Training Bites

Counter Terrorist Financing

 

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Counter Terrorist Financing, or ‘CTF’ can tend to be the poor relation of Financial Crime training. The assumption tends to be that no, or very little useful training can be undertaken, due to the difficulty in detecting the relatively small amounts used to fund terrorist attacks, within the financial system.

This is only partly true. in one sense, in the absence of other information, no amount of vigilance or systems expertise is likely to identify that a $1,000 payment is destined for Terrorist purposes. But these payments are often only half the story. At the back end of a lethal terrorist finance chain can be ownership structures, networks, transactions and asset holdings which financial services staff need to be able to recognize.

Click above to access one of Lessons Learned’s award-winning audio-visual slideshows dealing with financing strategies used by terrorist groups.

Workplace Ethics

 

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Lessons Learned has developed a wide range of materials for training on workplace ethics issues and has delivered classroom-based and e-learning programmes on related topics to both private and public sector institutions. Issues of compliance with codes of conduct and code of ethics are, for many people, difficult topics that can raise a number of problematic issues, including potential conflicts between individuals’ personal beliefs and values and the behavioural standards and norms with which they are expected to comply in their work. Our training methods have proven effective in enabling diverse groups with widely different backgrounds and experiences to feel comfortable discussing such issues and learning about their legal rights and responsibilities, both at work and outside it.

We make full use of media-rich materials including video case studies and computer-based quizzes and activities to stimulate discussion around key issues. Click above to view an example of a video case study activity. In this case, the issue is discrimination. The activity comprises a series of short videoed pieces in which different individuals describe different events and seek an opinion from the training audience with regard to whether or not what has happened is lawful and/or acceptable. The purpose of the activity is to raise participants’ awareness and understanding of what constitutes discrimination and of the potential effects of discrimination on those individuals who experience it. The videoed pieces can be used as part of a facilitated group discussion exercise, and they can also be linked to computer-based question and answer routines and used as an e-learning activity.

Call us on +44 (0)1531 630110 to find out more about this type of training and how it might be used for training in your organization.

Anti-Money Laundering

 

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Lessons Learned has many years’ experience in designing, developing and implementing global anti-money laundering training programmes, often across multiple jurisdictions. Our techniques are innovative, effective and have been proven in a wide range of different financial institutions. With an emphasis on developing people’s practical skill (e.g., in suspicion recognition) as well as their knowledge and awareness of relevant law, our programmes are popular with learning audiences and compliance professionals alike.

Click above for an explanation of just one of many practical techniques that we have used with our client organizations to make a real difference to AML awareness and compliance. The technique is an account analysis exercise, in which participants study and discuss a selection of different account histories. The purpose of the exercise is to raise participants’ awareness and understanding of different suspicious activity indicators, thus enhancing their ability to recognise what is and is not suspicious. We have developed quite a ‘bank’ of account histories, covering FATF’s suspicious activity indicators as well as a number of other indicators identified by different regulators around the world. The activity can be used for induction training and general awareness training, but it is also suited to the needs of transaction-handling staff who need to be aware of suspicious activity patterns, as they go about processing day-to-day transactions or analyzing reports from transaction monitoring software.

Call us on +44 (0)1531 630110 if you are interested in the technique and how it might be used within your organization.