In today’s fast-paced and highly regulated business environment, staying ahead of compliance challenges is crucial. With the rapid pace of change, increasing regulatory scrutiny, and the impact of enforcement actions on both corporate and personal reputations, skilled and knowledgeable regulatory compliance professionals are in high demand. This programme is designed to equip compliance advisory officers with the essential knowledge and practical skills needed to navigate complex regulatory frameworks and effectively manage risk.
Key Benefits of the Programme:
Equip yourself with the skills to help businesses navigate the regulatory landscape and protect their interests. Choose your specialisation and become a trusted expert in the compliance field!
You will have direct exposure to seasoned compliance industry specialists and leaders who are experts in the particular area. All sessions are interactive including teaching, case studies, group breakouts and discussions and assessments are similarly designed to ensure skills learnt are thoroughly understood and grasped in practice and can be applied to work-life circumstances. Successful completion of the programme qualifies you for a Certified Compliance Officer (Regulatory Compliance) qualification as well as eligibility to apply to IBF for the Compliance Advisory Level 2 Certification*, recognizing your achievement.
Participants must complete a total of 4 modules
In an age where financial crises recur, regulations are promulgated at increasing rates, and fines and penalties continue to rise with corporate and individual accountability of officers, it is fundamental to understand correct governance and how to inculcate a culture of compliance and ethical conduct in financial services firms.
This course enables an understanding of the major current compliance risks and topics and the drivers and evolution of these risks over time. Participants will understand the core standards and regulatory expectations with regard to corporate governance, conduct and compliance and how these standards need to be operationalized in a corporate environment. Case studies from real life will be covered including management and mismanagement of compliance risks, flaws in processes and culture including the range of questionable/ unethical/ illegal behavioural spectrum. The architecture and processes necessary to continuously assess and mitigate compliance risks, detect, investigate and enforce standards and key principles, tools and techniques to continuously improve these processes will be addressed
Total Training Duration / CPD Hours : 13
Core FAA CPD : 13
Core SFA CPD : 13
Classroom Hours : 13
Preparatory Hours : 4
In an evolving and increasingly complex banking and financial services environment, the requirements and demands for skilled compliance professionals have increased proportionately. It is imperative to have the knowledge and leadership to develop, drive and establish the organisation’s compliance strategy aligned with the firm strategy, programme and overall direction.
“Seeing round the bends” is challenging. Given the rapidly changing regulatory, business and competitive landscape, the constant review of business operating processes is required to meet new challenges brought about by the increasingly sophisticated nature of financial crimes, client behaviours, and new regulatory demands and expectations. As financial services are global, and borderless whereas rules, regulations and regulatory requirements are jurisdictional, an analysis, stakeholder management and decision-making factoring multiple vectors is required.
Taught by experienced industry practitioners, this module is designed to provide the understanding, framework, principles, tools and methodologies to derive and deliver the necessary compliance policies, procedures and best practices for a firm.
Total Training Duration / CPD Hours : 13
Classroom Hours : 13
Preparatory Hours : 4
Over the past decades, the importance of compliance within the financial industry has increased year over year and legal, compliance and regulatory functions saw respective growth in most organisations. This significance resulted in a relevant bottom-line impact for most financial institutions and therefore, the quest for efficiency increase in compliance has become a key goal for many organisations. Today’s technologies are able to transform many traditional legal and compliance tasks but require the knowledge to understand technologies and select appropriate tools for distinct tasks.
This module aims to provide participants with the skills to assess different technologies for different compliance tasks critically, define respective business requirements, and effectively project manage, drive and implement respective compliance and regulatory technology tools in an organisation.
Total Training Duration / CPD Hours : 13
Classroom Hours : 13
This course aims to provide experienced Compliance, Risk, Legal and Audit professionals with a strong understanding of regulatory compliance in Singapore’s financial services industry, with a focus on both retail and private banking, asset management, and corporate banking regulatory frameworks and risks.
Total Training Duration / CPD Hours : 16
Classroom Hours : 16
This course is designed for compliance professionals within the financial services sector with at least 3 years of relevant experience, including legal, enterprise/operational risk, audit professionals and those in control functions in the first line of defence. It is also relevant for external lawyers, consultants and accountants advising the financial services sector.
Useful Links
Participants who successfully complete the programme will be awarded:
Accreditation
IBF Standards Training Scheme (IBF-STS)
Find out more at www.ibf.org.sg/home/for-individuals/skills-and-jobs-development/training-support/IBF-STS.
SILE
Singapore Institute of Legal Education Accreditation
Module: Compliance Risk and Culture
Eligible Public CPD Points: Day 1= 4, Day 2= 4.5. Total = 8.5 (TBC)
Practice Area: Ethics and Professional Responsibility
Training Level: Intermediate
Participants who wish to obtain CPD Points must comply strictly with the Attendance Policy set out in the CPD Guidelines. For this activity, participants are reminded to sign in on arrival and sign out at the conclusion of each day of the event in the manner required by the organiser. Participants must not be absent from each day of the event for more than 15 minutes. Participants may obtain Public CPD Points for each day of the event on which they comply strictly with the Attendance Policy. Participants who do not comply with the Attendance Policy on any particular day of the event will not be able to obtain CPD Points for that day. Please refer to www.sileCPDcentre.sg for more information.
Certification
Participants who successfully complete the programme will be awarded:
WMI Certification
IBF Certification
Note:
In addition to Course Fees, each participant will also be charged a non-refundable and non-claimable application fee of S$85 (including GST).
SkillsFuture Credits can be utilised to offset the balance of the programme fees after IBF subsidy. Do note that SkillsFuture Credits cannot be used to offset Application Fees.
Click here to read more about the terms & conditions governing registration, payment, cancellation, deferment and no-show.
The information above is correct at the time of publication. The Wealth Management Institute reserves the right to amend the fees and/or terms and conditions as appropriate.
The schedule is subject to change, additional classes may be added with sufficient interest. Please click “Apply Now” to register your interest.
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