Practical AML guidance

    AML Red Flags and Suspicious Transaction Reporting

    Red flags are the practical side of anti-money-laundering work: the patterns in a client, a structure or a transaction that do not fit the profile you would expect. No indicator on its own proves wrongdoing — the obligation is to notice it, document your reasoning, escalate it internally, and where suspicion remains, report it. This page sets out the indicator categories our trainers work through with participants and lists the seminars and online courses where they are covered in depth. Reporting channels and thresholds are set by your supervisory authority and MOKAS, so always follow your firm's current internal procedures.

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    What this training covers

    • Client and structure indicators: opaque ownership, unexplained layers, nominee arrangements and unclear source of funds or wealth
    • Behavioural indicators: reluctance to provide documents, unusual urgency, third parties directing instructions and inconsistent explanations
    • Transaction indicators: activity inconsistent with the client profile, round-sum and rapid pass-through flows, and unexplained cross-border routing
    • Sector-specific patterns for accountancy, corporate administration, legal services, real estate and payments
    • Sanctions and adverse-media hits, and how they interact with a suspicion assessment
    • Escalation in practice: documenting the assessment, the compliance officer's role, internal reporting and tipping-off risk
    • Common weaknesses supervisors identify: unrecorded rationale, closed alerts without reasoning and monitoring rules that were never tuned

    Who it is for

    • AML compliance officers and their deputies
    • Accountants, auditors and tax professionals reviewing client activity
    • Lawyers, administrative service providers and company administrators
    • Onboarding, KYC and transaction-monitoring teams in banks, EMIs, payment institutions and investment firms
    • Senior management and board members accountable for the AML framework

    Cyprus employers can co-fund eligible seminars through the Human Resource Development Authority. See how HRDA funding works.

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