HACAdemy
What is the HACAdemy ?
The HACAdemy is the newly business line developed by HACA Partners, an approved auditing firm (“Cabinet de revision agréé”), which offers services in the following matters: Internal Audit, External Audit, Regulatory & Compliance, Risk Management and Consulting.
The HACAdemy's objective is to support HACA Partners' clients and other business partners to develop skills, competencies and expertise.
The HACAdemy leverages on HACA Partners experts to facilitate tailor-made trainings in line with their core business.
Why choose the HACAdemy ?
Content and format of the trainings could be adapted according to your objectives and needs.
Case studies are designed to apply the theory.
Experienced experts from HACA Partners team (averaging more than 10 years of experience) facilitate the trainings.
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Our training library (tailored to your needs)
Training catalogue
As required by Article 46 of the CSSF Regulation 12-02, as amended and by Article 4(2) of the Law of November 12th, 2004 on the fight against money laundering and terrorist financing, professionals are required to participate to special ongoing training programmes to be informed of new developments, including information on techniques, methods and trends in money laundering and terrorist financing.
The aim of the AML/CTF Training is to help professionals to recognise operations which may be related to money laundering or terrorist financing and to instruct them as to how to proceed in such cases.
Content
The AML/CTF training focuses on the main following themes:
- AML/CTF key concepts
- AML/CTF regulatory framework
- AML/CTF applicable sanctions
- Risk-based approach
- AML/CTF main obligations
- ML/TF Risk Assessment
- Customer Due Diligences
- Internal organization
- Cooperation with the authorities
A quizz will be also part of the training.
Main Facilitators
Saïd Hadji
Managing Partner
Marc Bussutil
Partner
Raquel Tchaptchet
Senior Manager
Format
- Language: French and English
- Duration: 2 hours
- Location: your/our premises or via video-conference
- Price: from 1,500 EUR (may vary to your expectations)
- Certification: Attendance training certificate
This training aims to provide the professionals with an understanding of:
- The Market Abuse regulation
- The threats faced by regulated entities
- The internal control framework to be implemented
Content
The Market Abuse training focuses on the main following themes:
- Regulatory framework
- Key concepts: Inside Information/Insider Dealing/Market Manipulation
- Market Abuse internal control framework (including the personal transactions)
- Market Abuse suspicious transaction and order reporting (STOR)
- CSSF supervision
Main Facilitators
Saïd Hadji
Managing Partner
Cyril Cayez
Managing Partner
Raquel Tchaptchet
Senior Manager
Format
Language: French and English
Duration: 2 hours
Location: your/our premises or via video-conference
Price: from 1,500 EUR (may vary to your expectations)
Certification: Attendance training certificate
The Investment Fund Managers Risk Management (UCITS and AIFs) training will covert the following :
- The fundamentals of risk management
- The principles of governance and the role of each stakeholders
- The risk management framework
- The identification and monitoring of different risks
- The internal control framework
- The approach to create a risk matrix
- Key concerns for a Risk Management function under AIFMD
- Investment compliance and Investment Process
- Interplay between valuation and risk management function
- Liquidity risk
- Sustainability risk and interplay with ESG team
Content
The risk management training focuses on the main following themes:
- Regulatory framework
- Key concepts
- Roles & responsibilities
- Risk Management system
- Risks identification
- Risks assessment
- Risks matrix
- Risks monitoring
- Liquidity risk and Liquidity stress-testing (“LST”)
- Investment compliance
- Leverage and global exposure measurement
Main Facilitators
Cyril Cayez
Managing Partner
Samuel Clerc
Director
Format
- Language: French and English
- Duration: 8 hours
- Location: HACA Partners premises (on-site lunch)
- Price: 750 EUR per participant (min. 5 – max. 12)
- Certification: Attendance training certificate
This training aims to provide the professionals with an understanding of:
- The fundamentals of sustainable finance and “ESG”
- Key Principles of SFDR Regulation (EU) 2019/2088
- Key Principles of Taxonomy Regulation (EU) 2020/852
- Key Principles of Benchmark Regulations (EU) 2020/1816, 2020/1817, 2020/1818
- The identification and definition of related concepts;
- Recent developments and update of regulatory aspects
Content
The ESG training focuses on the main following themes:
- Regulatory framework
- Key concepts
- Roles & responsibilities
- Taxonomy global analysis
Main Facilitators
Cyril Cayez
Managing Partner
Coraline Mabilat
Senior Manager - ESG Coordinator
Clarisse Ivañez-Biessy
Manager - ESG Expert
Format
Language: French and English
Duration: 4 hours
Location: HACA Partners premises
Price: 375 EUR per participant (min. 5 – max. 12)
Certification: Attendance training certificate
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) includes provisions on staff awareness and accountability. The objective of this training is to provide professionals with an understanding of the critical GDPR requirements.
After taking the GDPR training, the participants should also be able to make sound business judgement as regards to data processing.
Content
The GDPR training focuses on the main following themes:
- Regulatory framework
- Key definitions
- Key principles
- Key actors and their roles
- The data subjects’ rights
- The data controller’s and processor’s responsibilities
- The register of processing activities
- The concepts of data protection by design and by default
- The definition of a data breach and the actions that need to be taken in case of a data breach
- Liabilities and sanctions
- Examples of sanctions by the different national supervisory authorities
Main Facilitators
Saïd Hadji
Managing Partner
Cyril Cayez
Managing Partner
Laurence Ponchaut
Senior Manager
Format
Language: French and English
Duration: 2 hours
Location: HACA Partners premises
Price: 200 EUR per participant (min. 5 – max. 12)
Certification: Attendance training certificate
This training aims to provide the professionals with an understanding of:
- What is a consolidation and when it has to be performed
- Explain the term “control” and identify whether it exists or not in various business combinations
- Prepare consolidated accounts for a basic group of companies with goodwill, fair value adjustments, non-controlling interest, and other consolidation adjustments.
Content
The training focuses on the main following themes:
- Introduction to consolidated financial statements (with key definitions)
- Consolidation principle and methods
- Process of consolidation
- Elimination of intercompany balance
- Elimination of investments
- Non-controlling interest
- Goodwill
- Foreign currency translation of financial statements
- Differed tax
- Fair value adjustment
- Presentation and content of financial statements
Main Facilitators
Ibra Ndiaye
Partner
Coraline Mabilat
Senior Manager - ESG Coordinator
Format
Language: French and English
Duration: 16 hours
Location: HACA Partners premises
Price: 900 EUR per participant (min. 5 – max. 12)
Certification: Attendance training certificate
This training aims to provide the professionals with an understanding of:
- The regulatory requirements of the delegated / outsourced activities for regulated entities
- The impacts of the regulatory requirements in terms of oversight
- The internal control framework to be implemented (e.g. initial due diligences / on-going monitoring).
Content
The oversight of delegated / outsourced activities training focuses on the main following themes:
- Regulatory framework
- Internal governance requirements (e.g. oversight and outsourcing policy, multi-year plan, outsourcing register)
- Obligation to draw up a contract
- Initial due diligence measures (i.e. list of common criteria / specific criteria)
- Ongoing monitoring (e.g. key performance indicators, one-site visit, periodic due diligences)
- Escalation process
- Reporting
Main Facilitators
Saïd Hadji
Managing Partner
Marc Bussutil
Partner
Vincent Kraske
Director
Format
Language: French and English
Duration: 4 hours
Location: HACA Partners premises
Price: 375 EUR per participant (min. 5 – max. 12)
Certification: Attendance training certificate