We provide two kinds of in-house training services for AML and other relevant topics:

Money Laundering Matters

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The course provides a grounding in the world of dark money that will be useful equally to Compliance and AML teams, and a firm’s front office staff as well as its senior management. Depending on the audience, a full day may be desirable, but a half-day version, more suitable for front office and senior management groups can also be delivered. Specific ‘in-firm’ requirements can be incorporated upon request. 

Our course examines in appropriate detail: 

  • The history of money laundering

  • The global and local scale of the problem

  • The regulatory and legislative environments

  • Laundromats and other money laundering methodologies

  • The role of shell companies and offshore locations

  • Enablers of money laundering and wider financial crime

  • How the landscape is changing in the light of new legislation and public perceptions

  • We combine the presentation style of The Dark Money Files podcast with interactive challenges and exercises to ensure interest and involvement. 

Due Diligence Investigations

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Our interactive workshop examines a range of topics fundamental to an effective due diligence process both for one off transactions and ongoing relationships on behalf of individuals (natural persons) and companies (legal persons).

The topics covered include:

  • Quantitative and qualitative approach to due diligence

  • The risk based approach, including the nature and measurement of risks

  • Natural person vs legal person – the difference in approach

  • The different types of corporate entity and how each can be used to disguise ownership and control

  • Filings for the different entity types (annual return, PSC statement, annual accounts etc) and their roles

  • Free to access open source data portals that allow for the interrogation of corporate entity structures and the strengths and weaknesses of each

  • Red flags within corporate entity structures, their filings and the individuals associated with them

  • Associated data-sets that can enrich company or individual information

  • Other techniques that can aid open source intelligence due diligence research

The course provides an investigative framework that will be of primary interest to Compliance and AML teams, on-boarding and investigative functions. Specific ‘in-firm’ requirements can be incorporated. 

If you would like a more specialized course and training tailored to your needs, please feel free to send us a form below and we will get back to you with our rates and availability.