Compliance and Anti-Money Laundering (AML)

Compliance and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) is a five-day senior compliance course delivered by Mars Training Centre in the world's financial-crime supervision centres — London, Geneva, Dubai, New York and Manama — designed for compliance officers, money laundering reporting officers (MLROs) and senior executives responsible for protecting their organisations from financial crime.

Financial crime risk has intensified. Sanctions regimes have expanded, beneficial-ownership rules have tightened, and the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) standards now anchor an interconnected global compliance environment that touches almost every cross-border transaction. The cost of getting compliance wrong — in monetary fines, regulatory restriction and reputational damage — has rarely been higher. Boards now expect their compliance leaders to do more than administer rules: they expect them to lead.

This programme equips senior compliance and AML practitioners with a working command of the international principles that govern anti-money laundering, sanctions, counter-terrorist financing and broader regulatory compliance. It is delivered in the world's financial-crime supervision centres — London, Geneva, Dubai, New York and Manama — by senior British practitioners drawn from the Mars panel.

What You Will Learn

By the end of this programme, you will be able to:

• Apply the FATF Recommendations and risk-based approach to your compliance programme.
• Design and lead a customer due diligence and enhanced due diligence framework.
• Build a sanctions and screening programme that withstands regulatory scrutiny.
• Lead suspicious activity identification, escalation and reporting in your organisation.
• Evaluate the maturity of an AML programme against recognised benchmarks.
• Embed financial-crime risk into enterprise risk and the three-lines model.
• Communicate compliance risk to the board and senior management.
• Lead and develop a compliance and financial-crime team at senior level.

How You Will Benefit

You will leave with the senior practitioner's command of compliance and AML leadership and a personal plan to strengthen your programme, along with a Mars Certificate of Completion.

Your organisation will gain a compliance leader who can defend the business from financial-crime exposure, satisfy supervisors, and build a programme proportionate to the real risks the business faces.

Who This Programme Is For

This programme is designed for senior compliance and financial-crime professionals, including:

• Heads of compliance and chief compliance officers
• Money laundering reporting officers (MLROs) and deputies
• Heads of financial crime and sanctions
• Senior compliance managers preparing for leadership roles
• Risk and audit leaders with financial-crime oversight
• General counsel and senior legal advisers in regulated firms
• Senior executives in banking, insurance, asset management and corporate-services firms
• Public-sector officials with anti-financial-crime responsibilities

The seniority floor is senior manager and above in a compliance, risk, audit or legal function. Case work is drawn from a range of sectors and jurisdictions, with at least one Middle East or European case each day.