Basic Illicit Finance Course (BIFC) and IFA Exam & Certification

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Package includes the ACTUAL² Basic Illicit Finance Course (BIFC) and certification as an Illicit Finance Analyst (IFA).  The Basic Illicit Finance Course provides analysts with indicators and triggers needed to uncover money trails used to support terrorist activities, trafficking, trade finance, and other international crimes/schemes. The course provides tools and techniques used to analyze financial networks and provide actionable intelligence. BIFC focuses on the way money moves through banks, money service businesses, informal value transfer systems (e.g., Hawala), and virtual economies. The course uses learning through student discovery, participation, and practical exercises.  Objective  Upon completion of BIFC, students will be able to:  - Understand the illicit finance community as well as the various roles and missions of the DoD, the Combatant Commands, the Intelligence Community, Treasury, and law enforcement, international, and regulatory communities - Explain the various authorities afforded by the U.S. Government to deter or defeat the raising, movement, storage and use of illicit funds - Explain how and why adversarial state and non-state actors raise, move, store, and use funds or items of value to support their enterprise, activities, or operations - Identify the of sources of information needed to analyze illicit finance issues and identify appropriate methods for obtaining, collecting, exploiting, and managing that information!  

Topics Covered:

  - Raise, Move, Store and Use Value & What is value

 - Formal Informal Value Transfer

 - How money moves, Fedwire, ACH, RGTS, SEPA, Non-financial networks 

- Correspondent Banking

 - Front, Shell and Shelf companies

 - FATF

 - Egmont Group

 - FIUs 

- AML 

- BSA Compliance 

- CMIRs 

- CTRs 

- 314 A&B 

- Money Laundering 

- SWIFT Communications 

- Trade based Money Laundering 

- Black Market Peso Exchange 

- Informal Value Transfer Systems 

- Hawalas, Mobile Banking 

- Banking for underprivileged 

- Politically Exposed Persons 

- Enhanced Due Diligence 

- Money Service Businesses 

- Cryptocurrency 

- Dark Web 

- Virtual Worlds 

- Bulk Cash Smuggling  

Upon completion of BIFC, students will be evaluated through a two phased exam. The first phase of examination will be an individual written exam, proctored by ACTUAL² instructors. The second phase of examination will consist of a graded team briefing. A passing score of 70% is required for certification as an Illicit Finance Analyst (IFA).