Course Outline

Identifying and Evaluating Key Risks

  • Analysing the role of the Compliance Officer, the MLRO, the MLCO, Internal Audit and the Board
  • What makes an effective Compliance Officer?
  • Accountability of the Compliance Officer
  • Interdependencies with other control functions
  • Primary, secondary and on-demand compliance
  • The Compliance Officer’s Activities – and the support required

Designing and Implementing an Effective Compliance Framework including a Monitoring Programme

  • Analysing legal and regulatory rules
  • Identifying risks
  • Designing control and procedures
  • Generating management information
  • Creating an effective compliance culture
  • Monitoring

Compliance and Corporate Governance

  • Concepts in Corporate Governance and how these help manage risk
  • Whistle blowing
  • Role of the director
  • Creating an effective board
  • Differentiating the roles of the executive and non executive director
  • Creating and effectively utilising Corporate Governance committees e.g. Audit, Remuneration
  • Financial reporting and Corporate Governance
  • The Turnbull Report and effective risk management

The Latest Local and International Regulatory Issues Surrounding Compliance and Financial Crime Prevention

  • Issues in Compliance
  • Issues in Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Combating Terrorist Financing (CTF)
  • Issues in Fraud
  • Issues in Identity Theft
  • Issues in Phishing

Managing the Risk of Money Laundering

  • Offshore Issues, PEPs and EPs
  • Know Your Client (KYC) and Identification & Verification (ID&V)
  • A Risk-Management Approach
  • Case studies

Other Regulatory Risks

  • Information Security and Data Protection
  • Market Abuse and Insider Dealing
  • Bribery and Corruption
  • Sanctions
  • …and other types and Risks in on-shore and off-shore Banking

Human Factors in Risk Management

  • Understanding the importance of human error in procedures-driven environments
  • Common human factor problems
    • Steep authority gradients
    • Reliance vacuums
    • Dominant individuals
  • Identifying and addressing human factor issues
  • Developing an effective compliance culture

Criminal Abuse of Private Banking Services, Trusts and Corporate Services companies

  • Offshore companies and corporate services analysed
  • Offshore trusts and trustee services analysed
  • The criticality of fiduciary duty
  • Understanding commercial rationale
  • AML trust and company vulnerabilities
  • Examples of abuse
  • Case studies
  7 Hours
 

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