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Financial Crime Compliance: AML and KYC Fundamentals

Learn the fundamentals of anti-money-laundering work: the rules, the risk-based approach, customer due diligence and KYC, sanctions screening, and monitoring and reporting.

  • Format Online, self-paced
  • Scope 6 modules and a capstone
  • Duration About 8 h
  • Cost Quote on request

About this course

The course explains money laundering and terrorist financing, the rules, the risk-based approach, customer due diligence and KYC, sanctions screening, and monitoring and reporting. The capstone is a KYC file review.

  • Practice on real tasks and an applied assignment
  • Graded final assessment

A certificate that lists the skills is issued when the final assessment is passed and the applied assignment is submitted.

Content

  1. Module 1

    Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing

  2. Module 2

    The Rules

  3. Module 3

    The Risk-Based Approach

  4. Module 4

    Customer Due Diligence and KYC

  5. Module 5

    Sanctions Screening

  6. Module 6

    Monitoring and Reporting

  7. Module 7

    Capstone: A KYC File Review

Who it is for

  • Staff in financial services and fintech
  • AML career-changers

Fee and registration

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Price Tell us which Skills courses and how many learners, and we send you a quote. Larger orders get volume pricing, and there is no minimum purchase.
Quoted on request
What a license covers Any license can be used on any Skills course: you choose the course when you assign it to a named learner.
One learner on one Skills course
What you need Skills course licenses sit on top of user licenses: a learner has to be a user on the platform.
A TechClass subscription
Access A license is used when it is assigned, whether or not the learner finishes. Unused licenses stay valid for 12 months from purchase.
12 months from assignment

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  1. Request a quote

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  2. Add your people

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  3. Assign a license to each learner

    Your admin assigns a license from the pool to each named learner on this course. The learner then has 12 months to complete it, at their own pace.

Education organizations and continuous learning departments: a plan of their own, paid per completion and with learner support, is in preparation. Contact us to discuss your program.

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Financial Crime Compliance: AML and KYC Fundamentals FAQ

Per learner, per course. You buy Skills course licenses as a pool, on top of your user licenses, and your admin assigns one to a named learner on whichever Skills course they need. A license is used when it is assigned, whether or not the learner finishes.

Skills course licenses are quoted on request. Tell us which courses and how many learners you have in mind, and we send you a quote. Larger orders get volume pricing, and there is no minimum purchase.

Yes, with one license for each course. Licenses come from the same pool, so any license can be assigned to any Skills course, and all the licenses in one order count towards the volume price.

About 8 hours of guided learning, in modules, at the learner's own pace. Access lasts 12 months from the day the license is assigned.

Yes. A certificate that lists the skills is issued when the final assessment is passed and the applied assignment has been submitted.

A piece of real work that puts the skills to use. An employee does it on their own job and team; a learner without a suitable workplace does it on a provided case company. The learner checks it against a rubric, and a manager can review it.

No. Every Skills course stands on its own and restates what it relies on, so a learner can start with it directly.

The course is the same for companies and education organizations. A plan for continuous learning departments, paid per completion and with learner support, is in preparation.

English, at this stage.

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Learn the fundamentals of anti-money-laundering work: the rules, the risk-based approach, customer due diligence and KYC, sanctions screening, and monitoring and reporting.

Full table of contents

Financial Crime Compliance: AML and KYC Fundamentals

7 modules · 24 sections

Module 1 Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing

  1. 1.1 The stages of money laundering
  2. 1.2 Typologies
  3. 1.3 Terrorist financing and proliferation financing: how they differ
  4. 1.4 Predicate offences, and fraud as a source of proceeds

Module 2 The Rules

  1. 2.1 The FATF Recommendations
  2. 2.2 The EU framework: the move from the AML Directives to Regulation (EU) 2024/1624, applying from 10 July 2027, and the new AML Authority
  3. 2.3 National supervision and reporting, with Finland as the worked example
  4. 2.4 Who is an obliged entity, and what it must have in place

Module 3 The Risk-Based Approach

  1. 3.1 Business risk assessment
  2. 3.2 Customer, product, channel and country risk factors
  3. 3.3 Policies, controls and the compliance officer's role
  4. 3.4 Documenting and reviewing the approach

Module 4 Customer Due Diligence and KYC

  1. 4.1 CDD and EDD
  2. 4.2 Beneficial ownership
  3. 4.3 Politically exposed persons
  4. 4.4 Ongoing due diligence and record-keeping

Module 5 Sanctions Screening

  1. 5.1 Sanctions regimes: EU, UN and national lists
  2. 5.2 Screening customers and payments
  3. 5.3 Handling a match: true hits, false positives and escalation
  4. 5.4 Freezing, reporting and record-keeping duties

Module 6 Monitoring and Reporting

  1. 6.1 Transaction monitoring
  2. 6.2 Suspicious activity reports
  3. 6.3 Tipping-off and confidentiality
  4. 6.4 Training, testing and independent review of the program

Module 7 Capstone: A KYC File Review