Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Combating Financing of Terrorism (CFT): A Comprehensive Training Programme to Engender Employees’ Knowledge of their AML/CFT Obligations

Programme Objective

To provide a robust, comprehensive and leading practice insight into the world of AML /CFT and Regulatory Compliance. By the end of the programme each participant will be able to:

  • Know the legal and regulatory frameworks guiding AML/CFT in Nigeria
  • Be able to define money laundering and terrorist financing, as well as learn the stages of money laundering
  • Gain insights into the relationship between money laundering and terrorist financing
  • Explore FATF, MLPA and CBN’s pronouncement on CDD, EDD, PEP, threshold reporting, STR, recordkeeping, reliance on third party and group entity
  • Understand who a beneficial owner or ultimate beneficial owner is
  • Explore the money laundering offences and predicate offences
  • Gain insight into the concept of mutual evaluation
  • Gain insight into the concepts of STRs, CTRs, red-flags, and other reporting requirements, as well as record keeping and retention
  • Learn how to sight, notarise and certify KYC documents and which to recommend to your client at any point in time
  • Learn what monitoring and ongoing monitoring on customers’ accounts and transactions mean
  • Understand the acceptable means of identity (documentary evidence of identity) and proof of address (documentary evidence of address)
  • Appreciate the objective of financial inclusion and the role of tiered KYC

 

Programme Coverage

  • Legal and regulatory frameworks guiding AML/CFT in Nigeria
  • Introduction to money laundering and terrorist financing
  • The risk-based approach to anti-money laundering
  • FATF pronouncements on CDD and EDD
  • MLPA pronouncements on CDD and EDD
  • Ongoing CDD Measures to be undertaken by FIs
  • EDD measures to be undertaken by FIs
  • EDD measures to be undertaken where the customer is a PEP
  • Simplified due diligence (SDD) measures where lower risks are identified
  • Due diligence to be carried out on employees (Know Your Employees – KYE)
  • Prohibition of accounts and relationships
  • Transaction reporting
  • Record-keeping and retention
  • Money laundering and terrorist financing “red flags”
  • Mutual evaluation
  • Practical demonstration of how to sight, notarise and certify KYC documents
  • Protection for employees that report suspicious transactions and activities
  • Case studies and discussions

Who Should Attend?

  • All employees
  • Front-line and customer facing employees of financial institutions
  • Client engagement employees
  • AML and Compliance Officers and professional
  • Internal auditors
  • Regulators

Duration: 1 day (In-house/In-plant only)

Date: As agreed with our client

Programme fee: As negotiated

Key benefits: Improved employees’ AML/CFT skills, programme materials and certificate of participation