How Criminals Abuse Offshore Structures

How Criminals Abuse Offshore Structures
Duration Half Day
Level Intermediate
Suitable for course is designed to help all senior staff, MLROs, MLCOs and compliance officers with their implementation of the requirements of the Money Laundering Order and AML Handbook.
CPD hours 3 hours
Cost
  • £125.00
Dates

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Course Content

 

  • Offshore companies and corporate services analysed

 

  • Offshore trusts and trustee services analysed

 

  • The criticality of understanding commercial rationale

 

  • AML trust and company vulnerabilities

 

  • Examples of abuse

 

  • Vulnerabilities of private banking

 

  • Vulnerabilities of correspondent accounts

 

  • Vulnerabilities of SPVs

 

  • Vulnerabilities of funds

 

  • Case studies

 

 

Learning Outcomes

 

Having attended this course, delegates will:

 

  • Have an enhanced awareness of how traditional offshore structures, together with new financial products, are vulnerable to criminal abuse

 

  • Be able to identify trigger events and procedural weaknesses to assist in effective risk management