Financial Crime Compliance and Environmental Money Laundering Risks

Course overview

Environmental crime has developed into a significant financial-crime concern, generating proceeds that may be integrated into legitimate financial and commercial systems through money laundering techniques. Institutions may therefore face environmental money laundering risks through customers, companies, trade transactions, commodities, intermediaries and cross-border financial activity.

This five-day programme examines the intersection between financial crime compliance and environmental money laundering risks, equipping participants to identify exposure, conduct risk assessments, strengthen KYC and transaction-monitoring controls, and recognise financial indicators associated with environmental crime.

What you will be able to do

• Explain environmental money laundering risks
• Understand major environmental crime markets and financial flows
• Identify sectors and activities vulnerable to environmental money laundering
• Conduct environmental financial-crime risk assessments
• Identify relevant customer, transactional and geographic risks
• Apply enhanced due diligence to higher-risk relationships
• Identify environmental-crime financial indicators
• Strengthen transaction monitoring and suspicious activity detection
• Assess corporate and beneficial ownership risks
• Identify trade and cross-border risks
• Develop appropriate compliance controls
• Strengthen environmental financial-crime reporting and escalation

Who should attend

• AML/CFT compliance officers
• MLROs
• Financial crime risk professionals
• KYC officers
• Transaction monitoring personnel
• Financial intelligence analysts
• Bank and financial-sector professionals
• Regulators and supervisors
• Environmental enforcement personnel
• Customs and trade-risk professionals
• Internal auditors
• Investigators

Course outline

Fees are per participant in US dollars and cover tuition, course materials and your certificate. Travel and accommodation are not included.