7DEC
7 - 11 Dec 2026Mon to Fri · 5 days
LondonUnited Kingdom · Classroom
£4,200per delegate2+ people: £3,360 each
Professional training course · AGRC-046
Sanctions Compliance and Screening
Economic and trade sanctions have become one of the most dynamic and high-risk areas of compliance. Sanctions regimes change quickly, apply across borders and can affect…
- 5 daysClassroom
- 49Upcoming dates
- 12Cities
- £2,840Fees from
Course overview
Introduction
Economic and trade sanctions have become one of the most dynamic and high-risk areas of compliance. Sanctions regimes change quickly, apply across borders and can affect payments, trade, shipping, investments and ordinary commercial relationships. Breaches can result in heavy penalties, loss of banking relationships and serious reputational harm.
This Sanctions Compliance and Screening training course explains how sanctions work and how organisations can build an effective, risk-based sanctions compliance programme. Participants learn about the main types of sanctions, ownership and control rules, screening of customers, counterparties and transactions, alert investigation, and the handling of potential matches and breaches.
The course also covers sanctions evasion techniques, trade and shipping risks, governance, testing and the practical tuning of screening systems.
Course Objectives
By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:
- Explain the purpose and main types of economic and trade sanctions
- Understand the key international and national sanctions regimes in overview
- Apply ownership and control principles to counterparties
- Design a risk-based sanctions compliance programme
- Screen customers, counterparties and transactions effectively
- Investigate and resolve screening alerts consistently
- Recognise sanctions evasion red flags in trade and payments
- Respond appropriately to potential breaches and reporting duties
Target Audience
This training course is suitable for a wide range of professionals, including:
- Compliance and sanctions officers
- Anti-money laundering professionals
- Trade finance and payments operations staff
- Export control and logistics professionals
- Legal and risk professionals
- Internal auditors reviewing compliance programmes
- Screening analysts and investigators
Training Methodology
The course uses real-world style case studies, screening alerts and transaction scenarios. Participants practise alert adjudication, ownership analysis and red flag identification, and design elements of a sanctions programme. Discussions examine recent enforcement themes and how organisations have improved their controls.
Target Competencies
- Sanctions regime awareness
- Ownership and control analysis
- Screening programme design
- Alert investigation
- Evasion red flag recognition
- Breach response
Course outline
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1Day One: Understanding Sanctions
- The purpose of sanctions and how they are imposed
- Asset freezes, sectoral sanctions, trade and travel restrictions
- Overview of major international and national sanctions regimes
- Extraterritorial reach and secondary sanctions
- Licences, exemptions and general authorisations
- Recent trends and lessons from enforcement actions
- Quiz: identifying sanctions exposure in business scenarios
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2Day Two: Building a Sanctions Compliance Programme
- Management commitment, policy and governance
- Conducting a sanctions risk assessment
- Customer and counterparty risk factors
- Product, service, channel and geographic risks
- Roles, training and escalation arrangements
- Record keeping and documentation requirements
- Workshop: drafting a sanctions risk assessment
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3Day Three: Screening Customers and Counterparties
- Screening lists, data sources and update frequency
- Name matching, fuzzy logic and transliteration challenges
- Ownership and control rules and aggregated holdings
- Onboarding and periodic rescreening
- Tuning screening systems to reduce false positives
- Testing and validating screening effectiveness
- Exercise: analysing ownership structures for sanctions risk
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4Day Four: Transaction Screening and Alert Investigation
- Payment and trade transaction screening processes
- Investigating alerts and distinguishing true from false matches
- Documenting decisions and maintaining an audit trail
- Escalating and blocking or rejecting transactions
- Shipping, vessel and port-related sanctions risks
- Dual-use goods and export control interactions
- Exercise: adjudicating a set of screening alerts
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5Day Five: Evasion, Breaches and Programme Assurance
- Common sanctions evasion techniques and red flags
- Use of front companies, intermediaries and transshipment
- Responding to a potential sanctions breach
- Voluntary disclosure and regulatory reporting considerations
- Independent testing and internal audit of sanctions controls
- Keeping the programme current as regimes change
- Personal action plan for sanctions compliance
Schedule
Dates and fees
49 upcoming dates in 12 cities. Fees are per delegate; bring colleagues and every seat is discounted.
