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Subject:

Countering Terrorist and Proliferation Financing: Obligations, Red Flags, and Best Practices for Obliged Entities 

Language:

English

Date & Time:

Date

Webinar time

23/11/2026

14:00 – 17:15

Speaker:

Jason M. Blazakis

Professor of the Practice Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey

Director - Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism

Mr. Jason Blazakis is Professor of the Practice in Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, where he is also Executive Director of the Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism. He is an Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute's Centre for Finance and Security and teaches at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland. From 2008 to 2018, he served as Director of the Office of Counterterrorism Finance and Designations at the U.S. Department of State. He advises governments and international organizations on targeted financial sanctions, AML/CFT, and export controls. He is the author of Terror Disrupted, published by Cambridge University Press in 2026.

Webinar Description:

Terrorist financing and proliferation financing do not behave like money laundering. The funds can be clean, the amounts small, and the transactions designed to look like ordinary commerce. Controls built only to detect criminal proceeds will miss them. This webinar equips obliged entities in Cyprus to recognize and manage these risks in practice. It covers the EU and UN framework that governs targeted financial sanctions, the preventive and customer due diligence measures firms are expected to apply, and the red flags that signal terrorist or proliferation financing. Case studies show how these schemes have used companies, professional services, and trade channels.

Agenda

1. The Cyprus legal framework: EU and UN obligations for obliged entities
2. How money laundering differs from terrorist and proliferation financing
3. Preventive measures and customer due diligence: what to apply, when, and to what extent
4. Terrorist financing red flags
5. Proliferation financing red flags
6. Case studies

Who should attend:

The webinar is addressed to all CBA and ICPAC members as well as other interested parties.

Participation fee:

€60 (incl. VAT)

CPD units:

The webinar corresponds to 3 CPD/AML units for full attendance.

Registration & Certificates:

CBA members who attend the seminar in its entirety will have their CPD units automatically recorded by the Cyprus Bar Association (CBA). Therefore, no certificates of attendance will be issued to CBA members.

Advocates must log in to their CBA account as ADVOCATES before registering to the seminar. Please do not register as a GUEST. 

Non-CBA Members may register for the seminar as GUESTS.  Those who wish to receive a certificate of attendance should, after attending the seminar and within 2 weeks, send their request at aml@cba.org.cy.  

Registrations will close on Thursday 19^th November 2026 at 23:59.  

An email will be circulated on Friday 20^th November  2026, providing the access link and instructions on how to join the Webinar.   The presentation by Mr. Jason M. Blazakis will also be shared on the same day, to allow participants sufficient time to review the material and prepare better for the Webinar.