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Preparation Course: Anti-Money Laundering Specialist

Accreditation Number: 115322358

2025

Last updated December 2025

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This training program aims to familiarize participants with anti-money laundering methods, legal aspects related to it, identify the elements of money laundering crimes, combat them, discover suspicious transactions, recognize their indicators, and report them. It also covers the obligations that financial professionals must fulfill, the risks of negative impacts of money laundering transactions, and the importance of monitoring them, as well as understanding the penalties for violating anti-money laundering laws.

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Define money laundering and identify its legal aspects.

• Understand the elements of money laundering crimes.

• Recognize the stages of money laundering.

• Detect suspicious transactions, identify their indicators, and report them.

• Understand the obligations that financial professionals must fulfill.

• Identify banking transactions that can be used for money laundering.

• Understand the negative impacts of money laundering transactions and the importance of monitoring them.

• Learn the penalties for individuals violating anti-money laundering laws.

Course Curriculum

4 Lectures

Module 1 - Risks of Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing and Their Methods

Overview.
Banks and other deposit-taking institutions.
Non-bank financial institutions.
Non-financial businesses and professions.
International business activities.
Risks related to new payment products and services.
Companies used to facilitate illicit financing.
Terrorism financing.

Module 2 - International Standards for Anti-Money Laundering / Counter-Terrorism Financing

Financial Action Task Force.
Basel Committee on Banking Supervision.
European Union Directives on Money Laundering.
Regional bodies like the Financial Action Task Force.
Other influential bodies.
Key legislative and regulatory initiatives in the United States.

Module 3 - Compliance Programs for Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing

Risk assessment for anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing.
Anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing programs.
Know Your Customer (KYC).
Monitoring and examination.
Red flags for money laundering and terrorism financing.

Module 4 - Conducting Investigations and Responding

Investigations initiated by financial institutions.
Investigations initiated by law enforcement agencies.
Collaboration with law enforcement agencies during an investigation against a financial institution.