December 2026
LondonUnited Kingdom · Classroom
14DEC
14 - 18 Dec 2026Mon to Fri · 5 days
BarcelonaSpain · Classroom
£3,850per delegate2+ people: £3,080 each
21DEC
21 - 25 Dec 2026Mon to Fri · 5 days
FrankfurtGermany · Classroom
£3,250per delegate2+ people: £2,600 each
January 2027
4JAN
4 - 8 Jan 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
LondonUnited Kingdom · Classroom
£4,200per delegate2+ people: £3,360 each
11JAN
11 - 15 Jan 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
BarcelonaSpain · Classroom
£3,850per delegate2+ people: £3,080 each
18JAN
18 - 22 Jan 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
FrankfurtGermany · Classroom
£3,250per delegate2+ people: £2,600 each
25JAN
25 - 29 Jan 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
ParisFrance · Classroom
£4,500per delegate2+ people: £3,600 each
February 2027
1FEB
1 - 5 Feb 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
RomeItaly · Classroom
£4,250per delegate2+ people: £3,400 each
8FEB
8 - 12 Feb 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
LondonUnited Kingdom · Classroom
£4,200per delegate2+ people: £3,360 each
15FEB
15 - 19 Feb 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
BarcelonaSpain · Classroom
£3,850per delegate2+ people: £3,080 each
22FEB
22 - 26 Feb 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
FrankfurtGermany · Classroom
£3,250per delegate2+ people: £2,600 each
March 2027
1MAR
1 - 5 Mar 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
FrankfurtGermany · Classroom
£3,250per delegate2+ people: £2,600 each
8MAR
8 - 12 Mar 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
ViennaAustria · Classroom
£4,250per delegate2+ people: £3,400 each
15MAR
15 - 19 Mar 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
LondonUnited Kingdom · Classroom
£4,200per delegate2+ people: £3,360 each
22MAR
22 - 26 Mar 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
BarcelonaSpain · Classroom
£3,850per delegate2+ people: £3,080 each
April 2027
5APR
5 - 9 Apr 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
BarcelonaSpain · Classroom
£3,850per delegate2+ people: £3,080 each
12APR
12 - 16 Apr 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
FrankfurtGermany · Classroom
£3,250per delegate2+ people: £2,600 each
19APR
19 - 23 Apr 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
AmsterdamNetherlands · Classroom
£4,250per delegate2+ people: £3,400 each
26APR
26 - 30 Apr 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
LondonUnited Kingdom · Classroom
£4,200per delegate2+ people: £3,360 each
May 2027
3MAY
3 - 7 May 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
LondonUnited Kingdom · Classroom
£4,200per delegate2+ people: £3,360 each
10MAY
10 - 14 May 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
BarcelonaSpain · Classroom
£3,850per delegate2+ people: £3,080 each
17MAY
17 - 21 May 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
FrankfurtGermany · Classroom
£3,250per delegate2+ people: £2,600 each
24MAY
24 - 28 May 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
Cape TownSouth Africa · Classroom
£2,840per delegate2+ people: £2,272 each
June 2027
7JUN
7 - 11 Jun 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
LondonUnited Kingdom · Classroom
£4,200per delegate2+ people: £3,360 each
14JUN
14 - 18 Jun 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
BarcelonaSpain · Classroom
£3,850per delegate2+ people: £3,080 each
21JUN
21 - 25 Jun 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
FrankfurtGermany · Classroom
£3,250per delegate2+ people: £2,600 each
July 2027
5JUL
5 - 9 Jul 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
FrankfurtGermany · Classroom
£3,250per delegate2+ people: £2,600 each
12JUL
12 - 16 Jul 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
GenevaSwitzerland · Classroom
£5,250per delegate2+ people: £4,200 each
19JUL
19 - 23 Jul 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
LondonUnited Kingdom · Classroom
£4,200per delegate2+ people: £3,360 each
26JUL
