Professional English for Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs)

Business English as a Second-Language, Foreign-Language or First-Language for FIUs, Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs), etc

What you’ll learn

You will learn practical words and phrases, in English, related to the Financial Intelligence Unit and Law Enforcement environments.
You will learn the correct contextualisation of words and phrases in English, related to the Financial Intelligence Unit environment.
Your learning, practice and growth through this course will ensure that you’re well-equipped to communicate in English professionally, confidently, and with enhanced understanding and interpretation-skills.
You will gain an understanding into the operations of Financial Intelligence Units.
You will gain an understanding of operational and strategic intelligence analysis.
You will expand your geographical knowledge, in English, by learning the countries and capital cities of the world, nationalities of the world, languages of the world and currencies of the world – as well as how all of these relate to the intelligence and law enforcement environments.
You will learn intelligence analysis, compliance and legal terms and their meanings, in English, relating to Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs) and Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs).
You will learn about the roles of Financial Intelligence Units in anti-money laundering, anti-terrorist financing and the combatting of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction financing.
You will gain knowledge of English grammar, interpretation and contextualisation – geared toward use in a Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) and Law Enforcement Agency (LEA) environment.
You will learn about the international perspective pertaining to Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) work.
You will be able to understand, correctly pronounce and apply hundreds of English words, phrases and concepts commonly used in the FIU professional business environment.
You will be able to contextualise English words, phrases and concepts commonly used in the FIU professional business environment.
You will enhance your listening skills of the spoken English word – this is an invaluable tool for interviewing, rapport-building, effective meeting-engagement, correct interpretation, etc.
You will be able to speak English confidently, effectively and to add value during meetings, presentations, working-groups, conferences and other situations in the FIU professional business environment.
You will be equipped to produce professional, succinct, purposeful writing in the FIU business environment.

Requirements

Be able to read and understand English at a pre-intermediate level (minimum).
Have a basic knowledge of/interest in Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs), anti-money laundering (AML) and, or, the countering of terrorist financing (CFT) activities, organised crime and the illicit economy.

Description

Anti-money laundering (AML), anti-terrorist financing (TF), and the combatting of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction financing efforts are of crucial value in a global environment experiencing increasing levels of organized crime and a perpetually expanding illicit economy.

This specialized language course – based entirely on open-source information and on Sharmilla’s professional experiences in teaching, investigations, analysis, and research – will be of vital value and of continued benefit to any English-second-language/English-foreign-language/English-first-language professional currently working in, or hoping to enter, a Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) or similar industry committed to Anti-Money-Laundering (AML), Anti-Terrorist-Financing (TF), and anti-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction activities – such as, amongst others: the Banking Sector, Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs), and Intelligence Services and Tax Authorities.

Your learning, practice, application, and growth through this course will ensure that you’re well-equipped to communicate in English professionally, confidently, and with enhanced understanding and interpretation-skills.

You will be able to more effectively apply your language-skills not only for yourself as an individual or with colleagues in your own FIU, but also with the widest range of stakeholders, including – but not limited to, for example: banking institutions, law enforcement agencies, other intelligence, investigative and prosecution services, tax authorities, multi-disciplinary task-teams, other FIUs, as well as at regional and international body meetings and conferences.

The course may additionally be of interest and of worth to English-first-language professionals currently working in, or hoping to enter, a Financial Intelligence Unit/the Banking Industry/Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs)/Intelligence Services – as even though the primary purpose and intent of the course is to teach a language, a large portion of the content covered is specialized to be FIU and organized-crime-specific, and may therefore possibly serve as a very high-level refresher/introduction to FIU/the Banking Industry/Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs)/Intelligence Services dynamics and operations, specifically in terms of anti-money laundering and anti-terrorism financing efforts.

The course may further be of high-level benefit as an invaluable induction-resource to new recruits of FIUs/the Banking Industry/Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs)/Intelligence Services, for the above-mentioned reasons.

Who this course is for:

Anyone aiming to improve their English proficiency in an Anti-Money-Laundering (AML)/Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) context.
Intermediate-level English as a Second Language (ESL)/English as a Foreign Language (EFL) professionals currently working in a Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU)/the Banking Industry/Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs)/Intelligence Services.
Intermediate-level English as a Second Language (ESL)/English as a Foreign Language (EFL) professionals and university students, hoping to enter a Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU)/the Banking Industry/Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs)/Intelligence Services.
English-first-language professionals currently working in a Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU)/the Banking Industry/Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs)/Intelligence Services.
New recruits of Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs)/the Banking Industry/Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs)/Intelligence Services, with Intermediate-level English as a Second-Language (ESL)/English as a Foreign-Language (EFL), or English as a first language proficiency.

STUDENT FEEDBACK AND REVIEWS

Winstone Gabriel: Very in detail ESL course. English is my second language. I learned a lot. I watched Ozark on Netflix – now I understand it better! I recommend it!

Zoey Maven: Wow! What a great business English course! But I learned SO MUCH more too – geography, crime, money laundering, etc… The presenter has thought-out the course very nicely. I will recommend it to my fellow co-workers and even friends…

Prahlad Ali: Brilliant! Thank you!

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ABOUT INSTRUCTOR

Sharmilla Gajan

International ESL Teacher

English as a Second Language (ESL) / English as a Foreign Language (EFL) Teacher, Trainer, Master Coach, BA, MTRP.

Sharmilla is from South Africa, who identifies with being a global citizen.

She is an International English as a Second Language (ESL) / English as a Foreign Language (EFL) Teacher, Trainer and Master Coach with a neutral English accent. Sharmilla has worked in a Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) for over 11 years; as a Special Investigator of organized crime, within a National Directorate of Special Operations, for over 3 years; and in a National Department of Trade and Industry for approximately 3 years.

Some of her experience includes teaching English as a Second/Foreign Language; the investigations of organized criminal activities; operational as well as strategic analysis and research within a FIU; and domestic/national as well as international FIU work.

In addition to being a teacher, having been a mentor, supervisor, and manager has allowed Sharmilla to have first-hand experience with not only guiding communications in terms of report-writing, understanding, interpretation, analysis, professional speaking, and presentation, etc., but it has also provided her opportunities to identify basic mistakes which seem to be common amongst second-language/foreign-language English speakers.

Having spent many years working intensively in the domain of International FIU Cooperation, has graced Sharmilla with the opportunity of being able to appreciate the tremendous value of common-understanding – and most especially in the FIU-domain – the precise, accurate, succinct and timorous interpretation and communication of information.

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