Center For Risk Management
Regardless of the industry, companies need to implement compliance programs commensurate with the risks of their business and need to grow their compliance programs in real-time. Responsible innovation means not prioritizing growth over compliance.
– FinCEN Acting Director, Himamauli Das –
Introducing The Center’s Anti-Money Laundering (AML) & Sanctions Compliance Awareness and Readiness Training
and Certification Process for AML & Sanctions Compliance Programs
The Comptegrity Center for Risk Management (the Center) is committed to ensuring organizations understand, and are equipped with the tools necessary to manage various types of compliance risks associated with the ever-changing landscape of laws, regulations and technology.
The Center provides organizations with a reliable approach to demonstrate their efforts to identify, assess and mitigate risks as they grow and evolve, and to develop or enhance effective compliance programs in accordance with regulatory expectations, recognizable standards and evaluation processes.
The Center’s Anti-Money Laundering (AML) & Sanctions Compliance Awareness and Readiness Training
and Certification Process for AML & Sanctions Compliance Programs
and Certification Process for AML & Sanctions Compliance Programs
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Training
Understand applicable laws, potential vulnerabilities to economic crimes, and elements of AML and sanctions programs
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Certification
Four levels of AML and sanctions compliance programs certifications reflecting your organization’s evolving compliance capabilities
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Enhancement
Achieve desired AML and sanctions compliance program maturity for the nature, size and scope of your operations
Address Imminent Risks and Prevent Criminal Abuse
As prosecutions and enforcement intensify, forward-looking organizations of all sizes and growth stages need effective compliance capabilities to avoid criminal abuse, costly penalties, disruption to operations, damaged reputations and possible criminal charges.
Reach Across Multiple Sectors
No organization in any sector is immune to criminal abuse. The Center supports the compliance efforts of for-profit and not-for-profit organizations, including, but not limited to banks and other traditional financial institutions, DeFi, virtual currencies and other digital assets businesses.
Demonstrate AML and Sanctions Compliance
With the increasing importance of AML and sanctions compliance, the needs of both established and growing companies change, and the compliance programs should accurately and appropriately reflect the business model and its operations at any stage.
Access Subject Matter Expertise
As organizations need guidance to develop or enhance their AML and sanctions compliance, the Center provides cost-effective access to subject matter experts with diverse backgrounds, including lawyers, compliance officers, risk managers, auditors and industry experts.
Manage and Mitigate Your Organization’s Risk
AML and Sanctions Compliance
Awareness
Gain an appropriate understanding of applicable laws, potential vulnerabilities of your organization to economic crimes and the elements of AML and sanctions programs that will mitigate exposure to such criminal activity and support compliance with laws.
Readiness
Engage in an immersive hands-on bootcamp and other training to develop and enhance your AML and sanctions compliance efforts, including how to assess risks, and create policies, procedures and controls appropriate for your organization’s activities.
Program Development & Enhancement
Take your organization’s compliance efforts to the next level, assure your AML and sanctions programs adequately reflect the organization’s operations, the ever-changing landscape of enforcement, and incorporate appropriate technological tools.
Program Certification
Progress through four levels of certification to demonstrate the effective development and implementation of your organization’s AML and sanctions compliance programs.
The Importance of Compliance
The Department is committed to rewarding responsible companies and financial institutions that promote ethical corporate culture and invest in effective compliance programs. I urge financial institutions and companies to spend time designing, implementing, and updating their compliance and AML programs to ensure they are effectively detecting and preventing sanctions violations and KYC evasions.
Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Polite, Jr.
AML policies and procedures exist to help financial institutions combat money laundering by stopping criminals from engaging in transactions to disguise the origins of funds connected to illegal activity.
Dow Jones
The purpose of implementing anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (AML/CFT) measures is to stop criminals and terrorists from abusing the financial system. Financial systems and the broader economy are protected from the threats of money laundering and the financing of terrorism and proliferation, thereby strengthening financial sector integrity and contributing to safety and security.
Financial Actions Task Force (FATF)
AML controls, when effectively implemented, mitigate the adverse effects of criminal economic activity and promote integrity and stability in financial markets.
International Monetary Fund
One thing lawyers persistently have to dispel in the enforcement context is that sanctions only apply to banks.
Andrea Gacki, director of the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control
Sanctions screening is a critical part of a firm’s regulatory compliance framework and helps protect businesses from illegally engaging with any sanctioned companies, entities or individuals. In fact, all businesses are obliged to comply with sanctions screening requirements and penalties for breaches can be significant. In addition to customer screening, firms are encouraged to complete transaction screening to identify any payments involving designated individuals or entities.
Dow Jones
Sanctions screening is a critical process for financial institutions to ensure compliance with regulations and prevent money laundering, terrorist financing, and other illicit activities. The process helps protect reputations, prevent financial loss, and strengthens the overall integrity of the global financial system.
Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT)
Though most people don’t think of sanctions, export controls and foreign investment reviews when they think of national security, these tools are key to the U.S. domestic and foreign policy strategy.
Kristen Eichensehr, director of the National Security Law Center at the University of Virginia School of Law