26 - 30 Jul 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
BarcelonaSpain · Classroom
£3,850per delegate2+ people: £3,080 each
August 2027
2AUG
2 - 6 Aug 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
BarcelonaSpain · Classroom
£3,850per delegate2+ people: £3,080 each
9AUG
9 - 13 Aug 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
FrankfurtGermany · Classroom
£3,250per delegate2+ people: £2,600 each
16AUG
16 - 20 Aug 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
IstanbulTurkey · Classroom
£2,850per delegate2+ people: £2,280 each
23AUG
23 - 27 Aug 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
LondonUnited Kingdom · Classroom
£4,200per delegate2+ people: £3,360 each
September 2027
6SEP
6 - 10 Sep 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
LondonUnited Kingdom · Classroom
£4,200per delegate2+ people: £3,360 each
13SEP
13 - 17 Sep 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
BarcelonaSpain · Classroom
£3,850per delegate2+ people: £3,080 each
20SEP
20 - 24 Sep 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
FrankfurtGermany · Classroom
£3,250per delegate2+ people: £2,600 each
October 2027
4OCT
4 - 8 Oct 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
MadridSpain · Classroom
£4,250per delegate2+ people: £3,400 each
11OCT
11 - 15 Oct 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
LondonUnited Kingdom · Classroom
£4,200per delegate2+ people: £3,360 each
18OCT
18 - 22 Oct 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
BarcelonaSpain · Classroom
£3,850per delegate2+ people: £3,080 each
25OCT
25 - 29 Oct 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
FrankfurtGermany · Classroom
£3,250per delegate2+ people: £2,600 each
November 2027
1NOV
1 - 5 Nov 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
FrankfurtGermany · Classroom
£3,250per delegate2+ people: £2,600 each
8NOV
8 - 12 Nov 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
MunichGermany · Classroom
£4,250per delegate2+ people: £3,400 each
15NOV
15 - 19 Nov 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
LondonUnited Kingdom · Classroom
£4,200per delegate2+ people: £3,360 each
22NOV
22 - 26 Nov 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
BarcelonaSpain · Classroom
£3,850per delegate2+ people: £3,080 each
December 2027
6DEC
6 - 10 Dec 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
BarcelonaSpain · Classroom
£3,850per delegate2+ people: £3,080 each
13DEC
13 - 17 Dec 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
FrankfurtGermany · Classroom
£3,250per delegate2+ people: £2,600 each
20DEC
20 - 24 Dec 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
ParisFrance · Classroom
£4,500per delegate2+ people: £3,600 each
27DEC
27 - 31 Dec 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
LondonUnited Kingdom · Classroom
£4,200per delegate2+ people: £3,360 each
No dates in this city right now. Request a quotation and we will suggest the nearest date.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
How long is the Sanctions Compliance and Screening course?
The course runs over 5 days of classroom training, usually Monday to Friday.
When is the next Sanctions Compliance and Screening course?
The next public date is 7 - 11 Dec 2026 in London. There are 49 upcoming dates in total.
Where is this course held?
Upcoming sessions run in London, Barcelona, Frankfurt, Paris, Rome, Vienna, Amsterdam, Cape Town, Geneva, Istanbul, Madrid, Munich.
How much does the course cost?
Fees start from £2,840 per delegate, depending on the city. Fees include tuition and course materials.
Do participants receive a certificate?
Yes. Delegates who complete the course receive a London Leadership Management Innovation certificate of completion.
Can this course be delivered in-house for our team?
Yes. LLMI can tailor and deliver this course privately for your organisation at your premises or in one of our training cities.
Course information last updated 14 November 2026.
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