Continuous Professional Development (CPD) Courses
Understanding sanctions
5 CPD
The course can be accredited by regulators and other bodies for 5 CPD Units. Obliged entities should develop, establish and implement sanctions policy, sanctions manuals, policies and procedures based on the Sanctions Law, Sanctions Directive and relevant guidelines from supervisory authorities that encompass deep...
The AIFM and Small AIFM in Cyprus
5 CPD
The course can be accredited by regulators and other bodies for 5 CPD Units. This course explains the general conditions that applies for an Alternative Investment Fund Manager (AIFM) and for a Small AIFM. It describes an AIFM's key characteristics, the initial capital requirements for an AIFM, its organisational...
Product Governance and KIID/PRIIP Preparation
5 CPD
The course can be accredited by regulators and other bodies for up to 5 CPD Units. To avoid and reduce from an early stage potential risks of failure with investor protection rules, investment firms, manufacturing and distributing financial instruments should comply with...
AML: Business Wide Risk Assessment (BWRA)
5 CPD
The course can be accredited by regulators and other bodies for 5 CPD Units. This course describes Business Wide Risk Assessment (BWRA) and explains its main objectives. It analyses the legal basis and the provisions of the Law relevant to BWRA. It explains the main...
Key conditions for the implementation of GDPR
5 CPD
The course can be accredited by regulators and other bodies for 5 CPD Units. This course describes the key conditions of the “Consent” and Data Protection Officer’s monitoring of GDPR, that a company should take into consideration in order to comply with the provisions of...
Product Governance: Product Review Process (PRP)
5 CPD
The course can be accredited by regulators and other bodies for 5 CPD Units. Regulation requires that product manufacturers “regularly review” their products. This course explains the Product Review Process (PRP) and analyses each step of the PRP. It provides an overview of...
All about GDPR Consent – How to obtain a valid Consent
3 CPD
The course can be accredited by regulators and other bodies for 3 CPD Units. This course describes the Consent as a lawful basis of processing personal data. It describes in detail about how to obtain a Consent, the elements that must exist in order a Consent to be considered...
Risk Management in the Financial Services Industry (UCITS, AIF, AIFM)
5 CPD
The course can be accredited by regulators and other bodies for 5 CPD Units. This course aims to describe the risk management in the financial services industry and explains the various risks that investment managers face when investing their clients' funds. It offers...
Product Governance: Product Approval Process (PAP)
5 CPD
The course can be accredited by regulators and other bodies for 5 CPD Units. This course describes the concept of product Manufacturer and product Distributor and explains the main objective of product governance requirements as well as the main principles of...
Assessment of suitability A to Z
5 CPD
The course can be accredited by regulators and other bodies for 5 CPD Units. This course analyses the requirements that MiFID II and MiFID II Delegated Regulation place on investment firms when they provide investment advice or discretionary portfolio management services. These...
AML Basics
3 CPD
The course can be accredited by regulators and other bodies for 3 CPD Units.This course aims to provide an understanding of the stages of money laundering, the methods used, the overall AML framework internationally and on a European level. It also aims to provide an understanding on how the risk...
Information addressed to clients by Investment Firms
5 CPD
The course can be accredited by regulators and other bodies for 5 CPD Units. This course provides an in-depth analysis of the information that investment firms should provide to their clients or potential clients. It describes in detail the....
Marketing Communication – Trading benefits (bonuses) – Use of third parties to acquire retail clients
5 CPD
The course can be accredited by regulators and other bodies for 5 CPD Units.This course provides an in-depth analysis of the information, including marketing communication that investment firms should...
Understanding the FATF 40 recommendations
5 CPD
The course can be accredited by regulators and other bodies for 5 CPD Units. This course aims to describe each of the FATF 40 recommendations, taking also into consideration their interpretive notes. The course aims in providing anti-money laundering professionals with...
Appropriateness Test & Appropriateness scoring
5 CPD
The course can be accredited by regulators and other bodies for 5 CPD Units.This course analyses the information that investment firms should obtain from clients when providing the service of investment advise and portfolio management and the information...
Customer Due Diligence and Marketing Communication
5 CPD
The course can be accredited by regulators and other bodies for 5 CPD Units. This course aims to describe in summary the types of financial crime and the stages and process of Money Laundering. It also explains in brief the Customer Due Diligence (CDD) measures and...
Risk-Based Approach for Administrative Service Providers (ASPs)
5 CPD
The course can be accredited by regulators and other bodies for 5 CPD Units. This course analyses in details how Administrative Service providers (ASPs) and in general Licensed Entities can design...
AIFs, AIFLNPs and RAIFs Operations and Rules – From A to Z
5 CPD
The course can be accredited by regulators and other bodies for 5 CPD Units. This course aims to describe and explain the key principles and characteristics of the AIF, AIFLNP and RAIF. It aims to describe the authorisation requirements and process for...
Prevention and detection of market abuse
5 CPD
The course can be accredited by regulators and other bodies for 5 CPD Units. This course analyses the Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) [REGULATION (EU) No 596/2014] giving special emphasis to article 16(2) of the MAR which states that any person professionally arranging or...
Identifying ML/TF risk factors and business-wide and individual risk assessments
3 CPD
The course can be accredited by regulators and other bodies for 3 CPD Units. This course analyses the sections (a) Risk assessments: key principles for all firms and (b) Identifying ML/TF risk factors, of the...
