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Certified Crypto Compliance Professional

7h · 8 modules · 40 lessons

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Course contents

01 AML/CFT obligations for VASPs

  1. 1.1 Money laundering and terrorist financing with crypto-assets
  2. 1.2 The VASP as an obliged entity
  3. 1.3 The risk-based approach
  4. 1.4 Core elements of an AML/CFT program
  5. 1.5 Technology risks specific to crypto

02 Customer due diligence and risk scoring

  1. 2.1 Customer identification and verification
  2. 2.2 Legal persons and beneficial ownership
  3. 2.3 Customer risk scoring
  4. 2.4 Enhanced and simplified due diligence
  5. 2.5 Ongoing due diligence and exits

03 Implementing the Travel Rule

  1. 3.1 Recommendation 16 applied to virtual assets
  2. 3.2 Identifying and vetting the counterparty
  3. 3.3 Travel Rule data and messaging
  4. 3.4 Unhosted wallets and self-hosted transfers
  5. 3.5 Travel Rule operations and exceptions

04 Sanctions exposure and screening

  1. 4.1 How sanctions work
  2. 4.2 Sanctions risks specific to crypto
  3. 4.3 Name and entity screening
  4. 4.4 Wallet and transaction screening
  5. 4.5 Running a sanctions compliance program

05 Transaction monitoring and alert triage

  1. 5.1 Transaction monitoring for crypto businesses
  2. 5.2 Blockchain analytics for compliance
  3. 5.3 Red flags and typologies
  4. 5.4 Alert triage and investigation
  5. 5.5 Tuning, metrics and model governance

06 Suspicious activity reporting

  1. 6.1 Suspicious transaction reporting obligations
  2. 6.2 Writing an effective report
  3. 6.3 Freezes, law-enforcement requests and asset recovery
  4. 6.4 Record keeping, data protection and information sharing
  5. 6.5 After the report

07 Global AML/CFT standards and regulatory frameworks

  1. 7.1 The FATF and the global standard
  2. 7.2 Recommendation 15 and its Interpretive Note
  3. 7.3 How national regimes implement the standard
  4. 7.4 Other international bodies and standards
  5. 7.5 Supervision, examinations and enforcement

08 Designing a compliance program

  1. 8.1 Building the compliance function
  2. 8.2 Policies, procedures and the control framework
  3. 8.3 The compliance technology stack
  4. 8.4 Training, culture and independent testing
  5. 8.5 Case study: launching a compliant VASP