Professional learning

Develop specialist
AML practice.

Deeper, applied learning for compliance, financial crime and risk professionals. The professional pathway is in development and will be released module by module.

  • In development
  • Builds on the free Foundations course
  • Practitioner tools in every lesson
  • Author: Dr Imran Rasool Khan, CAMS, CGSS
View course See the planned modules

Designed for people in or moving into

  • MLRO and deputy MLRO roles
  • Financial crime and compliance leadership
  • Sanctions and screening roles
  • Investigations, monitoring and assurance

One programme, released module by module

Each module will work as a short course on its own. Together they form one professional programme.

In development12 module themes

From risk assessment to review readiness

The programme follows the full AML, CFT and sanctions lifecycle: risk assessment and due diligence, monitoring, investigations and reporting, international standards and cooperation. Modules will be released only when each one is complete and reviewed.

Risk assessmentCDD / EDDMonitoringInvestigationsSanctions

In every lesson: a focused Essentials section, a knowledge check and a Specialist Tools pack with checklists and worked examples.

How every lesson is built

  1. Why it matters
  2. Key definitions
  3. How the process works
  4. Common weaknesses
  5. Better controls
  6. What good looks like to a supervisor

Planned module themes 12

The areas the programme will cover. Module titles and order will be confirmed before release, and nothing here is for sale yet.

  • Professional programmeModule themeFoundationsPurpose, core concepts, harm, responsibilities and professional judgement.ModulePlanned
  • Professional programmeModule themeRisk-based approach, KYC, CDD and EDDRisk assessment and due diligence, including higher-risk treatment.ModulePlanned
  • Professional programmeModule themeBanking products and servicesProducts, services, customers and the laundering methods that exploit them.ModulePlanned
  • Professional programmeModule themePayments, wires, remittances and cardsPayment channels, intermediaries and value-transfer risks.ModulePlanned
  • Professional programmeModule themeCorrespondent banking and tradeRelationship exposure, trade finance and trade-based schemes.ModulePlanned
  • Professional programmeModule themeSanctions and targeted financial sanctionsScreening, restrictions, governance and decisions.ModulePlanned
  • Professional programmeModule themeInvestigations and STR/SAR reportingReview, investigation, suspicion decisions and reporting.ModulePlanned
  • Professional programmeModule themeDNFBPsRisks and controls across designated non-financial sectors.ModulePlanned
  • Professional programmeModule themeMonitoring and analyticsDetection, data quality, tuning, governance and improvement.ModulePlanned
  • Professional programmeModule themeInternational standards and supervisionStandards, supervisory expectations and implementation.ModulePlanned
  • Professional programmeModule themeEnforcementConsequences, institutional responses and lessons from failures.ModulePlanned
  • Professional programmeModule themeInternational cooperation and asset recoveryCooperation, tracing, restraint, confiscation and return.ModulePlanned

Other planned programmes 2

Separate programmes under consideration. Scope, assessment and release will be confirmed before either is offered.

  • Separate programmeProfessionalSanctions screeningFrom the foundations of sanctions to screening decisions, ownership and control, potential matches, escalation, permissions and record quality.Scope to be confirmedPlanned
  • Separate programmeProfessionalVirtual assets and crypto financial crimeBusiness models, typologies and controls for virtual-asset activity.Scope to be confirmedPlanned

Start with the foundations.

The free core course is the recommended first step for every learner.

View course See foundational learning