This course emphasizes monitoring, detecting, reporting and prevention of money laundering. It explores the foundations of AML, national and international laws and regulations, conducting and supporting investigation processes, and compliance, sanctions and regulatory developments. Students will develop analytical and practical skills of examining failures/vulnerabilities of the AML system which will help build an effective AML compliance system.
This course is designed to provide students with important components of AML risk governance structure, essentials of AML risk-based approach, practical skills of how to build a country level and financial sectoral level risk assessment report, and how to manage the residual money laundering risk.
The 9/11 terrorist attacks brought significant financial and security challenges to policymakers for the formulation of policy solutions for countering terrorism. The governmental efforts, aka treasury war, against terrorist financing made counterterrorism financing an essential part of the AML field. This course is designed to provide students with the knowledge of how terrorism works, how terrorist organizations move their funds, and how to build an effective CTF compliance regime.
To deal with the new complexities of cryptocurrency (its usage and transaction, and identify, investigate, and prevent money laundering risk emerged from it), new practical skills and expertise about cryptocurrency and blockchain technology should be developed. This course is designed to provide students with essential concepts of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology, and additional knowledge, skills, expertise, and perspective of how to develop an effective AML compliance program to manage cryptocurrency risks.