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Terrorist and Proliferation Financing
Terrorist financing (TF) and proliferation financing (PF) differ from conventional money laundering in an important way: the funds involved can come from entirely legitimate sources, and the...
Fraud, Scams and Cyber-Enabled Financial Crime
Fraud and scams have moved decisively online, and the line between a 'security' problem and a 'compliance' problem has blurred — authorised push payment scams alone now account for enormous...
Money Mules and Account Misuse
Money mules — people who allow their accounts to be used to move criminal proceeds, whether knowingly or after being deceived — are one of the fastest-growing entry points for laundering fraud and...
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Suspicious Activity Reporting
A suspicious activity report (SAR) is often the single most important document a compliance function produces — it's the mechanism by which private-sector observation becomes actionable...
Transaction Monitoring and Alert Investigation
Transaction monitoring systems generate alerts, but a system alone doesn't stop financial crime — the investigator who interprets that alert against real customer context does. This course focuses...
Politically Exposed Persons
Politically exposed persons (PEPs) carry elevated financial crime risk not because they've done anything wrong, but because their public position creates opportunity for corruption or influence...
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Enhanced Due Diligence for Higher-Risk Customers
Standard due diligence is designed for the typical customer. When risk factors stack up — a high-risk jurisdiction, a complex structure, an unusual product combination, or a customer type the firm...
Beneficial Ownership and Control
Corporate structures exist for entirely legitimate reasons — tax planning, liability protection, joint ventures — but the same layers of companies, trusts and nominees that serve legitimate...
Customer Due Diligence and KYC
Know Your Customer (KYC) is often treated as a box-ticking exercise at account opening, but it's really the foundation that every later financial crime control depends on. Get it wrong at the...
AML and CFT Foundations
Anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorist financing (CFT) rules exist for a simple reason: criminals need the financial system to turn dirty money into clean-looking money, and terrorist...
Lessons Learned: Turning Failures Into Better Controls
An incident that isn't properly reviewed is guaranteed to happen again — usually in a slightly different form that the original review would have caught.
Challenging Decisions with Constructive Dissent
Disagreeing well is a skill, not a personality trait — and it's one of the most valuable skills in a compliance-sensitive environment.
Incentives, Targets and Unintended Conduct Risk
Almost no incentive scheme is designed to cause harm. Almost every one can, if the target and the metric drift apart.