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AML Foundations Banking
CPD-Certified Course - Familiarize yourself with the basics: Take a closer look at various financial-related crimes and predicate offenses.
- Guiding through hazes of risk: Grasp an understanding of risk and how it can be managed.
- Decoding regulation: Learn who is responsible for regulation and AML/CTF+ rules globally and regionally.
- Insider specifics: Take a peek behind the business scenes in banking and ML/TF.
- Revisit your ethical conduct knowledge.
- Practical experience: Analyze case studies and practice concepts in AML/CTF+.
- Find out how to speak like an expert on AML/CTF+.
3 Hours of on-demand video 
22 Submodules of reading material 
30 Assignments 
Final Exam 
8.15 CPD Credits 
26 Visual Schemes 
Certificate of Completion 
2 weeks – Recommended Learning Timeline 
Certify your employees with globally recognised AML certification. AML Foundations for Banking is ideal for new hires, frontline staff, and professionals seeking a solid understanding of AML principles in the banking sector. A structured, scalable, and cost-effective way to build essential compliance knowledge and ensure regulatory alignment.
This course primarily introduces students to money laundering, terrorist financing prevention measures, and related financial crimes (AML/CTF+). It provides a strong grounding in fundamental principles, key terms, and essential skills for countering financial crime, with a focus on the banking sector, traditional financial systems, and the regulatory frameworks that govern them.
- The dirty side of finance. Revealing financial crimes as well as their sibling – predicate crimes (what they are caused by, how they work, and what trouble they cause).
- Risk talk. You will learn a lot about risk and risk management.
- The truth about compliance. How to work with risk management compliance programs; taking a look at what they include.
- Avoiding misfortune. This chapter discusses the mitigation of risks and steps to be taken when a business relationship must be finished.
- Under the skirts of banking. The importance of AML for banks and the peculiar risks that they face as a result.
- Regulators matter. Take a detailed look at the regulators, understand the rules, and learn how one misstep can ruin your day.
The course material, prepared by some of the leading experts in the field, is designed to provide a high degree of various expertise.
The learning experience is enhanced through animated videos to improve retention, along with professionally designed schemes and pictures for visualising complex topics.
Foundations: Essential knowledge for financial integrity.
The AML Foundations (ABC) for Banking course is your first step towards becoming a proficient Anti-Financial Crime Specialist in the Banking sector.
The AML Banking course is provided by the AML Certification Centre and is structured to cover the fundamentals of anti-financial crime for professionals entering or working in the banking sector. It focuses on the core principles of AML, CTF, and related compliance requirements relevant to traditional financial institutions. Here are some details about the course and its qualifications:
- Activity type: online.
- Total course time: 10 hours.
- Video duration: 3 hours.
- Materials type: videos, texts, diagrams.
- Practical materials: included.
- Quizzes: Included here too!
- Final test: made up of 30 questions.
- Final test duration: 60 minutes.
- Exam passing threshold: 80%
After successfully passing the ABC exam, you will receive a Certificate of Completion from the AML Certification Centre. It serves as a pass that shows you understand the basis behind AML/CTF+ and are ready to operate in the compliance and financial integrity sphere. It is a mark that will remind you what aspects of AML/CTF+ you should learn by heart while trying hard to do so.
- Basic computer/Internet literacy.
- B2 English.
- A desire to learn more about anti-money laundering and financial crimes of other types.
- A strong wish to work in the banking sector.
- What are Financial Crimes?
- Typology of Financial Crimes
- Consequences and Impacts of Financial Crime
- Understanding of Risk
- What is Financial Crime Risk?
- Risk Management in AML/CTF+ and Financial Crime
- The importance of financial crime risk management
- How FC risk is managed?
- Understanding of Compliance Program
- Foundations of Compliance Programs
- Foundations of KYC
- Foundations of Ongoing Due Diligence
- Sanctions Compliance
- What is Reporting of Suspicious Financial Activities (SAR/STR)?
- Termination of Business Relationship
Understanding of different business sectors
- International Organisations and Frameworks in AML/CTF+
- Who is the Regulator?
- AML/CTF+ difference by country and industry
- Consequences of non-compliance
- Importance of Code of Ethics and Code of Conduct
- Comparison of Code of Ethics and Code of Conduct
- Understanding the Banking Sector’s Business and Risks
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