Course Summary

Understanding how financial crime impacts your FinTech business is essential to improving and managing your risk management. Failure to recognize your regulatory obligations can affect your ability to create new customer-centric products and to scale at pace.

What you will learn:
• The basics of financial crime
• Financial crime key words and definitions
• The types of financial crime risks faced by FinTechs
• How compliance roles work together to reduce risk
• How to identify the specific risk management programs
• What an effective due diligence process looks like
• The process for identifying then reporting suspicious activity

You may be early in your compliance career; interested in a compliance related role at a FinTech; or looking to progress to the AML
Intermediate for FinTech certificate.

1. Getting started
Introduction
• Instructions
• Introductory case video
• What would you do
• Feedback
• Learning objectives

2. What is financial crime?
Types of financial crime
• What is financial crime?
• Money laundering
• AML (Case example)
• Terrorist financing
• CFT (Case example)
• Sanctions
• Sanctions (Case example)
• Fraud
• Fraud (Case example)
• Anti-bribery and corruption
• ABC (Case example)
• Tax avoidance vs tax evasion
• Tax avoidance vs tax evasion: Panama Papers (Case example)

Review
• Review questions

3. Risk from financial crime
What is risk?
• Types of risk: Regulatory, legal, financial, reputational
• International regulations and guidance
• Categories of risk: Customer, jurisdiction, product, channel
• Politically exposed person risk and red flags
• Beneficial ownership
• Ultimate beneficial ownership
• Shell company risk and red flags
• Customer risk and red flags
• Customer risk and red flags in FinTech
• Jurisdiction risk and red flags
• Jurisdiction risk and red flags in FinTech
• Product risk and red flags
• Product risk and red flags in FinTech
• Channel risk and red flags
• Risk to FinTech from outsourcing AML controls

Risks specific to your business
• FinTech industry overview
• FinTech risk and red flags
• Revolut (Case example)
• Paris terror attacks (Case example)
• PayPal sanctions violations (Case example)
• YouTrip (Case example)
• FIFA (Case example)
• Charitable organizations (Case example)

Risk-based approach
• Risk-based approach to business
• Controlling risk
• Residual risk equation
• Risk-rating by applying your institution’s policies and tools

Review
• Review questions

4. Compliance roles
Know your role in compliance
• Three lines of defense industry-specific
• Risk-based escalation
• Dual controls
• Independence of the second line
• Role of MLRO
• Audit as the third line of defense

Review
• Review questions

5. Risk management programs
Know Your Customer
• KYC is intended to manage risk
• N26 (Case example)

Transaction monitoring
• Transaction monitoring is intended to manage risk
• Transaction monitoring process
• Typical scenarios that would generate an alert
• Fake investment product (Case example)

Sanctions compliance
• Who imposes sanctions
• Internet search: Sanctions screening
• Transaction monitoring vs name screening
• AMEX Travel Related Services Company (Case example)

Review
• Review questions

6. Due diligence
Research process
• Investigative mindset
• Four research steps
• Levels of due diligence
• CDD for a natural person
• CDD for a legal person

Information sources
• Criteria for selecting standard customer research sources
• If you need more information
• Tipping off

Organizing what you learn
• How much research is reasonably enough?
• Following organization-specific policies and procedures
• Filter what customer information is relevant and important
• Data security and privacy
• Documenting your research
• Customer profile structure and format

Review
• Review questions

7. Actions
Your obligation
• Duty to report
• Suspicious activity escalation process

How your organization might act
• What is a SAR/STR?
• Who writes a SAR in your organization?
• Transaction monitoring and ongoing reviews
• Maintaining an account after unusual activity
• Refusing or terminating a customer

Review
• Review questions

There are no prerequisites to this course.

Pass a 20-question final assessment to receive your certificate.

Following your booking, a confirmation message will be sent to all participants, ensuring you're well-informed of your successful enrollment. Calendar placeholders will also be dispatched to assist you in scheduling your commitments around the course. Rest assured, all course materials and access to necessary labs or platforms will be provided no later than one week before the course begins, allowing you ample time to prepare and engage fully with the learning experience ahead.

Our comprehensive training package includes all the necessary materials and resources to facilitate a full learning experience. Enrollees will be provided with detailed course content, encompassing a wide array of topics to ensure a thorough understanding of the subject matter. Additionally, participants will receive a certificate of completion to recognize their dedication and hard work. It's important to note that while the course fee covers all training materials and experiences, the examination fee for certification is not included but can be purchased separately.

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