Quick To Learn More is the only specialist e-learning platform developed solely for counter-money laundering and anti terrorist financing training.
Technology
The Quick To Learn More e-learning platform was developed especially to facilitate delivery in low bandwidth environments viewed on legacy PCs.
Minimum point of delivery specification for internet delivery
- Internet connection min. 28.8
- 486 or equivalent processor and 8Mb RAM.
- Windows 95 (r) with browser IE5.5 / Netscape 5 or later or
- Linux with Mozilla
- No sound; VGA graphics and 14" medium resolution monitor
- Useful but not essential: e-mail
Minimum server specification for intranet delivery
- Intranet server running linux (any flavour) MySQL 4.0+, Apache Server 2.0.49+, PhP4.0+
- HDD space for all of the above plus 50Mb
- e-mail is useful but not essential
- FTP access to QuickToLearnMore for installation and updates
Compliance driven
Designed by counter-money laundering professionals to meet all compliance obligations, and maintained up to date using the resources of World Money Laundering Report: Monthly and World Money Laundering Report: Online with data resources provided by World Money Laundering Report: Resources, the most comprehensive global AML / CFT information services, QuickToLearnMore.Com provides outstanding compliance comfort.
And Generation 2, due for installation in mid 2004 (at no additional cost to users) includes even more innovative features that take compliance to the next level. For small businesses, this removes compliance headaches; for large businesses it reduces compliance costs and for international businesses, it ensures training compliance across the group, across borders, for all regulators.
Course Structure
Train your people in three modules:- A compulsory module that explains money laundering, why criminals launder money and why we need to make every effort to detect and deter money laundering.
- A jurisdiction module in two or more units (depending on jurisdiction) that sets out the law and penalties in one unit and regulations and applicable guidance in the second unit. Terms, risks and obligations are explained in accessible language.
- A market segmentation module - you don't want your people wasting time learning about business areas that are irrelevant to them. So each market segment has a specific module - e.g., private banking, trade finance, retail banking and more for bankers, accounting and audit for accountants, family law, conveyancing, corporate law and more for lawyers, dealers in high value goods, money services business and company services providers are just examples of the market segmentations available.
Educate your senior people with additional modules
A range of additional modules don't just train, they educate.
Topics include
- USA PATRIOT Act for non-US businesses
- OFAC and other US laws applicable to non-US businesses
- Issues in recognising suspicion
- Criminal behaviour: How psychology can help identify the money launderer
- Confidentiality and legal professional privilege - consideration and comparison of law in several jurisdictions - for in house legal teams, compliance officers in all affected businesses
- IMF, World Bank, OECD and the FATF: cooperation and conflicts
Easy to use
Everything about Quick To Learn More is designed to make deployment as simple as possible, to get your people into training - and therefore into compliance - as quickly as possible and to make management of the system as easy as possible. We know that many of your staff only use their computers to check e-mail or your intranet memorandum server, and then reluctantly. And so, once a user has logged on, they don't need to use anything except a mouse. And we have addressed shortcomings that other users claim are features:
- very few graphics means rapid download times even on slow connections - and we don't absorb great chunks of bandwidth;
- no sound means no heavy bandwidth demand;
- no video means no systems-breaking need for bandwidth;
- no Flash (r) or similar means faster download and, because you have people with different eyesight requirements, the user can change the size of the on-screen font;
- only the controls the user needs appear on the screen - and there are very few of those.
Administrator controls are also very simple. Reports are pre-defined and can be produced in pdf.
QuickTokens TM are the key to flexible training: you estimate the number of modules you will need in the training period and purchase prepaid tokens. As users are assigned to modules, tokens are deducted from the balance. When you need more, the system prompts you to replenish your supply. At the end of the training period, if you renew the contract, any outstanding tokens are redated to the new contract date. It's just like a pre-paid phone-card!
Languages
If you work in a multilingual environment, you don't want to have disparate systems of training across the company or group. At QuickToLearnMore.Com, you don't have to. You can deliver exactly the same training to all of your people in English or one local official language.
Your administrator can select the language choice for each individual user or globally - or you can leave it to each user to make that choice the first time he logs onto the system.
We don't make things easy for ourselves: the first non-English version we produced was Chinese. Many other languages and character sets can be produced, often at no extra charge to the customer. (Not all modules are available in multiple languages.)
Updates, case studies and maintaining awareness
We shouldn't be unkind to our competitors but sometimes we have to: a significant proportion of our competitors have signed up to the free weekly information service provided by World Money Laundering Report: Digest and some even sign up, using different members of staff, to a succession of free trials for World Money Laundering Report: Online.
And we know why - one company emphasises that its case studies are drawn from a resource containing "sanitised cases" produced by "an international body." For your information, that resource is more than two years old. And you don't have to pay that company for them: you can download them for free from The UK's National Criminal Intelligence Service and - if you want other languages, simply Google for FIU IN ACTION EGMONT and you will find copies at a wide range of Financial Intelligence Units all over the world.
At Quick To Learn More we have access to all the research of Silkscreen Consulting - which has delivered face to face training and consultancy for financial services businesses, enforcement agencies and regulators for a decade and to the newsgathering services of World Money Laundering Report. Our cases studies are up to date, interesting and relevant. And because of the access to those resources, we don't simply recite them - we explain them.
And our access to those newsgathering services means we keep abreast of developments right around the world. So we keep our content right up to date right through your contract - and we don't charge you for updates.
And, because we have access to those newsgathering services and to leading counter-money laundering consultants and strategists within our own group we have another unique advantage: we are able to deliver awareness materials included in the subscription cost. We believe that awareness should be near-constant but in small doses. Awareness messages are presently delivered in English only.
If it's too good to be true,
it's Quick To Learn More.
There is always one exception that proves every rule. If the rule is "if it's too good to be true, it probably is," then the exception is Quick To Learn More.
Pricing
For a quote, contact us now.
But don't worry - you will be pleasantly surprised. Remember, we developed Quick To Learn More specifically so as to be affordable for small businesses and for businesses in the developing world.Enquiries: Telephone:
London, England +44 (0)207 107 9512
Malaysia +6 03 2142 7588
Singapore ASEAN Bankers' Association (Chow Kheng) +65 6224 7155