The risks of financial crime are ever increasing and in particular in difficult economic conditions. The following key risks will be elaborated and assessed:

• Corruption
• Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)
• Sanctions
• Developments in US extra territoriality
• The global search for third world development capital
• Terrorist financing
• Tax

Stephen PLATT, Chairman of the BakerPlatt Group

Stephen is widely acknowledged as one of the world’s leading international ’crisis’ lawyers specialising in the regulation of financial services and financial crime in and through financial centres. 
His work includes the defence and prosecution of financial crime, regulatory inspections, governance reviews and advice to regulators on money laundering and the regulation of trust companies, banks and investments businesses. With additional expertise in sanctions, Stephen regularly advises some of the world’s largest non-US banks on the risks of criminal and civil liability resulting from breaches of Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctions. Stephen publishes widely and travels internationally lecturing and training governmental and commercial organisations.

One half day

Organisations are faced with several threats that often relate directly or undirectly to IT. Those threats and applicable controls will be highlighted in a pragmatic manner, also for non-IT specialists.

Secure IT and risks for your organisation:

• Cracking password protected Excel documents
• Tracking dots on printouts from color laser printers
• WLAN antennas – homemade
• Bluetooth – Bluesnarfing: how to operate a foreign phone via Bluetooth
• Read erased data from hard drives and other storage media
• Word tracking: read a word document’s history
• PDF Tracking: read the unreadable
• BruteForce password cracking methods
• Explain employees the security issues (passwords)
• How to choose a safe password
• KeyKatcher, KeyGhost, KeySpyer: the keyboard memory

Anatomy of a financial services espionage attack:

• Information research
• Physical access/bypassing technical security equipments, imposition of enterprise security
• Information data theft

Real life scenarios:

• Social engineering (video clip)
• Targeted Trojan horse attacks (Live demo)

Approach: Integration of Information Security Management System based on ISO 27001

Tobias SCHRODEL - IP applications consultant, Security and Software Development at T-Systems Enterprise Services GmbH, Munich (Germany)

Tobias Schrödel is examiner at the Chamber of Commerce for prospective IT Specialists, holds presentations as guest speaker at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich and has published numerous technical articles for magazines. He is engaged in historical cryptanalysis and the search for security gaps of all-day commodities. Tobias is a well known and regular speaker on the subject having a reputation for high impact and the ability to present IT related subjects to the ordinary user.

Michael HOCHENRIEDER – Chief executive and senior consultant of HvS-Consulting, Munich (Germany)

Michael became chief security officer for a major IT service provider in 2001 and was responsible for its whole security field. In 2002 he founded, in partnership with Frank von Stetten, HvS-Consulting GmbH and is coaching middle and large enterprises on the subject of enterprise security. His consultant emphasis is mainly in the areas of security assessments, introduction of enterprise wide security policies and processes, social engineering as well as IuK-forensic analyses.

One half day

Efficient crisis management is including anticipation, preparation and proactive management in order to achieve optimal results and negative impact.

Preparedness: How to prepare your organization to meet a crisis?

• Risk and Threat analyses
• Planning
• Implementation and training

 
Crisis Management: How to act in the crucial first hours?

• Mobilization
• Situation analyzis
• Decision making
• Public Affairs, Investor Relations, Media Relations and Public Relations

 
Discussion: What do you see as the most difficult area of Crisis Management?

Gunnar ANGELTVEIT, Managing partner

In 1986-1993 Gunnar held several management positions in the Royal Ministry of Defence of Norway. He was General Director and head of the Press and Information department and the Press Spokesman for the Minister of Defence. He was also Head of the Governmental Crisis Communication Unit. In May 2001, he started what has developed into CCN AS where he is Managing Partner.
Gunnar has worked both as a journalist, spokesperson and advisor. He has coordinated several incidents which received massive national and international media coverage. As an advisor he is participating in Strategic Planning, Public Affairs, Public Relations, Media Relations and Crisis Management.

One half day

Evaluating and assessing the credibility and quality of oral and written information and communication.

Credibility of a statement

• detecting red flags for false statements
• evidence psychology
• analysis of oral and written statements
• possible alert signals

Communication fundamentals

Interrogation and interrogation techniques

Securing Evidence

Axel Wendler, High Court Judge OLG Stuttgart (Germany)

Since 1985, Axel Wendler is a leading instructor in the training for judges, attorneys, lawyers, insurances and companies in the field of evidence psychology, rhetoric and tactical negotiations, as well as forensic interviewing. He is further specilised in the area of body oriented psychotherapy and negotiation therapy (body language), systemic dispositions and the training of coaches. He has also published many papers and books as well as being featured as expert in different TV broadcasts.

One half day

AML features from an interorganisational perspective:

• Money laundering trends and financial analysis techniques
• Financial Intelligence concept applied to both integrated financial data and criminal data
• Illustration of a practical ML case

A practitioners perspective on AML and financial crime requierments:

• AML & Fraud – customer monitoring functionality, the linkage to threats and vulnerabilities
• PEPs/Bribery & Corruption – risk based approach in action
• Sanctions – customer and payments synergies, systems and process considerations

Mauro FALESIEDI, Europol, First Officer - Financial Crime Group Project Manager - AWF SUSTRANS

Mauro is a Deputy Superintendent of the Italian State Police. During his 26 years of career he conducted complex investigations in the field of drug, money laundering and financial crime at both national and international level. From January 2001 up to August 2003 he was deputy Head of Financial Investigation Unit at the UN-ICTY (International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia) in the Office of the Prosecutor. Within Europol Central Criminal Directorate Mauro is in charge of projects in the field of money laundering. Since September 2003, he is also the Project Manager of AWF SUSTRANS, at the EU level.  

Tina BLOCKSIDGE, Lloyds TSB, Senior Manager, Sanctions Policy Compliance & Technical Advice | Group Financial Crime & Operational Risk

Tina Blocksidge has over 9 years experience working in the field of AML/Sanctions within the life insurance industry at Britannic Management Services, as Data Protection/Money Laundering Prevention Manager, and at HBOS leading the Global Risk Oversight team. Since June 2008, Tina has been working for the Lloyds Banking Group most recently in the capacity of Nominated Officer having previously acted as Senior Manager responsible for their Sanctions Policy compliance and technical advice. Tina is a Fellow of the International Compliance Association and a qualified practitioner of Data Protection.

One half day

The premises of PwC ACADEMY located 400, route d’Esch, Z.I. Cloche d’Or, Luxembourg-Gasperich.

An invoice will be sent to you at the end of the training.

For organisational purpose or in case of absolute necessity, we reserve the right to delay or cancel training events. In such cases, participants will be advised at the latest five business days before the event.

Any cancellation should be communicated in writing at the latest five business days before the event. Thereafter, full fees will be invoiced. Substitution of one participant by another is possible and can be done at any time upon written notice.

An attendance certificate will be sent to participants.

The modules described here can be organised in your premises or can be adapted to your specific needs. Do not hesitate to contact us if you are interested by tailored solution.

Registration fees are eligible for State co-financing in accordance with the legislation relating to the support and development of continuing vocational training. PwC ACADEMY is authorised as a provider of continuing vocational training under registration number 94523/C.