September 20: Standard Chartered Bank organised a correspondent banking academy workshop in association with Nepal Rastra Bank in Kathmandu on September 18.

The objective of the Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) Senior Management workshop was to equip the organisations' senior-most leadership with knowledge about financial crime risks and responses with third parties, such as the organisations' regulators and partners, the bank said in a statement. 

“The workshop largely dealt with issues and updates in the field of emerging risks leading from financial crime and to create awareness around compliance and best practices for mitigation of potential risks.  In depth discussions were held on prevention of money laundering and how banks are likely to be used as a conduit for funding terrorist activities,” the statement said.  

The governor of Nepal Rastra Bank, Dr Chiranjibi Nepal delivered the concluding note by highlighting the importance of banks in mitigating the risk posed by financial crime in today's world.  The workshop was earlier inaugurated by Shiba Raj Shrestha, deputy governor of Nepal Rastra Bank.

The workshop was facilitated by Ramu Paudel, head of FIU, NRB and resource persons from Standard Chartered Jodie Arthur, head of Financial Crime Compliance, ASEAN & South Asia and Shivaraman Subramanian, regional head of Correspondent Banking South Asia. 

According to the bank, the workshop was attended by the chairman of the Board of Directors, directors representing the Risk Management Committee and/or AML/CFT committees and chief executives of A-Class commercial banks in Nepal.