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Anti-Money Laundering for Customer Facing Teams - Get the Required Fundamentals with this New E-Learning Course.


DUBLIN Dublin, city, Republic of Ireland
Dublin, Irish Baile Átha Cliath, county borough (1991 pop. 915,516), Leinster, capital of the Republic of Ireland, on Dublin Bay at the mouth of the Liffey River.
, Ireland Ireland, Irish Eire (âr`ə) [to it are related the poetic Erin and perhaps the Latin Hibernia], island, 32,598 sq mi (84,429 sq km), second largest of the British Isles.  -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c27306) has announced the addition of E-Learning (Electronic-LEARNING) An umbrella term for providing computer instruction (courseware) online over the public Internet, private distance learning networks or inhouse via an intranet. See CBT.  Course - Anti-Money Laundering Anti-money laundering ("AML") is a term mainly used in the financial and legal industries to describe the legal controls that require financial institutions and other regulated entities to prevent or report money laundering activities.  for Customer Facing Teams to their offering.

The course is training customer-facing teams on the required fundamentals of AML AML - A Manufacturing Language  for their working environment.

Money Laundering The process of taking the proceeds of criminal activity and making them appear legal.

Laundering allows criminals to transform illegally obtained gain into seemingly legitimate funds.
 is an area that is gaining increasing attention. In the wake of increasing terrorism and organized crime, investigators focus on how such groups finance their activities and are aiming to cut off access to these funds.

Banks and financial institutions are now being asked or forced to significantly increase their efforts to combat Money Laundering, which requires increased training of their staff to better understand, identify, and alert authorities when they see evidence of Money Laundering.

Moreover, regulations are slowly coming into effect in most countries, sometimes with extra territorial jurisdictions Territorial jurisdiction in United States law refers to a court's power over events and persons within the bounds of a particular geographic territory. If a court does not have territorial jurisdiction over the events or persons within it, then the court cannot bind the defendant  which increases the risks of liabilities on organizations both from a financial and a reputation stand point.

With the typically large number of staff working for banks, E-Learning provides the banking industry with a tool to help them not only train their large numbers of employees better, quicker, and more efficiently, but also allows them to do this more cost effectively.

Target Audience:

The family of courses is targeted at all employees and contractors in a financial institution.

The introductory course is aimed to create basic awareness at all employees. The front office and back office versions are targeted at the customer facing and back office employees respectively. The AML for managers course is targeted at those managers who need an in depth review.

The anti-money laundering course aims to

--Describe Money Laundering and the challenges and risks involved in combating it

--Gain insight in how to establish and use customer profiles

--Identify and report on suspicious activities

--Articulate the objectives and principal elements of a "Know Your Customer" policy

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c27306
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