Trade-Based Money Laundering Training

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Course Summary

Criminals move dirty money through trade by faking the price, quantity, or quality of goods. This Ethena course shows how to spot trade-based money laundering and meet your AML and CFT duties.

How trade-based money laundering works
Core AML and CFT obligations
Suspicious patterns and behavioral red flags
Emerging risks and the legal landscape

Included Modules:

Introduction to Anti-Money Laundering

Sets up why AML matters, explaining how launderers turn illicit funds into seemingly legitimate money and how close employees can be to the problem.

AML and CFT: What You Need to Know

Defines anti-money laundering and counter-financing of terrorism, outlining the core obligations and controls that keep dirty money out of the system.

TBML: Recognizing the Risk

Explains trade-based money laundering, where criminals disguise illicit funds by misstating the price, quantity, or quality of traded goods and services.

Emerging Risks

Covers newer money laundering threats, from digital assets and shell companies to evolving trade schemes that test traditional detection and controls.

AML Legal Landscape

Outlines the laws and regulators governing AML, including reporting duties and the penalties firms and individuals face for non-compliance.

Identifying Suspicious Patterns and Behaviors

Teaches you to spot red flags in transactions and conduct, from mismatched invoices to unusual payment routes that signal possible laundering.

What's at Stake: Money Laundering

Highlights the real consequences of money laundering, including legal penalties, financial loss, and reputational harm to individuals and organizations.

Why is this training important for workplaces?

Trade-based money laundering hides dirty money inside ordinary-looking trade deals, using tricks like over- or under-invoicing, shipping goods that don’t match the paperwork, or invoicing the same shipment more than once. If your teams can’t spot these red flags, your business can move criminal funds without realizing it, which invites regulatory penalties, frozen accounts, and serious damage to your reputation. This training helps employees recognize suspicious trade and payment patterns and escalate them the right way, so the company stays compliant and keeps bad actors from using it as a channel. When people know what to watch for, you catch problems early instead of explaining them to regulators later.

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