13 & 14 November 2025
1-Day Hybrid Trade Seminar on Trade Based Money Laundering & Terrorist Financing / Trade Finance Fraud – Identification and Prevention
Seminar Fee: $788.00
Time: 9.00 am to 5.00 pm (SGT)
Course Outline:
This is specially designed to help the participant to gain a comprehensive understanding of the intricacies of trade-based financial crimes. Risks that the banks are exposed? Equip you with essential tools and techniques to detect and protect your organization from financial crimes.
Examples of Trade Finance Crimes:
- To finance the terrorist activities and to conceal the real buyers which could be a sanctions party.
- To send back the drug money or illegal money to the supplier;
- To create financing but there is no real underlying trade.
- To buy dual use goods for restricted country.
The ICC Global Trade Finance survey 2015 reported that “18.5% of survey respondents experienced an increase in allegations of fraud & 6.1% of respondents reported increases in court injunction barring payment under trade finance instruments.”
Objectives of this seminar:
- What are the technological and services providers offering in the market.
- What are the roles of Compliance, sales or relationship manager and operations in mitigating Trade Finance Fraud Risk.
- Understand current control frameworks and processes largely used by Banks.
- Understand the weakness and challenges of current framework and process.
- How to handle transaction due diligence (red flag check) and resolution.
- What could be done better in future to avoid these risks.
- Discuss cases to analysis what are the risks and cautions that Banks could be taken.