Research and Markets: Anti-Money Laundering for Managers & Compliance Officers

Dublin - Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c22556) has announced the addition of E-Learning Course - Anti-Money Laundering for Managers & Compliance Officers to their offering

This course is targeted at managers and compliance officers who need a comprehensive knowledge of AML best practices.

Money Laundering is an area that is gaining increasing attention. In the wake of increasing terrorism and organized crime, investigators focus on how such groups finance their activities and are aiming to cut off access to these funds.

Banks and financial institutions are now being asked or forced to significantly increase their efforts to combat Money Laundering, which requires increased training of their staff to better understand, identify, and alert authorities when they see evidence of Money Laundering.

Moreover, regulations are slowly coming into effect in most countries, sometimes with extra territorial jurisdictions which increases the risks of liabilities on organizations both from a financial and a reputation stand point. With the typically large number of staff working for banks,

E-Learning provides the banking industry with a tool to help them not only train their large numbers of employees better, quicker, and more efficiently, but also allows them to do this more cost effectively.

This course is targeted at all employees and contractors in a financial institution. The introductory course is aimed to create basic awareness at all employees. The front office and back office versions are targeted at the customer facing and back office employees respectively. The AML for managers course is targeted at those managers who need an in depth review.

The anti-money laundering course aims to

- Describe Money Laundering and the challenges and risks involved in combating it
- Recognize the key stages in money laundering and the principal techniques used by money launderers
- Gain insight in how to establish and use customer profiles
- Identify and report on suspicious activities
- Articulate the objectives and principal elements of a "Know Your Customer" policy
- Describe the key processes and technologies to fight money laundering

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c22556

Laura Wood
Senior Manager
Research and Markets
press@researchandmarkets.com
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