Terrorist Financing: What are the Risks?
| Duration | 1 Day |
| Level | Advanced |
| Suitable for | Managers with responsibility for financial crime, risk managers, MLROs and MLCOs, managers with operational responsibility for risk control functions and internal audit staff. |
| CPD hours | 6 hours |
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Course Content
- What are the risks?
- How do the risks manifest themselves?
- Terrorist financing and money laundering compared
- Why would a terrorist financier utilise offshore products and services?
- Sources of terrorist financing
- The abuse of NGOs and charities
- Informal banking systems
- Funding of 9/11: a case study
- Funding of Madrid: a case study
- Layering through NGOs: a case study
- Practical measures to prevent exposure
- Understanding UN Sanctions and OFAC Regulations
Learning Outcomes
Having attended this course, delegates will:
- Identify the key differences between terrorist financing and money laundering
- Recognise the role played by NGOs and charities in terrorist financing
- Investigate meaningful improvements to internal controls and reduce the risk of exposure to relationships with terrorist funders, terrorist sympathisers and facilitators
