Competent financial institutions and banking regulators around the world describe trade-based money laundering as one of the more effective methods of laundering the proceeds of crime or financing terrorism.

FIU CONNECT (Trade-Based Money Laundering) prepares bank staff to bolster defences against illicit international trade practices and identify the patterns of possible trade-based money laundering activity in order to report their concerns up the chain of command.

The FIU CONNECT (Trade-Based Money Laundering) program can be implemented with the following components:

• Digital textbook
• Computer-based training
• Examination