This course will introduce you to the importance of anti-money laundering and counter terrorist financing within gambling. It will explore the regulatory approach towards money laundering within the gaming industry and will provide you with a clear understanding of how gambling is used to launder criminal proceeds and the methods used to assess and combat the risks.
This course will introduce you to the importance of anti-money laundering and counter terrorist financing within gambling. It will explore the regulatory approach towards money laundering within the gaming industry and will provide you with a clear understanding of how gambling is used to launder criminal proceeds and the methods used to assess and combat the risks.
The main learning outcomes of the course will be;
To understand what money laundering and terrorist financing is, why the gambling industry is so attractive to criminals and the three stages of money laundering.
To gain an overview of regulatory and legislative concepts that govern the way in which the gambling industry responds to money laundering risk, what the risk based approach is and what are some of the key risk indicators of money laundering in online and land-based gambling
To be able to explain the different types of money laundering risks within gambling and how present and future risks can assessed
To recognise how effective policies, procedures and processes can mitigate money laundering risk within a gambling business and the skills needed to be a competent AML professional.
To learn how culture and governance can influence and help establish a compliance-forward organisation and staff
In this course, we’re going to go through some important concepts, like money laundering, terrorist financing, the Risk Based Approach and we’re going to unravel and review some examples of high risk scenarios, like Politically Exposed Persons and sanctioned individuals, all in relation to how they can impact your organisation.
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The purpose of this unit if to explain the key concepts of liquidity and value transfer with regard to gambling and describe why the gaming industry is so attractive to money launderers
The purpose of this unit is to express the nature and application of the risk-based approach within the gambling industry and outline a number of different methodologies to assess money laundering risk.
The purpose of this unit is to contrast customer onboarding processes for land-based and online operators, recognise source of wealth and source of funds considerations and relate issues concerning politically exposed and designated persons.
The purpose of this unit is to explain some of the key challenges facing the industry and describe some of the tools being developed to better understand and respond to these challenges. We are also going to do a summary of everything we learned in this course and the new skills you learned.
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