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A structured compliance curriculum built for the realities of emerging markets. Five FATF-aligned learning tracks — all free, all assessed, all certificated.
Fundamentals & The Risk-Based Approach
Why these rules exist — and what money laundering actually looks like in your market.
AML in Practice: Safeguarding Our Economies from the Inside
A foundational AML course covering the mechanics of money laundering, customer due diligence, transaction monitoring, suspicious activity reporting, and the regulatory framework. Five modules with a final assessed examination.
Seeds of Wisdom: Financial Literacy for Africa
Twenty-two story-based chapters for community leaders, savings group facilitators, and NGO field staff. Covers money management, mobile banking, small business finance, climate-smart planning, and fraud awareness. No prior financial education required.
Local Typologies: Mobile Money, Hawala & Trade-Based Laundering
Region-specific examples of how money is laundered across Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia — through agricultural payments, informal value transfer systems, and mobile wallet structuring. Designed to ground the RBA in real-world emerging market patterns.
The Risk-Based Approach: Allocating Compliance Resources Effectively
How to design and apply a risk-based approach that focuses finite compliance resources on the highest risks — rather than treating every customer the same. Covers risk scoring, tiered controls, and how to justify RBA decisions to regulators.
Customer Identification — KYC & CDD
Knowing your customer: from simplified due diligence to beneficial ownership.
AML & Sanctions for Kenya's Real Estate Sector
POCAMLA-focused course for estate agents, developers, and lawyers. Six modules covering sector-specific risk, CDD obligations, beneficial ownership, sanctions screening, and reporting requirements under Kenya's AML framework.
AML & Sanctions for Real Estate in Emerging Economies
DNFBP obligations for real estate professionals across Africa and Asia. Six modules on transaction risk, CDD for high-value property, beneficial ownership identification, and the regulatory landscape across key emerging market jurisdictions.
AML & Sanctions Compliance Training for NGOs
Built for the specific risk environment of NGOs and not-for-profit entities. Six modules on ML/TF risks for NGOs in high-risk jurisdictions, partner due diligence, sanctions screening, and sector-specific regulatory obligations.
Customer Due Diligence: Essentials for Emerging Markets
Standard CDD and Simplified Due Diligence (SDD) frameworks designed for emerging market realities — covering identity verification without formal documents, tiered onboarding, and how to meet regulatory standards while supporting financial inclusion.
Enhanced Due Diligence & Politically Exposed Persons
EDD protocols for high-risk clients — Politically Exposed Persons, grey-listed jurisdiction customers, and complex corporate structures. Includes source of wealth and source of funds verification procedures relevant to emerging market institutions.
Ultimate Beneficial Ownership: Seeing Through Shell Structures
Identifying who actually owns or controls a company behind layers of nominee directors and shell firms. Covers FATF Recommendation 24, regional UBO registry requirements, and practical techniques for penetrating complex ownership chains.
Sanctions & Targeted Financial Sanctions
Screening, asset freezing, and proliferation financing — your legal obligations.
Gatekeepers: A Practitioner's Sanctions Compliance Course
Six modules for financial institution staff and compliance analysts. Covers the architecture of the international sanctions system, customer screening, alert investigation, confirmed match procedures, and the regulatory framework governing sanctions obligations.
Strategic Sanctions Leadership
Advanced course for compliance managers and MLROs. Six modules on sanctions programme design, risk governance, complex investigations, crisis management, board communication, and performance management. Recommended prerequisite: Gatekeepers or equivalent experience.
Proliferation Financing: Weapons, Controls & Your Obligations
Training on preventing the financing of weapons of mass destruction — a FATF priority under Recommendation 7. Covers UN Security Council resolutions, the indicators of proliferation financing risk, and the practical controls institutions must implement.
Digital Assets, Crypto & AML — The VASP Framework
How AML/CFT obligations apply to virtual asset service providers and digital asset platforms. Covers FATF R.15, the Travel Rule, VASP definitions, wallet screening, red flag indicators, and the emerging regulatory landscape for crypto in Africa and Asia.
Transaction Monitoring & Reporting
Red flags, SARs, and the legal framework for reporting — where the detective work happens.
A to Z of Financial Crime Red Flags
Comprehensive alphabetical reference covering more than 80 red flag indicators across customer behaviour, transaction patterns, business structures, and jurisdictional risk. A practical tool for alert review, CDD, and staff training — not a course, but an always-available reference.
Transaction Monitoring: Building Effective Alert Frameworks
How to design, calibrate, and operate a transaction monitoring programme that reflects the actual risk profile of your customer base — including mobile wallet behaviour, seasonal cash flows, and remittance patterns common in emerging market institutions.
Writing Effective SARs and STRs for Your FIU
How and when to file a Suspicious Activity Report or Suspicious Transaction Report with your national Financial Intelligence Unit. Covers the legal threshold for reporting, the structure of an effective SAR narrative, and common errors that reduce FIU utility.
Tipping-Off: Legal Obligations & Practical Protocols
The legal danger of telling a customer they are under investigation — and the practical systems that prevent accidental disclosure. Covers the tipping-off offence under national AML legislation, internal communication protocols, and how to manage customer-facing staff during an active investigation.
Governance & Local Regulatory Context
The AMLCO role, national risk assessments, record keeping, and board-level accountability.
Three Lines of Defence: Guardians at the Gate
Six modules examining the three lines of defence model in AML, sanctions, and financial crime risk. Covers governance architecture, the roles and responsibilities of each line, how they interact, and the structural failures that expose institutions to regulatory action.
The Strategist's Edge: Mastering Financial Crime Risk
Advanced course for senior compliance professionals addressing free trade zone risk, trade-based money laundering, and sanctions evasion — three of the most technically demanding areas of financial crime compliance and the most significant risks in emerging market correspondent banking.
AML & Sanctions Compliance Glossary
Reference glossary of key terms across AML, sanctions, and financial crime compliance — regulatory terminology, technical concepts, jurisdiction-specific definitions, and abbreviations that appear throughout compliance frameworks and regulatory guidance.
Anqa AML Smart Screen: Watchlist Screening Methodology
Technical explanation of how Anqa's screening algorithm works — name matching logic, confidence threshold calibration, and false positive reduction without compromising effectiveness. For compliance professionals evaluating or overseeing automated screening infrastructure.
The AMLCO: Role, Independence & Personal Liability
The AML Compliance Officer's legal role, the independence requirements that protect their function, and the personal liability they carry under national AML legislation. Designed for current and aspiring AMLCOs across Africa and Asia, where personal liability frameworks are tightening.
National Risk Assessments: Applying Your Country's NRA
How to read and apply your country's National Risk Assessment — the document that defines the specific money laundering and terrorist financing risks your institution is expected to address. Covers how the NRA shapes the regulatory expectations that govern your compliance programme.
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