USAWarez

Advanced Sanctions Compliance Course
Published 7/2026
MP4 | Video: h264, 1920x1080 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Language: English | Duration: 3h 32m | Size: 962.58 MB
Resolve ownership chains, defeat stripping and read the dark fleet - then work a full sanctions case file end to end.
What you'll learn
Work sanctions as the prohibition-based, strict-liability discipline it is, rather than carrying suspicion-based AML habits into a field that punishes them.
Navigate the UN, EU, UK and US regimes where they diverge and conflict, including the EU Blocking Regulation and secondary-sanctions exposure.
Apply the OFAC 50 Percent Rule correctly - aggregate blocked holdings and resolve chains level by level instead of multiplying percentages down.
Apply EU and UK ownership-and-control tests that catch a designated person sitting below the OFAC threshold through board appointment or de facto control.
Read layered structures, nominees and post-designation restructuring, treating a stake engineered just below a threshold as a red flag rather than comfort.
Govern list management as an evidenced control: scope, update latency, propagation to every screening point, and back-book re-screening.
Use secondary identifiers to tell a true match from a common-name coincidence, and understand why name-only matching fails in both directions.
Configure and test screening deliberately, knowing that a miss produces no alert and an unmonitored system can fail silently for years.
Tune screening on evidence rather than on the queue, and govern whitelists as the permanent, designed blind spots they are.
Screen the payment message properly, understand correspondent nesting, and design against stripping as a conduct risk inside your own firm.
Assess trade, sectoral and dual-use export-control exposure, including diversion through third countries to a restricted end-user.
Assess maritime risk - the dark fleet profile, AIS gaps and spoofing, ship-to-ship transfers, and the full vessel ownership chain.
Recognise evasion patterns assembled across control domains, where each control clears its slice and only the whole picture reveals the arrangement.
Read licences to their four corners, handle wind-downs and frozen-asset duties, and exit a position without the exit creating the breach.
Investigate a breach, scope it candidly, and reach a defensible voluntary self-disclosure decision with legal input at senior level.
Build assurance that converts confidence into evidence, and report to a board in terms that let it govern rather than merely be reassured.
Requirements
A working knowledge of sanctions fundamentals - designations, asset freezes, screening and the basic regimes.
A foundation or intermediate AML and sanctions course is recommended background; this is an advanced course and moves quickly.
No specific software or vendor platform required - the course is about analysis and design decisions, not one system.
Practical exposure to compliance, payments, trade finance or financial crime work will make the cases land harder.
Description
━━━ DISCLAIMER ━━━
This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.
Sanctions does not forgive a near miss. Learn to work the files where the answer is not on any list.
You already know how to run a screening system. But the breaches that end careers do not happen because a name was on a list and somebody ignored it. They happen because the designated person never appeared on the transaction at all - they sat behind a holding company two layers up, or the payment message was quietly edited before it left your own operations, or the entire exposure lived in a thirty-year-old tanker nobody thought to look at.
This is an advanced course for practitioners who have to resolve those files. Sanctions runs on a different logic from anti-money-laundering: prohibition-based, strict liability, and unforgiving of good intentions. A firm that borrows AML's comfort with judgement calls is quietly running a risk it has not named.
I've spent 20 years across banks, fintechs, crypto firms and payment institutions working exactly these questions - ownership arithmetic that decides whether a counterparty is blocked, screening configurations that fail silently for years, correspondent relationships that separate you from the parties you are screening, and the board conversation nobody wants to have. Taught in a practitioner's voice with a concrete case in every lecture, this course builds the precision the discipline actually demands.
