Money Laundering is an area that is gaining increasing attention unfortunately.

In the wake of increasing terrorism and organized crime, investigators focus on how such groups finance their activities and are aiming to cut off access to these funds.

Banks and financial institutions are now being asked or forced to significantly increase their efforts to combat money laundering, which requires increased training of their staff to better understand, identify, and alert authorities when they see evidence of money laundering.

Moreover, regulations are slowly coming into effect in most countries, sometimes with extra territorial jurisdictions which increases the risks of liabilities on organizations both from a financial and a reputation stand point.

With the typically large number of staff working for banks, eLearning provides the banking industry with a tool to help them not only train large numbers of employees better, quicker, and more efficiently, but also allows them to do this more cost effectively.

This effective elearning and online training program could help organizations impart basic training on anti-money laundering and create awareness at various levels in the organization.

The courses are designed to be very interactive and appealing.

The family of courses is targeted at all employees and contractors in a financial institution, including banks, credit unions, savings and loans, mortgage companies, stock brokers and more. The introductory course is aimed to create basic awareness for all employees.

The front office and back office versions are targeted at the customer facing and back office employees respectively.

The Anti-Money Laundering Basics for managers course is targeted at those managers who need an in depth review.

The Anti-Money Laundering elearning basics course objectives include:

- Describe Money Laundering and the challenges and risks involved in combating it

- Recognize the key stages in money laundering and the principal techniques used by money launderers

- Articulate the objectives and principal elements of a "Know Your Customer" policy

The elearning course also has these sections for the student:

Introduction to Money Laundering

Stages of Money Laundering

Know Your Customer Basics

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