Perhaps take a look at the 'Three Cup Shuffle Trick' article on the Articles page. This provides an introduction to what financial crime is, why people commit such crimes, how it is committed, why prevention is important and how to prevent it. It also explains why Follow The Money is our name and why the Three Cup Shuffle Trick is our logo.

Within the Rules section, there are links to legislation, cases and other material relating to best practice. For more structured learning, training can be designed and/or delivered to ensure that obligations (and risks to achieving them) are understood as well as ensuring that your organisation's strategy for achieving them is also understood. Well written policies and procedures are also vital to ensure that, long after training, actions taken are consistent with relevant obligations and the organisation's strategy - such documents serve as an ongoing 'training' reference tool.

On the Templates page, there are links to forms and checklists for specific tasks that may be helpful to use either 'out of the box' or as inspiration for creating your own templates. To ensure successful implementation, policies and procedures can be drafted (or reviewed if they have already been drafted). It is also vital to ensure that training on such policies and procedures is provided if they are to be applied successfully in practice.

So, it all looks good on paper - policies written, procedures written and training provided etc, but is it working? To answer that, it is important to have timely access to relevant (and meaningful) management information that shows where efforts need to be focused and as an early warning of any emerging problems. However, there are times when a more active approach is necessary to provide assurance that all is well (or not as the case may be) and an independent healthcheck can be beneficial for your own peace of mind and to reassure any relevant stakeholders (including regulators).