Sibacademy provides bespoke training programs for organisations interested in developing their capabilities in fraud investigation, AML compliance, linguistic matching and business data analytics. From assisting senior management with AML strategy, to discussing investigative techniques with small groups of fraud examiners or teaching data analytics to a full class of investigators, our courses help equip our clients’ financial crime control functions for the specific challenges they face.
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The legal requirements and practical risks surrounding AML efforts can pose a world of unknown challenges for those not working in this area day-to-day, and yet the responsibility for developing a comprehensive strategy for managing these risks must lie with Senior Management.
A clear and effective AML policy is vital to ensure your business is not misused to launder the proceeds of crime or transfer funding for terrorism, and should any infraction occur, not having such a policy would be seen as an aggregating factor in the eyes of the authorities. This course helps Senior Management to focus on the risks that may exist inside their own business and develop an effective approach to minimise their AML risk.
This engaging program takes a tour around the globe, looking at the different cultural, linguistic, legal, geopolitical and physical aspects of AML challenges in different regions. The course challenges assumptions based on domestic norms and provides valuable international insights for those with infrequent exposure to AML cases around the world, or wishing to enhance their knowledge of the challenges of international business.
Our flag ship program, this course is unique in helping those involved in identity screening processes understand what causes false positive and false negative results and how to minimise both. Covering names from all major languages and cultures around this world, this course looks at the key sources of variations in names – including transcription variants, phonetic misspellings, derivative names, typos and structural variations – and shows participants how each source of variation should be handled. The course goes on to look at variations in other characteristics such as dates of birth, countries of origin and addresses.
A key part of the course looks at how to assess and select potential screening software, and how to test a system to ensure the optimum configuration. This is a must for anyone involved in selecting or configuring screening solutions.
The course is accompanied by the book “Linguistic Identity Matching”, which is also available to purchase separately. Click here for more details.
Many investigations are carried out using large and unwieldy spreadsheets, which increase the potential for error and make dealing with relational data unnecessarily complicated. Microsoft Access is a much underused resource in the investigative profession but is invaluable in streamlining the collection of data, safeguarding its integrity, analysing its content and recording conclusions.
This course explains how relational data should be managed and removes the fear-factor from moving beyond a simple spreadsheet, to explain just how easily a professional data investigation can be carried out.