━━━ WHAT YOU'LL LEARN ━━━
* Why sanctions is not AML - prohibition-based strict liability, and why "we didn't suspect anything" is not a defence
* How the UN, EU, UK and US regimes interact, diverge and occasionally conflict, including the EU Blocking Regulation
* Extraterritoriality in practice - dollar clearing, US-origin content, and how secondary sanctions weaponise market access
* The OFAC 50 Percent Rule worked properly: aggregation, indirect ownership, and why multiplying down a chain gives the wrong answer
* EU and UK control tests that catch a party sitting comfortably below OFAC's ownership threshold
* Reading layered structures, nominees and the 49-percent restructuring that is a fingerprint of evasion, not a fact about safety
* Designation velocity, list sourcing and consolidation gaps, and governing list management as an evidenced control
* Name data in the real world - aliases, transliteration, name order, and the secondary identifiers that tell signal from noise
* How matching engines actually work, and why the fuzzy-threshold trade-off is a risk decision rather than a workload dial
* Testing whether screening catches, because a miss produces no alert and failures stay invisible until someone else finds them
* The payment message as a screening surface, correspondent nesting, and stripping - the gravest failure in the discipline
* Real-time screening on irrevocable instant rails, where detection after settlement records a breach it can no longer prevent
* Sectoral measures, trade finance, dual-use export controls, and the diversion that happens one hop beyond what you see
* Maritime sanctions in depth: the dark fleet, AIS gaps and spoofing, ship-to-ship transfers, and the vessel ownership chain
* Evasion typologies - front companies, third-country transshipment, trade misinvoicing, and the crypto perimeter
* Licences to their four corners, humanitarian exceptions and the over-compliance failure, wind-downs, frozen-asset duties and exits under pressure
* Investigating a breach, the voluntary self-disclosure decision, and what enforcement actions teach when read for conditions rather than facts
* Assurance that converts confidence into evidence, and board reporting that lets a board govern rather than merely be reassured
━━━ REGULATORY COVERAGE ━━━
* UN: Security Council designations and the common floor they set across national regimes
* EU: Council regulations, the consolidated list, ownership and control criteria, and the EU Blocking Regulation
* UK: the UK sanctions regime and OFSI - ownership and control guidance, reporting duties and civil penalties
* US: OFAC, the SDN and non-SDN lists, the 50 Percent Rule, sectoral measures, secondary sanctions and enforcement guidelines
* Export controls: dual-use regimes including the EU dual-use regulation and the US Export Administration Regulations
* Cross-cutting: price caps and service bans, maritime advisories on deceptive shipping practices, and designated digital-asset infrastructure
━━━ WHO THIS IS FOR ━━━
* Sanctions officers, analysts and screening operations leads ready to work the hardest files
* MLROs, nominated officers and compliance managers accountable for a sanctions programme
* Trade finance, correspondent banking and payments compliance professionals
* Commodity trading, shipping and export compliance staff dealing with maritime and dual-use exposure
* Financial crime professionals moving from AML into sanctions, where the logic is different
* Experienced practitioners preparing for regulatory examination or a banking-partner review
* Learners who have completed a foundation or intermediate AML and sanctions course and want genuine depth
━━━ CAPSTONE: THE SOLVARY FILE ━━━
The course closes by putting you in the chair. You are Head of Sanctions at a mid-sized European bank with a New York dollar-clearing correspondent, thirty days before that correspondent expects answers, and three weeks before your board's risk committee meets. One commodity client, and everything you have learned
* A designation nine days old that resolves, through a holding company, into your third-largest commodities relationship
* An ownership calculation your own analyst got wrong - and a relationship manager who has already circulated it
* Board-appointment rights that satisfy the UK control test regardless of what the arithmetic says
* A $4.2m dollar payment whose message was amended inside your own operations, two days after the designation
* A 29-year-old tanker with a 46-hour AIS gap, a draught change across it, and unverifiable insurance
* A trade corridor that materialised in seven months through a transshipment-concern jurisdiction
* A new facility request, a sectoral-listed offtaker, and a CEO asking in writing whether this can be managed without losing the client
You produce eight practitioner-level deliverables: an ownership analysis and 50 Percent Rule determination; an EU/UK ownership-and-control assessment; a payment investigation report with containment and scoping; a correspondent bank response letter; a vessel and cargo risk assessment; a pattern analysis across corridor, counterparties and controls; a wind-down, licensing and exit plan with the facility decision; and a voluntary self-disclosure recommendation with the board risk-committee paper.
━━━ CERTIFICATE ━━━
Complete all lectures, the capstone and section quizzes to earn your Udemy Certificate of Completion - shareable directly to LinkedIn and downloadable as a PDF for your CV or professional portfolio.
Who this course is for
Sanctions officers, analysts and screening operations leads ready to work the hardest files.
MLROs, nominated officers and compliance managers accountable for a sanctions programme.
Trade finance, correspondent banking and payments compliance professionals.
Commodity trading, shipping and export compliance staff facing maritime and dual-use exposure.
Financial crime professionals moving from AML into sanctions, where the logic is different.
Experienced practitioners preparing for regulatory examination or a banking-partner review.
Learners who have completed a foundation or intermediate AML and sanctions course and want genuine depth.
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