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UNCLAS STATE 013094 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PTER KTFN ECON EFIN PREL KCRM
SUBJECT: COUNTERTERRORISM FINANCE: OPPORTUNITY FOR FINANCIAL 
REGULATORY TRAINING 
 
¶1.  This is an action request.  Please see paragraph 7. 
 
¶2.  The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) will hold a 
Counterterrorism Financial Regulatory training course at the FDIC 
Training Facilities in Arlington, Virginia for participants from 
addressee countries.  This training is funded by INL and S/CT, which 
co-chair the interagency Terrorist Finance Working Group.  Washington 
asks Embassies to invite host governments to participate, and to 
provide names of attendees nominated for the course.  The proposed 
dates for the training are March 10-14, 2008.  Names of proposed 
participants are requested by February 22, 2008. 
 
Background 
 
¶3.  The CT Finance Regulatory Training Course is designed for 
financial sector supervisors and regulatory staff to increase their 
knowledge of how money laundering and terrorist financing 
transactions are perpetrated, and the controls that should be in 
place in financial institutions to detect and deter these actions. 
The course will provide a basic overview of anti-money 
laundering/counterterrorist financing (AML/CTF) examination 
techniques, tools, and case studies.  The course is structured for 
multiple teams of examiners who will participate in practical 
exercises.  The course is also designed as a train-the-trainer course 
that will provide attendees with the necessary tools to return to 
their own countries and train their colleagues.  The course offers an 
excellent opportunity for countries to learn how to more effectively 
implement their respective AML/CTF programs. 
 
¶4.  In consultation with the host government, each post is encouraged 
to nominate up to four (4) officials to participate in this course. 
Candidates should be regulatory or supervisory staff at government 
financial regulatory agencies such as the central bank who deal with 
AML/CTF compliance issues AND who would be able to train their 
colleagues in the material presented.  Although ability to understand 
English is desirable, we can arrange for simultaneous translation, if 
required, to be able to include the best-placed candidates for the 
goal of enhancing a country's AML/CTF regulatory systems. 
 
¶5.  For Baghdad: We would like to extend participation to officials 
from the Kurdish regional central bank and/or regional government as 
well as from elsewhere in Iraq. 
 
¶6.  The course will be held at the FDIC's training center at 3501 
Fairfax Drive, Arlington, Virginia (Virginia Square Metro stop). The 
FDIC facility is a state-of-the-art regulatory training facility with 
a hotel for students attached to the training complex.  The FDIC will 
conduct the course with interventions from the FBI, Treasury, and 
other investigatory/regulatory agencies.  The training program is 
five days (Monday-Friday), and a block of hotel rooms has been 
reserved for the approximately 24 participants.  INL and S/CT will 
provide funding to the FDIC for students' travel, lodging and per 
diem, as well as covering the training costs. 
 
¶7.  Action Request:  Washington requests action posts to invite host 
governments to participate in this training opportunity, and to 
provide by February 22, names and identifying information (name, 
position, date of birth, passport number) of attendees, as well as 
any interpretation needs.  Please also include the name, email 
address and phone number of the person at post who will be 
responsible for nominating the candidates and taking care of 
administrative matters in connection with this request. 
 
¶8.  4. The following information will allow all Embassies to debit 
the FDIC account via the IPAC process: FDIC ALC number: 51000001; 
Appropriation Symbol 51 X 4596 0000, Bureau Code 00. Description: 
March 10-14 Intnl AML/CFT Training. Contact Name: Mary Davis FDIC 
(703)562-6200.  Embassies are authorized to charge against this 
fiscal data to purchase round-trip, coach airline tickets for 
approved participants. Embassies are further authorized to provide 
M&IE (meals and incidental expenses) for each participant based on 
actual travel dates and $150 to each participant for taxis. M&IE 
rates for the Washington are $64 for full day and $48 for travel 
days. FDIC will debit the account for lodging at the FDIC on-site 
hotel at the daily rate of $148.84. Arrival in Washington should be 
no later than March 9, 2008 and we encourage posts to arrange 
departure on March 15, not on March 14, the last day of the training 
course. 
 
¶9. The following information must be provided for each expense 
submitted to the FDIC: name of the post, name of person for whom 
charges are being submitted and the purpose of the charge. Embassies 
are further requested to send confirmed flight information and actual 
costs, as well as confirmed MI&E and taxi disbursements, to the 
points of contact for this training course: Sean Forbush at the FDIC, 
202 898-8506, sforbush@fdic.gov; and Jim Wojtasiewicz at State S/CT, 
202 647-6475, wojtasiewiczjp@state.gov. 
 
¶10.  Washington appreciates posts' support of the Counterterrorism 
Finance Training and Assistance Program and looks forward to the 
active involvement of host country candidates in the course. 
RICE