AML/CFT Staff Awareness Training
Every reporting institution owes its front line an annual AML/CFT session, and most of them deliver it as a slide deck nobody remembers by Friday. This version works the other way round. It starts with the transactions your staff actually process, shows what laundering looks like when it is hidden inside routine business, and rehearses the one thing an employee is really required to do: recognise something that does not add up and escalate it without alerting the customer.
Programme Agenda
What Money Laundering Looks Like From a Counter
Placement, layering and integration explained through transactions a teller, relationship manager or operations officer would actually see. Why the interesting stage for most staff is the one that looks completely normal.
Terrorism Financing and Why It Is Different
Small amounts, legitimate sources, and the reason a value-based red flag set misses it. Targeted financial sanctions, list screening and what a name match obliges you to do immediately.
Your Obligations Under AMLA
Where the duty comes from, who counts as a reporting institution, and the personal exposure of an employee who ignores what they saw. Record keeping duties in plain terms.
Customer Due Diligence in Daily Work
Identifying and verifying a customer, understanding the purpose of the relationship, and recognising when standard due diligence is not enough. Politically exposed persons and beneficial ownership at the level front line staff meet them.
Red Flags That Actually Matter
Structuring below thresholds, unusual third-party involvement, transactions inconsistent with a stated business, reluctance to provide documents, and rapid movement of funds. Worked through as short scenarios rather than a list.
Escalating: What To Do and What Not To Do
Raising an internal suspicion to the compliance officer, what to write down, and the tipping-off prohibition. Why telling the customer, or a colleague outside the chain, is itself an offence.
After You Escalate
What the compliance officer does next, how a suspicious transaction report reaches Bank Negara's Financial Intelligence and Enforcement Department, and why you may never hear the outcome.
Scenario Practice
Participants work through transactions drawn from their own product set, decide whether to escalate, and defend the call to the group.
Learning Outcomes:
Describe how money is laundered through the products your institution offers
Recognise terrorism financing indicators that value-based red flags miss
State your personal obligations as an employee of a reporting institution
Apply customer due diligence steps and spot when enhanced measures are needed
Identify the red flags most likely to appear in your own role
Escalate an internal suspicion correctly and without tipping off
Understand what happens to a report after it leaves your desk
Duration: 1 Day (8 Hours)
Training Hours: 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Level: Beginner
Training Mode: Physical, Online, or Hybrid
HRD Corp SBL-KHAS Claimable
Certificate of Completion included
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