Preventing, Detecting and Investigating Financial Crime

Workshop overview

Financial crime is one of the greatest challenges the global financial services industry faces. Money laundering, terrorist financing and other scandals have led the FCA to ramp up its efforts to fight financial crime and protect the integrity of markets.

Multi-million pound fines have been issued to organisations, lengthy jail sentences dished out to rogue employees, and serious financial losses incurred. The repercussions of failure to detect financial crime are serious and the whole industry is vulnerable.

The FCA wants to work together to make it harder for criminals to exploit your business and your clients. It’s no longer enough for organisations to say they didn’t know suspicious activity was taking place. The market watchdog expects your company to recognise the red flags as part of your governance framework.

Led by an expert in financial crime prevention, this workshop will open your eyes to this very real threat. You’ll learn to take a more proactive approach to financial crime, and make sure your workforce is on high alert.

Learning outcomes:

Clarify how money laundering and terrorist financing work
Understand the preventative international framework
Discuss the up to date thinking on politically exposed persons (PEPs)
Be aware of the FCA’s renewed focus on sanctions
Apply the management and staff responsibilities to your firm

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Whether you are seeking to upskill your team, enhance productivity or foster a culture of continuous learning, we can deliver customised training programmes designed to meet your specific needs. If you have an enquiry, you can complete the in-house form and our training team will be in touch with next steps.

IN-HOUSE TRAINING

Area of expertise:

Commercial finance Economic crime Payments, innovation & resilience Prudential risk, reporting and tax

Martin Allen

A lengthy, highly successful and varied career in Barclays bank has been the perfect springboard to martin becoming an exceptional consultant, not onl...

A lengthy, highly successful and varied career in Barclays bank has been the perfect springboard to martin becoming an exceptional consultant, not only within financial services but across a broad spread of clients in the UK, Europe, Africa, the Middle East and in the Caribbean.

His training expertise which began over 30 years ago (interspersed with senior management roles) has developed unparalleled:

• Knowledge and experience in his areas of expertise

• In compliance – especially in financial crime prevention focusing on anti-money laundering (AML), combating terrorist financing (CTF), fraud and identity theft

• Across all aspects of traditional retail and corporate banking and exposure to investment banking, international banking (especially “off-shore”) and private banking

• Communication and inter-personal skills:

• With staff at all levels in organisations from inductees to board members

• With course delegates on training events from the purely practical – ensuring that procedures are followed correctly – through all aspects of management and leadership skills, to advanced facilitation

• Consistent high-quality feedback shows that he’s equally at ease engaging with new inductees as he is challenging the thinking of senior executives

He has particular expertise in financial crime prevention where he is widely acknowledged as a subject matter expert thanks in no small part to wide and deep exposure to the development of anti-money laundering / know your customer (AML /KYC) and countering terrorist financing (CTF) solutions both during his time at Barclays and since. This exposure has involved inter alia the development and delivery of policy, procedure, training and communication on the identification and prevention of money laundering, terrorist financing, fraud, identity theft and “phishing” both in the UK and in overseas jurisdictions.

Anyone who wants to understand more about how firms and individuals can prevent financial crime:

New MLROs
New to financial crime teams
New compliance officers

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