About This Event
“Follow the money faster than the people trying to hide it.”
A practical five-day programme on the money-laundering and terrorism-financing risks central bank and supervisory staff face. You will move from the FATF standards and national risk assessment through risk-based supervision, typologies and enforcement, finishing with a supervisory action plan built for your own jurisdiction.
What You'll Explore
A risk-based supervisory action plan tailored to your jurisdiction
An institutional ML/TF risk-scoring template for your supervised sector
A typology casebook covering trade, mobile money and virtual assets
An on-site inspection checklist for CDD and beneficial-ownership controls
A readiness self-assessment mapped to the FATF Immediate Outcomes
Who Should Attend
Open to all qualifying staff, particularly: AML/CFT Supervisors, Bank Examiners, Compliance Heads, FIU Analysts, Legal Counsel, Financial Stability Staff.
Why This Course Matters
Risk-Based Supervision
The FATF standards expect supervisors to focus effort where the risk is highest, not spread it evenly. That shift lets a small supervisory team cover a large sector without missing the institutions that matter most.
Typologies in Practice
Real laundering and terrorism-financing cases show how criminals exploit banks, mobile money and trade. Seeing the pattern once in a case study is how your examiners spot it next time in a live file.
Mutual Evaluation Ready
Assessors judge effectiveness through Immediate Outcomes, not just laws on paper. Evidence of working supervision is what keeps a jurisdiction off the grey list and protects correspondent banking lines.
Programme
Day 1
FATF standards, national risk assessment & legal framework
You will map the FATF Recommendations onto your national framework and learn how a national risk assessment sets priorities, so every supervisory decision you make later traces back to identified risk.
Day 2
Customer due diligence, beneficial ownership & PEPs
You will work through customer due diligence, beneficial-ownership verification and politically exposed persons, learning where banks most often cut corners and how examiners test whether controls actually work.
Day 3
Typologies: trade, mobile money, virtual assets & TF
You will analyse real typologies across trade-based laundering, mobile money, virtual assets and terrorism financing, building the pattern recognition that turns an unusual transaction into a credible lead.
Day 4
Risk-based supervision, inspections & sanctions
You will design a risk-based supervisory cycle, from institutional risk scoring to on-site inspection plans and proportionate sanctions, the toolkit assessors look for when they test supervisory effectiveness.
Day 5
Mutual evaluation readiness & supervisory action plan
You will assemble a supervisory action plan for your jurisdiction and defend it against assessor-style questioning on the Immediate Outcomes, the same scrutiny a mutual evaluation team will apply.
Standards & Faculty Benchmark
FATF Recommendations & Methodology
The global AML/CFT standard and the assessment methodology used in every mutual evaluation.
Basel Committee guidelines on ML/TF risk
Sound management of money-laundering and terrorism-financing risks within supervised banks.
Egmont Group Principles for FIUs
Standards for financial intelligence units and the secure exchange of information between them.
Mutual evaluation teams assess your jurisdiction against the FATF Methodology, and correspondent banks read the results. Training against the same standards means your supervisory practice produces the evidence assessors ask for, rather than a scramble to assemble it later.
Is This Right for You?
- ☑You supervise, examine or advise banks on AML/CFT controls
- ☑Your institution faces a mutual evaluation or follow-up review
- ☑You need practical supervisory tools, not a legal overview
Good to Know
Pitched at practitioners with some exposure to supervision or compliance; no prior AML/CFT specialism is assumed. You leave with a risk-based supervisory action plan for your jurisdiction and a typology casebook your examiners can use straight away.
The Bottom Line
Go back to your desk with a supervisory plan that finds real risk and stands up when the assessors arrive.
Recommended For
Open to all qualifying staff, particularly: AML/CFT Supervisors, Bank Examiners, Compliance Heads, FIU Analysts, Legal Counsel, Financial Stability Staff.