Financial Sanctions
30 minutes
Full course
Financial Services
Go behind the scenes at a fictional firm to explore some of the misconceptions and poor practices that can lead to breaches of the financial sanctions regime.
Description
The UK's financial sanctions regime restricts access to financial resources and assets for individuals and entities that engage in criminal activities, including terrorism. In this course you'll go behind the scenes at Financeum (a fictional firm) to explore some of the misconceptions and poor practices that can lead to breaches of the financial sanctions regime.
Features
- State the purpose of financial sanctions
- Describe who are targets and why
- Describe how financial sanctions are imposed and enforced
- State that financial sanctions have international reach
- State who must comply with financial sanctions
- State the consequences for non-compliance
- Describe the importance of due diligence for compliance
- Describe red flags in due diligence
- State the need for sanctions screening
- State that there can be multiple sanctions lists