COURSE CATEGORY
Substantive Law
Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing
Reviewed on 24 November 2023
The course is a discussion between Martin and Arvinder on what is anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorism finance (CTF) drawing on their extensive expertise.
Discussion points include:
- Key recommendations from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF)
- Practicalities of prevention
- The importance of risk assessment
- The role of gatekeepers
- Internal controls, policies and procedures
- Customer due diligence and enhanced due diligence
- Reporting and record-keeping obligation
Completion of this course will earn you 1.5 CPD units.
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TARGET AUDIENCE
Banking and finance lawyers
CPD POINTS
1.5
TYPE
Video-based interactive module
Martin Polaine
Director, Amicus Legal Consultants
Martin Polaine is one of the directors, a practising barrister (as a member of Brooke Chambers) of approaching 35 years’ experience and an arbitrator. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb) and a Fellow of the Asian Institute of Alternative Dispute Resolution (FAIADR).
He has advised states, corporates and individuals in Africa, Asia and Europe on dispute resolution, public international law and international/transnational criminal law. He has extensive experience in both civil law and common law states and his practice includes international arbitration (both commercial and state-investor), international trade and sale of goods, anti-corruption, AML/financial regulatory, international human rights law and treaty drafting. He also has a complementary background as a former senior prosecutor.
As a barrister, Martin has had conduct of numerous complex and sensitive cases, with a particular focus on those with an international element. He is also regularly engaged as an ‘expert’ by a range of international organisations (including Commonwealth Secretariat, Council of Europe, the OECD,UN agencies and the World Bank)
He has extensive experience in advising at ministerial and senior official level and has been responsible for drafting both national laws and international instruments. His wide-ranging representational roles have included treaty negotiation and serving as the UK’s legal representative on the OECD Working Group on Bribery. With a passionate interest in sport, he has also worked with governing bodies and player associations on compliance, governance and anti-corruption issues and has also participated as a European Commission expert on initiatives to counter match-fixing.
Martin is an experienced trainer, facilitator and crisis preparedness professional. He is a hands-on designer and facilitator of Solve workshops and has, since the late 1990s, conducted well over 200 exercises worldwide on a wide range of topic areas.
He also teaches law (and writes courses) at postgraduate level for the College of Law (Sydney), where he lectures in ‘International Arbitration & ADR’, ‘International Trade & Investment’, ‘Banking & Finance’, ‘Capital Markets’ and ‘Intellectual Property’. As both a practitioner and teacher, he has a keen interest in the Asia-Pacific region and in ASEAN in particular.
His publications include co-authorship of ‘Corruption & Misuse of Public Office’ (1st edition, Oxford) and of ‘Counter-Terrorism Law and Practice: An International Handbook’ (Oxford), as well as numerous manuals and papers in his specialist fields.
Arvinder Sambei
Director, Amicus Legal Consultants
Arvinder Sambei is one of the directors and is also practising barrister (as a member of Brooke Chambers) of 35 years’ experience. She has formerly served as a Senior Crown Prosecutor with the Crown Prosecution Service of England & Wales, Legal Adviser at the Permanent Joint Headquarters (PJHQ), Ministry of Defence and (between 2005 and 2008 as Head of the Criminal Law Section at the Commonwealth Secretariat.
Arvinder specialises in anti-corruption, anti-money laundering, data protection, CFT/counter-terrorism, extradition law and international co-operation and public international law (including international human rights and international humanitarian law).
As a barrister, she had conduct of many of the UK’s high profile extradition, counter-terrorism, transnational and war crimes cases. She is also engaged by a range of international organisations (including the Council of Europe, the IMF and UN agencies) as an acknowledged expert in her fields of practice.
Arvinder is also an experienced facilitator and trainer, and is regularly instructed to design & deliver training, capacity building and technical assistance seminars and workshop on behalf of international organisations, law firms and corporates on anti-corruption, AML/CFT, counter-terrorism, dawn raids, and corporate governance.
Along with other members of Amicus, she also develops and delivers immersive crisis prevention and management exercises and anonymised debriefing for businesses (of all sizes) to enhance critical incident/crisis preparedness and response. Arvinder has a particular interest in devising procedure stress-testing that encourages clients to take a holistic approach to critical incidents that encompasses risk identification/management, decision-making, communication and reputation safeguarding.
Her publications include co-authorship of the ‘Extradition Law Handbook’ (Oxford) and ‘Counter Terrorism Law & Practice: An International Handbook’ (Oxford), contributing authorship of ‘The Extradition and Mutual Legal Assistance Handbook’ (Oxford), and numerous papers and papers in her specialist fields.
