Certified Financial
Investigations & Asset
Recovery Practitioner.
FIAR is the practitioner-grade certification for financial investigators, FIU analysts, prosecutors, asset recovery officers and investigations departments in financial institutions. Built by senior law enforcement and private sector practitioners. Every module ends in a live-case simulator — under realistic time pressure.
not attendance
Programme lead Igoris Krzeckovskis served as Head of Lithuania’s Financial Intelligence Department and Chairman of the EU Council Anti-Fraud Working Group. International expert assignments for UNODC, OSCE, Council of Europe, and Egmont Group across 18+ jurisdictions. Module contributions and review by active European investigators and prosecutors.
A practitioner-grade certification for financial-crime investigators across both sectors.
Public-sector practitioners and senior private-sector investigators apply the same operational frameworks. FIAR is built for both — and is specifically not built for compliance generalists.
Law enforcement, FIU, prosecution
- Police and federal financial investigators (FBI, IRS-CI, HSI, national police)
- FIU analysts and dissemination officers (FinCEN, Tracfin, EU FIUs)
- Asset recovery and forfeiture units (ARO, US Marshals, DOJ MLARS, AGRASC)
- Customs and tax criminal-investigation units
- Prosecutors, asset-forfeiture attorneys, investigating magistrates
Investigation teams, forensic, sanctions, L&D
- Heads of Financial Crime and senior MLROs at banks, fintech, crypto exchanges
- Bank and EMI investigation teams (L1/L2/L3)
- Forensic accountants and corporate-investigations consultants
- Sanctions and asset-recovery specialists at regulated firms
- L&D leads and academies procuring cohort training
Today’s financial investigators face yesterday’s training.
Investigators worldwide are being asked to trace, freeze, and recover increasingly complex cross-border, crypto-enabled, and corporately-layered assets — with training systems largely designed for a different era of financial crime.
The assets have changed.
Crypto wallets, layered offshore structures, and stablecoin flows now sit beside traditional banking. Investigators need systematic frameworks for tracing value across instruments that did not exist a decade ago.
Most training was built for compliance, not investigation.
It assumes the learner works in a bank rather than in an investigation — and it assumes time to read procedures rather than to act under dissipation pressure.
The gap is not information — it’s systematic preparation.
Workflows, decision frameworks, operational reflexes under time pressure. Knowing what to do in the first 72 hours, not the first 72 days. FATF Immediate Outcome 8 tests exactly this — and most teams fail it not because of bad laws, but because of undertrained people.
FIAR certifies competence, not attendance.
By the end of the programme, the learner can perform — under realistic constraints — each of these operational tasks.
Seven modules. One operational discipline.
The full FIAR curriculum maps onto how investigations actually progress — from detection to recovery.
Sanctions enforcement and frozen-asset management.
Since 2022, the post-Russian-sanctions enforcement landscape has surfaced a category of work that practitioner-grade training rarely addresses: maintaining freezes through structural change, reconstructing beneficial ownership when nominees relocate, and managing portfolios of recovered assets across years of legal proceedings.
A sanctioned beneficial owner. A Cyprus trust. A Liechtenstein foundation. A trustee that just resigned to Dubai.
The freeze must be maintained. The beneficial-ownership chain must be reconstructed across two jurisdictions and two reorganisations. The frozen real-estate portfolio must be managed — rental income, maintenance, tax — without dissipating recoverable value.
Three forces are making financial investigation capability urgent — right now.
The regulatory and enforcement environment has shifted fundamentally since 2022. Institutions that delay building this capability are already falling behind in FATF evaluations and EU compliance reviews.
FATF Mutual Evaluations test people, not just laws.
Immediate Outcome 8 asks whether your jurisdiction is actually recovering criminal assets — not whether the statute exists. Poor IO.8 ratings weigh heavily in evaluations that lead to grey-listing. The gap is almost always in trained personnel, not legislation.
The EU Asset Recovery Directive must be transposed by 23 November 2026.
Directive (EU) 2024/1260 hands Asset Recovery Offices urgent freezing powers, makes the management of frozen assets a legal obligation, and creates a confiscation route for unexplained wealth. Every ARO, FIU and prosecution service in the EU is standing up these capabilities right now — and they only work with people trained to use them.
Criminal assets have moved — and most training hasn’t.
Crypto wallets, layered offshore structures, stablecoin flows, and DeFi mechanisms are now core to complex financial crime cases. Most investigator training was designed before these instruments existed.
A credential that reflects demonstrated competence.
FIAR certification is issued on the basis of assessed performance — not attendance. The credential confirms that the holder can operate across the full investigative lifecycle under realistic constraints.
We are a Team of Experts
Know exactly where your team stands — and what comes next.
FIAR was built with institutional adoption in mind. Pilot first, cohort second, institutional rollout third.
50% off list pricing — pilot programme open now.
3 seats per institution. Full programme access, certification, and reference-call coordination. Available for FIUs, AROs, police academies, customs and tax CI units, and bank investigation teams.
Pricing
Public-sector and private-sector practitioners apply the same operational frameworks and share the standard.
Public sector
For FIUs, asset recovery offices, and investigative units training teams of 10+
- Full access to all 7 modules and 13 live-case simulators
- Certification issued on demonstrated competence
- Cohort scheduling and onboarding support
- Progress reporting to management
- Framework agreements available
- 30/60/90-day invoicing terms
Private sector
For Heads of Financial Crime, senior MLROs, and L1/L2/L3 investigation teams
- Full access to all 7 modules and case simulators
- Certification issued on completion
- Lifetime access
- Corporate invoicing, VAT-compliant EU
- Volume discounts on application for 5+ seats
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know about the FIAR certification programme.
