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AML and sanctions training for teams

Practical programmes for banks, payment and fintech firms, exchange houses, designated non-financial businesses and other regulated organisations, built around your risks, your procedures and the evidence your teams need to produce.

Online, in person or blended · Tailored to your jurisdiction and sector · Templates and tools your teams keep

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How an engagement starts

  • A short discovery call about your risk profile, priority gaps and preferred format
  • A tailored programme outline, delivery plan and list of the outputs your teams will produce
  • Delivery, assessment and a final review of what has been put in place

Programmes

Modular programmes that can be combined and adapted to your teams. Each module ends with clear outputs: templates, checklists and examples of good documentation.

  1. FoundationalAML/CFT essentialsThe risk-based approach, customer due diligence and enhanced due diligence, beneficial ownership, ongoing monitoring, suspicious transaction reporting decisions, record keeping, governance and culture.
  2. SpecialistSanctions and targeted financial sanctions screeningScreening governance, list management, tuning, alert triage, investigation workflows, escalation and reporting, quality assurance and audit trails.
  3. ProfessionalFinancial crime controls in practiceEnterprise-wide risk assessment, customer risk rating, product and channel risk, control effectiveness testing and the Three Lines Model in practice.
  4. SpecialistInvestigations and caseworkTypologies and red flags, narrative writing, evidence packs and decision logs that stand up to review.
  5. OptionalVirtual assets and the travel ruleGovernance and controls for virtual asset exposure, risk scenarios and operational requirements.

Ways to work with us

Choose a format that fits your timetable, or combine them into a programme across the year.

  1. 60–90 minutesExecutive briefingFor boards and senior management: supervisory expectations, current themes in your region and the controls to prioritise.
  2. 1–2 daysCapability workshopHands-on sessions that produce work your teams keep, such as a risk assessment refresh, a sanctions screening governance pack or an investigation playbook.
  3. 4–8 weeksBlended programmeAn in-person or live online start, structured online modules, applied labs and a final readiness review.
  4. Through the yearAnnual refreshQuarterly updates on regulatory themes, typologies and control improvements.

Tailored to your jurisdiction and sector

Every programme starts from the international standards and is then adapted to the rules and risks that apply to you.

  • Local requirements. We reflect the laws, regulator guidance and reporting routes that apply to you, together with your own policies and procedures.
  • Your risk profile. Examples and controls are calibrated to your customers, products, channels, geographies and delivery models.
  • Your systems. Training connects to how your transaction monitoring, screening, case management and reporting work in practice, including documentation standards and management information.

Sectors

  • Banking
  • Exchange houses
  • Remittance
  • Payments and fintech
  • Securities
  • Insurance
  • Real estate
  • Precious metals and stones
  • Professional services

Jurisdictions

Jurisdictions we tailor for include the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. Our country guides show how we approach a national regime.

What your teams take away

The aim is lasting capability, so every engagement leaves behind material your teams can use the following week.

  • An updated AML/CFT risk assessment pack, or a structured plan to refresh it, with clear risk drivers and mitigation mapping.
  • Reusable templates and checklists, such as CDD and EDD decision trees, investigation worksheets, sanctions screening governance and tuning checklists, and STR drafting checklists.
  • Operating playbooks and escalation routes that match your governance and local reporting requirements.
  • A common language and control baseline across business, compliance, risk, audit and technology teams.

How progress is measured

Short diagnostics before and after training, completion and assessment results, use of the tools, and control-quality indicators agreed with you at the start.

Optional support

Help to embed what was learned into your policies, procedures and control testing.

Sample programmes: Saudi Arabia

Two programmes prepared for Saudi audiences show how a programme is structured. Each is adapted to the participants and updated to the current Saudi framework before delivery.

Saudi Arabia · FinTech

AML/CFT and crypto-exposure controls for FinTechs

8 hours · 4 sessions of 2 hours · Live online, hybrid or in person in Saudi Arabia

For: compliance and MLRO teams, onboarding and KYC, transaction monitoring and investigations, fraud and risk operations, internal audit and product owners.

Modules

  1. Saudi FinTech risk picture and setting up the risk-based approach
  2. CDD, EDD and beneficial ownership in FinTech onboarding
  3. Crypto exposure: wallet ownership, source of funds and risk mitigation
  4. Transaction monitoring and investigation standards
  5. STR governance, escalation and evidence-led narratives
  6. Sanctions and proliferation financing controls
  7. Governance, audit readiness and working with the regulator

Includes four case studies, module quizzes, a final assessment and a toolkit of templates.

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Saudi Arabia · Real estate

AML/CFT programme for the real estate sector

10–12 hours · 4 sessions or a 2-day intensive · Live online, with an optional venue in Saudi Arabia

For: brokers licensed by the Real Estate General Authority (REGA), developers and project sales offices, property management and leasing businesses, and payment partners serving real estate.

Modules

  1. The Saudi regulatory landscape for real estate AML/CFT
  2. Customer onboarding: identity, authority and purpose
  3. Beneficial ownership and complex structures
  4. Payments, source of funds and third-party risk
  5. Crypto payments in real estate
  6. Suspicion management, STR decisions and confidentiality
  7. Targeted financial sanctions for real estate
  8. Capstone: an end-to-end deal simulation

Includes five Saudi-context case studies, module quizzes, a capstone exercise and a practical toolkit.

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For background on the national regime, see the Saudi Arabia AML/CFT country guide.

Who leads the training

Programmes are designed and led by the author of LearnAML’s courses.

Dr Imran Rasool Khan

CAMS · CGSS · Fulbright scholar

Dr Khan is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and Certified Global Sanctions Specialist (CGSS). His experience includes work on FATF action plans, AML/CFT governance and professional training.

His programmes connect the international standards with the practical judgement that compliance work requires: what to look for, when to escalate, and how to show what was done and why. More about LearnAML

LearnAML is an independent education platform. References to FATF and other bodies describe the standards the programmes teach; they do not imply endorsement by those organisations. Training is educational and is not legal advice.

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