AML Foundations.

1. Financial Crime: The Threat

Understand financial crime, the harm it causes and the mechanisms of money laundering, terrorist financing and proliferation financing.

1. What Are Financial Crimes?
2. Typology of Financial Crimes
3. Consequences and Impacts of Financial Crime
4. The Offences: What the Law Actually Criminalises
5. Money Laundering in Focus: Stages and Typologies
6. Terrorist Financing in Focus: The Inversion
7. Proliferation Financing in Focus: Dual-Use and Procurement

Chapter knowledge check: 70% pass threshold · Unlimited attempts

2. Risk and Risk Management

Learn what financial crime risk means and how a risk-based approach guides its assessment and management.

1. Understanding of Risk
2. What Is Financial Crime Risk?
3. Risk Management in AML/CTF+
4. The Importance of Financial Crime Risk Management
5. How Financial Crime Risk Is Managed

Chapter knowledge check: 70% pass threshold · Unlimited attempts

3. Inside a Compliance Program

Follow the core controls, from customer onboarding and ongoing due diligence to sanctions, reporting and relationship closure.

1. Understanding of Compliance Programs
2. Foundations of Compliance Programs
3. Foundations of KYC
4. Foundations of Ongoing Due Diligence
5. Sanctions Compliance
6. Reporting Suspicious Financial Activities
7. Termination of the Business Relationship

Chapter knowledge check: 70% pass threshold · Unlimited attempts

4. Financial Crime Across the Sectors

Explore how financial crime risks and compliance controls vary across major regulated sectors.

1. Understanding Different Business Sectors

Chapter knowledge check: 70% pass threshold · Unlimited attempts

5. The Framework: Who Sets and Enforces the Rules

Understand international frameworks, regulators, data protection and the consequences of non-compliance.

1. International Organisations and Frameworks
2. Who Is the Regulator?
3. Difference by Country and Industry
4. GDPR and Data Protection
5. Consequences of Non-Compliance

Chapter knowledge check: 70% pass threshold · Unlimited attempts

6. Ethics and Conduct

Connect professional ethics and standards of conduct to everyday judgement.

1. Code of Ethics and Code of Conduct
2. Comparing the Two Codes

Chapter knowledge check: 70% pass threshold · Unlimited attempts

Capstone: The Analyst’s Desk

A five-stage first-line exercise: triage customer files, recognise patterns, route concerns, communicate with a customer and prioritise a handover.

Approximately 35 minutes · 70% pass threshold · Required for progression

Final examination

50 questions · 75 minutes · 75% pass threshold · 3 attempts

Review the instructions in the learning platform before starting. Exam integrity and privacy information.

Certificate and continuing professional development

Earn the AML Foundations certificate after completing the programme requirements. The certificate does not expire. It records completion on its issue date.

12 CPD hours · CPD Standards Office · Provider 50475