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Course Description:
This practical course explores emerging fraud risks affecting the remote gaming sector, with a focus on customer onboarding and KYC. Participants will examine identity theft, account takeover, synthetic identities, impersonation, multi-accounting, AI-generated content, deepfakes, voice cloning, and forged or manipulated documents. The session will also cover common red flags, practical authenticity checks, and a risk-based approach to reviewing suspicious information.
Target Audience:
Professionals working in AML, compliance, risk and fraud, payments, customer verification, customer onboarding, and related functions within the gaming sector.
Learning Outcomes:
- Recognise emerging KYC fraud risks and typologies affecting gaming operators.
- Identify indicators of identity theft, account takeover, synthetic identities, impersonation, and multi-accounting.
- Assess risks arising from AI-generated content, deepfakes, voice cloning, and forged or manipulated documents.
- Apply practical authenticity checks, identify common red flags, and use a risk-based review approach.
Prerequisites: A basic understanding of customer onboarding and KYC processes is recommended.
Date: 17 November 2026
Time: 09:00 – 12:15 (including 15 minutes break)
Venue: Live online session – details of how to join the meeting will be sent once registration is complete.
Fee: €100
CPE Hours: This course qualifies for 3 hours of Structured CPE which can be classified as Core Competency. A certificate of attendance will be provided at the end of the session.
Trainers:
Alex Azzopardi, Partner, Risk Consulting Advisory Services, KPMG in Malta
Alex joined KPMG in Malta in 2005 within the firm’s Audit function, where he specialised in the external audits of financial services entities. After 8 years, Alex moved to the Advisory function, where he assisted in the setting up of the Internal Audit Services line. Today, he leads engagements mainly focused on the provision of services in enterprise risk, corporate governance, regulatory compliance (including licensing), AML/CFT and internal audit services across the regulated financial services sectors and other non-regulated businesses. Alex is the Immediate Past Chairperson of the IIA – Malta, Fellow of the MIA, and a member of ISACA.
Ma. May Casimiro, Manager, Risk Consulting Advisory Services, KPMG in Malta
May joined KPMG in Malta in 2022 within the firm’s Risk Consulting Advisory practice, having previously spent over five years with KPMG Philippines, where she progressed from Associate to Assistant Manager. Throughout her career, she has specialised in AML/CFT, regulatory compliance and risk advisory services for banks, fiduciaries, fund-related structures, corporate service providers and other financial institutions across the EU, the UK and APAC. Today, May leads and manages engagements focused on AML/CFT framework reviews, CDD/EDD remediation, transaction monitoring, ML/TF risk assessments, regulatory due diligence, licensing support and internal audit. She oversees engagement delivery and multidisciplinary teams, provides risk-based advice to senior stakeholders, and supports clients in strengthening their governance and control frameworks. May is a Certified Public Accountant in the Philippines and a Core AML Trainer for the KPMG Learning Academy Malta, where she develops and delivers specialist training for industry professionals.
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