Compliance Training

Compliance awareness across your business is key to ensuring your obligations are met. Symmetry offer delivery of online and face-to-face customised compliance training and awareness suitable for your business and jurisdiction.

Online Compliance Training

Symmetry can provide awareness courses via our own online Learning Management System (“LMS”) and e-learning compliance courses. Our online compliance courses allow organisations to assign courses to staff members and managers can track the staff members progress. Each course is practical in approach and uses a mix of presentations, some real examples and short practical exercises. Benefits and features include:

• Flexibility:
  

  Our cloud-based online LMS is available to access 24/7. Staff members can complete the course online any time, whether they are in the office or working remotely.

• Scalable:
  

  Organisations can add any number of staff members to a course at any time.

• Tailored Courses:
  

  We can tailor or create the compliance training to suit the exact needs of your organisation.

• Track & Evidence Performance:

  Our LMS automatically tracks training performance across your organisation and provides audit-ready evidence of your compliance training program.

• Reduce costs:
  

  Online training is proven to significantly save on many costs involved in traditional face-to-face training (e.g. travel costs, venue hire, etc).

• Less administration:

  Using our LMS will help you reduce the administration, coordination and staff time typically required to run face-to-face training.

• Certificates:
  

  Certificates are provided on completion to all staff members.

• Local jurisdictions:

  Localised compliance training for the Irish, UK, Channel Islands and Luxembourg regulatory landscapes.

• Compliance Subject Matter Experts:

  Our compliance training content is designed by our team of experienced and qualified compliance professionals and subject matter experts. For more on our team, click here.

Face-to-face Compliance Training in Ireland

Symmetry offer tailored face-to-face compliance training to individuals or companies on-site at a location of your choosing or in our Dublin city centre offices. Each course is practical in approach and uses a mix of presentations, some real examples and short practical exercises. Benefits and features include:

• Tailored Courses:
  

  We can tailor or create a course to suit the current strategy, focus and requirements of your organisation.

• Access to Professional Trainer:
  

  Our certified trainer can answer questions related to your organisations specific

• Schedule:
  

  You can control the dates and start/end times of the course.

• Location options:
  

  On-site in your offices, in our offices in Dublin, Ireland or in a third party location as required.

• Variable class sizes:
  

  Large class sizes can be more economical for a company to run.

• Certificates:
  

  Certificates are provided on completion to all staff members.

• Quality Training and Examples:
  

  Our trainers are experienced professionals and industry practitioners, so you can be assured of high quality training and relevant real world examples.

• Takeaways:
  

  Course pack, glossary and notes, Examples and tips, Certification of completion

What compliance topics do we cover in our training?

Symmetry’s compliance experts provide online and face-to-face training in:

• Financial services regulations compliance training
• AML training (incl. CFT and Sanctions training)
• Fund compliance training for UCITS, Non-UCITS and AIFs compliance training
• Markets in Financial Instruments Directive / MIFID II training
• Payment Service Directive 2 / PSD2 training
• Consumer Protection Code / CPC training
• GDPR and data protection training
• Ethics training
• Governance and director training

What are the aims of our compliance training courses?

Overall aims of our courses include:

• Generate staff awareness of the impact of the applicable regulations
• Ensure staff understand their responsibilities and obligations
• Provide real world examples and practical steps to adhering to regulations
• Reduce your organisation’s risk of non-compliance
• Provide evidence of staff course completion

Who are the training courses aimed at?

• Symmetry compliance courses are aimed at directors, board members, senior management, managers, staff and contractors.