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AML/CTF & KYC: The Management of High-Risk Clients

AML/CTF & KYC: The Management of High-Risk Clients

Dates

  • November 2026
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    Delivered Online
    €150 - €270
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Highlights

  • Live Online

  • 6 CPD Units | 6 Hours

  • HRDA Subsidised

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Participants will receive access to the recorded sessions of the course.

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Course Overview 

There is no business endeavour without taking risks. So, this does not pose a question about not taking risks, but about which risks are worth taking and which risks are manageable. In order to know which risks are worth taking, professionals and their organisations need to have a clear view and approach.

Regulators do not expect organisations to not take risks or to avoid high risks. But they expect them to have a robust risk assessment and apply a risk-based approach. Furthermore, they expect professionals and their organisations to have a well-documented risk appetite and a zero-risk tolerance for financial crime-related risks.

High risk customers are not criminals, however, their overall situation poses a higher risk for organisation. This course will provide professionals with an overview of the most important topics and provide best practices. A number of real case studies will be discussed during the course to illustrate how the ineffective management of high risk customers led to regulatory fines and reputational risks.

Training Objectives

By the end of the programme, participants will:

  • Understand what risk means and how it is assessed especially in the context of high-risk clients

  • Be able to apply a risk-based approach in KYC for high-risk clients

  • Understand risk ownership of client-related risks

  • Learn about best practices to handle high-risk customers

  • Apply their new-found skills in near to real scenarios

Training Outline

  • What is risk?

  • ML/TF risk assessment for high-risk clients

  • Risk appetite and risk tolerance

  • Risk strategies for high-risk clients

  • Customer risk rating methodology (CRRM)

  • High risk factors

  • EDD

  • Customer-risk ownership

  • Client-related metrics and controls

  • De-risking

Who Should Attend

  • Money Laundering Reporting Officers (MLROs)

  • AML Officers

  • Compliance Officers

  • KYC analysts

  • Front office staff dealing with high-risk clients (e.g. wealth management, investment advise)

  • Management of obliged entities

  • Internal/external auditors

  • Consultants

  • In-house counsel

  • Investment specialists

  • Wealth management company staff: on-boarding and other professionals up to Executive level

  • CFO's

Training Style

  • The course takes a thorough and practical delivery approach. It uses presentations, skills, interactive group activities, multi-directional discussions and case studies which differ in involvement and complexity.

  • Learning tools will be introduced that will proof to be highly valuable practical use in the organisation.

CPD Recognition

This programme may be approved for up to 6 CPD units in Financial Regulation and AML. Eligibility criteria and CPD Units are verified directly by your association, regulator or other bodies which you hold membership.

This training course may be approved as an external activity under the new ACAMS recertification category ”non-ACAMS credits” for up to 6 CPD units. Eligibility criteria and CPD Units are verified directly by the Association of Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS). To read more about the non-ACAMS credits policies and eligibility criteria please click here.

In-house Training

For groups within the same organisation, this course may be customized to meet any specific needs and delivered in-house.

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Facilitators

  • Holger Pauco Dirscherl

    Holger Pauco Dirscherl

    Holger Pauco-Dirscherl is an experienced and passionate Senior Financial Crime Prevention Professional with a unique blend of international knowledge, expertise and experience and fluent in English together with a good reputation in the national and international Financial Crime Prevention field. He holds an MBA from The Open University Business School and is certified as CAMS, CGSS, CAMS-Audit, CFE and CFCS. He worked in different operational and managerial roles within Financial Crime Prevention covering all areas such as AML, CTF, Fraud, Sanctions and ABC as well as KYC/CDD, KYE, Cross-Border Compliance, International Information Sharing, FATCA and other Compliance topics and including auditing all such topics.. Within these areas he covered both operational activities such as Procedures, Trainings, Monitoring, Screening and Controls as well as strategic activities as Risk Assessments, Policies, Projects and Framework build-ups within an ever changing local and global regulatory environment. Holger also investigated large, complex and international Money Laundering, Sanctions, Corruption and Fraud cases and identified suspicious activity and weak controls, processes, manuals and policies. Within his activities he offered pragmatic solutions to minimise Financial Crime and Regulatory Risk. He is also a recognized SME for Financial Crime Prevention heading the ACAMS Germany Chapter which he also founded, giving a wide range of trainings and acts as a speaker on conferences and symposiums both national and international.