Course Description:

Compliance expectations continue to rise, but staffing and budgets don’t always follow. This session focuses on where AML programs can find efficiencies without sacrificing effectiveness. We’ll look at ways to simplify onboarding, improve the quality of alerts, align monitoring tools to risk, and tighten up governance documentation. If your team is being asked to do more with less, this session will offer practical ways to keep your program on track.

Instructor: Sharon Blanchette

Course Description:

This training provides a practical overview of Know Your Customer (KYC), Customer Identification Program (CIP), Customer Due Diligence (CDD), and Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) processes for high-risk customers and businesses.

Participants will learn how to identify, assess, and manage elevated risk profiles in accordance with regulatory requirements. The session covers red flags, documentation expectations, and best practices for mitigating financial crime risks associated with high-risk individuals and entities.

Instructor: Justin Muscolino

Course Description:

Money laundering is a global issue that evolves as criminals find new ways to clean illicit funds. In high-risk sectors, these activities are particularly complex, involving three phases to conceal the source of the money. Illicit funds often stem from drug trafficking, theft, organized crime, embezzlement, bribery, and corruption.

Anti-money laundering (AML) laws target these crimes, including market manipulation, illegal trade, public fund corruption, and tax evasion. This training will focus on the unique risks high-risk areas face and the regulations aimed at combating money laundering in these areas.

Instructor: Justin Muscolino

Course Description:

Financial institutions, fintechs, and advisory professionals increasingly face legal demands for information as the IRS and Department of Justice expand their enforcement reach. This session prepares professionals to effectively respond to IRS civil summonses and criminal grand jury subpoenas—two powerful tools used in tax and financial crime investigations.

The course explains the differences in scope, authority, and risk between these mechanisms and provides actionable guidance on document production, protecting privileged communications, and avoiding inadvertent waiver. Attendees will also learn when and how to escalate matters to legal counsel, and the potential consequences of cooperating too quickly—or not at all.

Instructor: Michael DeBlis