MLRO Structured Masterclass Training (Jersey-specific)

Description

This masterclass prepares MLROs for 2025 by addressing key challenges and developments. It evaluates the MLRO role’s evolving demands, new SAR reporting requirements, and enhanced engagement with the FIU. Participants will explore shifts in the ML/FT/PF risk landscape, ensuring their Business Risk Assessment (BRA) reflects actual risks. The session highlights strategies for demonstrating the effectiveness of AML Compliance Monitoring Programmes and offers practical tools for continuous improvement. Real-world case studies are integrated throughout, providing actionable insights within Jersey’s regulatory framework. This training ensures MLROs remain effective, compliant, and well-equipped to navigate the complex anti-financial crime environment.

 

Content 

  • Role of the MLRO in 2025 – fit for purpose?

  • SAR reporting – new requirements and relations with the FIU

  • Changes in the ML/FT/PF risk universe -  Does your BRA match your risk in reality?

  • How are you doing? Demonstrating an effective AML Compliance Monitoring Programme

  • Supporting case studies throughout

 

Presenter

Jo French

Expert Trainer at the School of International Financial Services

Jo French 

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.