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Thinking
about Crime Limited offers a range of services to help
you to prevent and forestall money laundering, and therefore meet your legal
and regulatory obligations and protect your
institution from infiltration by criminals.
The three main services are:
And whichever service you use, I will encourage you
to stay in touch with Thinking about Crime
Limited, to contact me whenever you wish to discuss
money laundering issues that may be vexing you or
training or policy issues that may be worrying you.
Training
How well do your staff know their AML stuff? A quick
quiz could reveal all....
Has it been a while since you trained them? Are you sure
that they have remembered the key information? Try them
(or yourself!) with a quick 12-question multiple choice quiz,
free from Thinking about Crime Limited.
For your free electronic copy of the quick quiz (and answers, to
spare your
blushes), please
email Susan with your name, company and details and
specify which version of the quiz you would like (UK,
Guernsey, Jersey, Isle of Man or non-specific).
I
believe wholeheartedly that good training is the key to
any institution's anti-money laundering regime. You
can have the best policies and procedures in the world,
but they will be worthless if your staff do not know about
them, understand them and know how and when to apply them.
Training
- of all staff, from the most junior to the most senior
and not forgetting the compliance staff too - is a vital part of staff development and
can ensure that:
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your staff
are able to recognise and react appropriately to
suspected money laundering - and therefore form an
effective first line of defence for your institution |
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your
compliance officers are kept up-to-date with all the
latest developments in money laundering techniques -
which helps them to be more effective in
their relationship with the legal authorities and more professional in the wider
performance of their role |
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your
organisation will benefit from the "anti-fraud
bonus" of being able to recognise activities
which are intended to defraud you |
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you will be
able to satisfy both regulator and law enforcement, if you were to
inadvertently become involved in an investigation,
that you had taken the law seriously and were not
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Thinking
About Crime Limited can provide a range of tailor-made
courses, from a simple one hour refresher training lecture
to a full multi-day money
laundering training and awareness programme.
Most clients opt for half-day or full-day sessions.
Every
single training session is individually designed for, and
in collaboration with, the client. Training can be designed to meet the requirements
of any business sector, in any jurisdiction in the world.
Courses can be conducted in-house or at an external
location, and at times to suit the client.
In addition, I
offer a range of other training services, such as standard
feedback forms, post-training support, and a post-training
report which can form part of the Money Laundering
Reporting Officer's annual report (as required by UK
legislation).
If you would
like to know more about how I design training for clients, or to see a "
starter menu" of anti-money laundering
training modules, please email
Susan.
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Policy
and procedure review and redrafting
Internal
anti-money laundering (and related) policies and
procedures should be regularly reviewed to ensure
that they are both compliant and effective.
Thinking
about Crime Limited can look at your current policies and
procedures, and advise you on:
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whether
they meet the legal and regulatory standards which
govern your institution,
and
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whether
they are effective - i.e. whether your staff can
understand them and know how and when to apply them. |
This crucial service has the
advantage of providing an objective assessment of your
policies and procedures (which may add weight to your
efforts to make changes) and also frees up in-house
compliance time which would otherwise be spent on this
process.
If you would like to know more about
the policy and procedure review and redrafting service,
please email
Susan.
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Research
There is an almost
overwhelming wealth of information about money
laundering, financial crime and related compliance issues.
Keeping up with developments around the world is a
full-time job – one of the jobs taken on by Thinking
about Crime Limited.
I conduct
research on a daily basis and write regular columns for trade publications and
contribute to the national and international press and
other media. I
produce a monthly e-newsletter for my clients. And I
speak at conferences around
the world, alerting audiences to the dangers of money
laundering.
If you would like
to know more about these research, writing and speaking
services, please email
Susan.
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