing of terrorism developments, including techniques, methods, trends and typologies

Embedding a positive AML culture
Lessons learnt from recent AML failings

Presenter

Jo French

Expert Trainer at the School of International Financial Services

Jo, through her company JETT Limited, specialises in developing contemporary bespoke, technical in-house CPD programmes covering a range of AML, compliance and governance issues. She has over 25 years’ experience in delivering credible training to a wide range of financial service businesses both in the Crown Dependencies and internationally, as well as institutions that include the BBA, the ACSP in the Isle of Man, Guernsey Training Agency and the Jersey International Business School where her role also extended to delivering on Buckingham University’s BSc (Hons) in International Financial Services degree as part of their faculty.

In addition, she has taught on the International Compliance Association’s full range of AML and compliance qualifications since 2005, and as a Fellow of the Governance Institute (formally ICSA) written and delivered across both level 4&5 Certificate and Diploma, as well as the qualifying scheme, (subjects include Corporate Governance, Risk Management, Boardroom Dynamics, Company Law and Company Compliance and Administration.) Jo’s ICSA students have won many international prizes, most recently in Trust and Company Administration in May 2021, and CORE in the November 2021 exams.

A committed educationalist, Jo has a First Class Law Degree (LLB) and Masters in Law (LLM) (Merit) from Queen Mary University of London specialising in financial services law. She is passionate about the delivery of accessible and innovative training courses.