AML - New Techniques for Laundering Money

Why Should You Attend:

In any cat and mouse game, as the mice gets wise to how the cat hunts, the mice find other methods to find food and live their lives. This is true for money laundering. As the regulatory and professional communities become more attenuated to how illicit money moves, the mice change their methods and tactics. The methods and tactics shared in this program are from real-life experiences, after tracing and documenting their evolving methods.

This webinar will discuss and reveal some of the new techniques for laundering money. The chicanery and ability of money launderers has gone far beyond smurfing small deposits into account and now encompass agriculture, art, intangibles and the hedge fund industry.

Areas Covered in the Webinar:

• A clearer idea of the need to move money
• The political and economic climates that lend themselves to movement of capital
• There is nothing wrong with cash and there is nothing right about wires
• How to look behind the client customer and see their lives
• Bribing a politician – it so easy and you might not see it
• Using agriculture to launder funds
• Using the art market to launder funds
• Using the fund industry to launder funds
• The beauty of intangibles
• Understand the concept of dominion of assets as opposed to title
• The coming peril for the shadow bankers
• How to get this right and how to get this wrong

Who Will Benefit:

• Compliance Consultants
• Risk Managers
• Any Branch or OSJ Manager
• Lawyers
• Accountants in the Financial Field
• Members of Audit Committee and Risk Committees
• Regulators
• Securities Broker Dealers
• Bankers
• Fund Managers

Instructor Profile:

Burke Files is the head of Financial Investigations & Evaluations, Inc. an international investigative firm specializing in asset recovery, due diligence, anti-money laundering, intellectual property matters, a certified due diligence professional, and a certified anti-corruption manager.

Mr. Files is the practice section leader on due diligence, asset recovery and intellectual property investigations. As a financial industry insider he is keenly aware of the type, and accuracy of the information required to make informed and timely decisions. Mr. Files has been the case manager on fraud investigations ranging from tens of thousands of dollars to over 20 billion. He is an international expert on due diligence and is regularly sought out for those cases that bedevil the desktop practitioners.

Mr. Files is a published author of five books, in particular “Due Diligence for the Financial Professional, 2nd edition 2010” winner of two book awards, and “Money and Budgets.” He is also the author of several studies and white papers, and numerous articles. He has been quoted in many publications both domestic and international. Mr. Files is a member of the board of advisors for the International Due Diligence Association as well as the president of the American Anti-Corruption Institute. He is a highly sought out international speaker on these subject matters.

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