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Following on from the hugely successful Financial Crime Masterclass Series launched in 2025 and developed in partnership with Great Chatwell Academy of Learning (GCAL), this renewed series of Masterclasses has been designed exclusively for AFB members and will provide answers to the key operational and technical issues that risk and compliance professionals in foreign banks must address in 2026 and beyond.
Held in-person and delivered by Lee Byrne from AFB’s training partner Great Chatwell Academy of Learning (GCAL), each session is CPD accredited (there is no assessment) and will last for three hours. Lee will be joined by carefully selected senior practitioners to ensure that each Masterclass delivers the information that delegates require to meet the challenge of regulatory compliance and changing criminal landscape. There will be plenty of opportunity for discussion and questions.
This series is designed to assist professionals from compliance and risk functions. Financial Crime professionals, MLROs and DMLROs, line two and line three risk management officers (including Internal Auditors), those with quality assurance responsibilities, Board members who chair risk committees, customer due diligence analysts, and transaction monitoring officers.
These courses are relevant for previous attendees of the AFB Financial Crime Diploma, all content has been updated to include the latest practice.
AFB Financial Crime Masterclass: Mitigating Trade Based Money Laundering (TBML) in Trade Finance
This masterclass is designed to provide risk and compliance professionals with the knowledge and skills awareness to identify and manage financial crime risks in trade finance activity. It will provide a comprehensive update on managing TBML risks so firms can continue to facilitate legitimate trade while meeting regulatory expectations.
Attendees will gain enhanced confidence to identify higher-risk activity and apply practical, risk-based and proportionate systems and controls to identify, detect and respond to this activity in trade relationships and transactions.
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AFB Financial Crime Masterclass: Suspicious Activity Reporting in Practice: Detect, Decide, Disclose
A masterclass designed to guide and inform AML/CFT and financial crime professionals who are required to assess, investigate and make decision on whether to report Knowledge and Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) to the local financial intelligence unit in full compliance with UK legal and regulatory expectations and according to the reporting guidelines of the NCA.
This is a highly interactive session, providing delegates with the opportunity to benchmark current policies, procedures and knowledge with peers to confirm good practice and identify opportunities to enhance performance.
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AFB Financial Crime Masterclass: Cybercrime Managing Converging Threats in AML Compliance
An interactive masterclass designed to provide financial crime professionals with the knowledge and awareness to identify, mitigate, and manage cyber-enabled risks.
This masterclass will provide learners with practical guidance on how to manage cyber-enabled crime typologies (e.g. account takeover, mule networks, synthetic identities, ransomware-linked laundering) and mapping attack paths into onboarding, payments and investigations, assessing firm vulnerabilities, determining when cyber activity triggers suspicion and a SAR, and documenting risk decisions so assessed risks reflect actual business operations.
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AFB Financial Crime Masterclass: Correspondent Banking (Mitigating the Risks in Respondent Relationships)
This masterclass is designed to provide attendees who manage respondent relationships with greater confidence in assessing the risks in new and existing relationships, and to identify higher risk relationships and transactions.
The masterclass will provide a comprehensive summary and update on how to manage risks so that members can continue to provide respondent services to branches, subsidiaries, and parent groups in overseas territories. Delegates will be supported with practical notes, working templates and risk assessment exercises to ensure that the session is highly interactive and outcomes focused.
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AFB Financial Crime Masterclass: Managing Sanctions Risks (Identifying the Risks in Transactions and Trade)
This Masterclass has been designed for all risk and compliance employees who wish to develop an advanced understanding of how to manage financial and non-financial sanctions risks with an emphasis on assessing and mitigating the risks of sanctions evasion techniques.
The course, developed with the assistance of a former enforcement officer from the US Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), offers a helpful update on sanctions evasion techniques, and tips on how to manage risks, and meet regulatory requirements of UK, EU, and USA sanctions authorities.
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