Description
This course offers an overview of Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and the global financial crime landscape, exploring key concepts, typologies, and the impact of financial crimes on economies. It covers international frameworks such as FATF, national laws like BSA, EU directives, and POCA UK, along with the roles of regulatory authorities. Participants will learn about the principles of a risk-based approach, including client and transaction risk profiling, monitoring, and case applications, enabling them to effectively identify and mitigate financial crime risks.
What you will learn
By the end of this course, you will be able to implement a successful strategy that enables you to:
- Define and distinguish between placement, layering, and integration in money laundering
- Evaluate how financial crime undermines economic stability and institutional integrity
- Interpret FATF’s 40 Recommendations and describe key international AML actors
- Compare major AML laws across jurisdictions and their implications
- Identify regulators and enforcement bodies and their oversight roles
- Analyse high-profile real world AML enforcement cases and derive practical lessons
- Apply RBA concepts to AML decision-making
- Develop customer and transaction risk profiles
- Create and evaluate a simplified AML risk assessment model

