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  "title": "AML - CFT Standards",
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  "summary": "Session No.: SA 26.02",
  "publishDate": "2025-10-29",
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    {
      "heading": "Program overview and logistics",
      "content": "- Session No.: SA 26.02\n- Location: New Delhi, India\n- Date: January 19-23, 2026 (1 week)\n- Delivery Method: In-person Training\n- Primary Language: English\n- Status: Deadline passed\n- Target audience: SARTTAC member countries; designed for regulators, financial institutions, designated non-financial businesses and professions (DNFBPs), law enforcement, and policy professionals."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Qualifications and participant profile",
      "content": "- Language skills:\n  - Fluency in English.\n- Operational experience (participants should have relevant operational experience which may include, but is not limited to):\n  - Investigating or prosecuting ML/TF or major economic crime.\n  - Working in AML/CFT supervision or monitoring (e.g., as part of a financial sector or DNFBP supervisor).\n  - International cooperation relating to major organized economic crime, ML or TF.\n  - Working on national AML/CFT-related policy or strategy.\n  - Law enforcement experience related to freezing/seizing/confiscating proceeds of crime.\n  - Operational experience related to combatting proliferation financing.\n  - Experience in investigating misuse of corporate vehicles.\n- Personality:\n  - Participants should work well in a multi-cultural environment."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Delivery format and pedagogy",
      "content": "- Delivery: Workshops, interactive presentations, group exercises, and real-world case studies.\n- Duration: 5-day training program.\n- Instructional emphasis:\n  - Learning and practicing international anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing (AML/CFT) standards.\n  - Deep and practical understanding of the FATF (Financial Action Task Force) Recommendations and assessment methodology.\n  - Hands-on analysis through case studies and typologies to identify ML/TF risks in real-world scenarios."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course content focus",
      "content": "- In-depth coverage of the FATF 40 Recommendations, with special focus on:\n  - Risk-based supervision.\n  - Customer due diligence (CDD).\n  - Beneficial ownership.\n  - Suspicious transaction reporting (STR).\n- Exploration of key themes:\n  - Financial inclusion.\n  - Emerging risks.\n  - Virtual assets.\n  - Targeted financial sanctions."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Certification and expected outcomes",
      "content": "- Successful trainees will be officially certified as having undertaken the official Standards Training Course.\n- Upon completion, participants should be able to:\n  - Understand the structure and role of the FATF, including its Recommendations and assessment methodology.\n  - Gain in-depth insight into the 40 Recommendations, with special focus on risk-based supervision, CDD, beneficial ownership, and STR.\n  - Explore and apply knowledge on financial inclusion, emerging risks, virtual assets, and targeted financial sanctions.\n  - Analyze case studies and typologies to identify ML/TF risks in real-world scenarios."
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