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Description
Introduction
CGSS is an ACAMS certification that equips an organisation’s workforce with a credential that represents a serious commitment to compliance with sanctions, in a world of increasingly complex laws, regulations, and policies. CGSS is global, allowing multinational institutions to strategically and uniformly apply the same programme for all global employees.
This course teaches the crucial sanctions principles all compliance staff should understand and will be of value to those new to sanctions compliance, those looking for a refresher, and those in frontline sanctions positions, teaching skills that benefit both new and experienced professionals, especially as regulator and market expectations around sanctions continue to increase.
Candidates are required to possess a sound knowledge of AML and terrorism preventing, and ideally be already an ACAMS certified AML Specialist.Objectives
By the end of the courses participants will understand the principles of:
- Governance and enforcement
- Sanctions related to evasion techniques
- Sanctions related to Due Diligence
- Sanctions related to screening
- Sanctions related to investigations and asset freezing
Programme
- Introduction and study recommendations
- Chapter 1: Governance and enforcement
- Introduction
- History of sanctions and purpose of sanctions
- Who imposes sanctions?
- Who is subject to sanctions?
- Sanction types
- Consequences for noncompliance
- Incorporating sanctions compliance into Compliance programmes, risk assessment, and employee training
- Chapter 2: Sanctions evasion techniques
- Evasion methods: common techniques
- Concealment of beneficial ownership
- Chapter 3: Sanctions Due Diligence
- Perform sanctions Due Diligence
- Chapter 4: Sanctions screening
- Screening targets
- Name screening vs. payment screening information technology
- Regulatory matters
- Name screening
- Payment screening
- Solving name and payment screening challenges
- Trade activity screening
- Chapter 5: Sanctions investigations and assets freezing
- Conducting investigations
- Reviewing relevant sources of information
- Identifying and blocking (or freezing) assets
- Chapter 6: Glossary of terms
- Chapter 7: Review questions
- Chapter 8: Guidance documents and reference material
Registration deadline
Deadline registration: 4 months prior to the beginning of the course.
Language
All courses of this programme are held in English.
Conditions
Course Material
Please note that for environmental reasons no paper version of the training material will be provided for your training. The course material can be downloaded free of charge via your portal before the start of the course (download the Client Portal User’s Guide here). You will be able to view it on the screen of your mobile device or print it if necessary. If your registration has been made by a training manager of your company please contact him/her so that he/she can give you access to it or send it to you.
Registration - Special Instruction
Before sending your registration to customer@houseoftraining.lu, you must take the eligibility test by clicking on this link Eligibility calculator
If you do not obtain the necessary 40 credits, you cannot submit your application.
Please take into account the information provided by ACAMS in the Candidate Handbook, especially the section on preparation for the exam.
Given the commercial agreement between the House of Training and ACAMS, any registration for this programme is subject to specific Terms and Conditions of Sale. Indeed, only the full payment of registration fees will validate the enrollment in the programme and will give you access to the course material in PDF format.
Practical arrangements:
- The training will be held in virtual format via the Webex plateform.
- Attendance certificates are sent automatically after the training. Success certificates are sent directly by ACAMS to successful candidates.
- The application deadline is 4 months prior to the start of the training.
Exams
At the end of this training programme, participants will sit a 3-hour examination in order to obtain their certificate. This is the official, computer-based ACAMS examination which is organised in a specialised IT examination centre in Luxembourg. The participants can either take their examen at the CSL or in remote version.
Recognised worldwide by employers in both private industry and government and acknowledged by regulators and examiners, the Certified Global Sanctions Specialist® (CGSS) credential denotes proven knowledge in the international sanctions.
Address of the examination center:
CSL - Chamber of Employees Luxembourg
2-4 rue Pierre Hentges
L-1726 Luxembourg
Practical arrangements:
- ACAMS will send an email confirmation of registration for the exam.
- The proposed exam date is part of the registration process with the House of Training. Any request to postpone registration for the examination is the responsibility of the candidate and does not give right to a refund. In such a case, the applicant must contact the examination center in order to reserve a new date and, if appropriate, pay the resulting fees.
- The examination results are communicated by ACAMS. If unsuccessful, we invite applicants to refer to the Applicant's Handbook or to contact ACAMS to resubmit the exam and pay the resulting fees (not included in the registration fees) .
- The examination will take place in the morning OR the afternoon of the day indicated. You will be informed, at the latest, one week before the examination of your specific examination slot.
Location
Sessions et horaires
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Mon 12.05.2025
09:00 à 18:00
8H
ACAMS Certified Global Sanctions Specialist (CGSS)
Classe virtuelle
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Tue 13.05.2025
09:00 à 18:00
8H
ACAMS Certified Global Sanctions Specialist (CGSS)
Classe virtuelle
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Wed 14.05.2025
09:00 à 18:00
8H
ACAMS Certified Global Sanctions Specialist (CGSS)
Classe virtuelle
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Thu 15.05.2025
09:00 à 18:00
8H
ACAMS Certified Global Sanctions Specialist (CGSS)
Classe virtuelle
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Fri 16.05.2025
09:00 à 18:00
8H
ACAMS Certified Global Sanctions Specialist (CGSS)
Classe virtuelle
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