Criminal money moves through bank accounts, mobile wallets, property deals and trading firms, and institutions that miss it face fines, lost correspondent relationships and damaged reputations. Over five days you build a first-principles grounding in how laundering and terrorist financing happen and how a compliance function stops them. Sessions explain the placement, layering and integration stages, the FATF Recommendations, the risk-based approach, customer due diligence, beneficial ownership, politically exposed persons and sanctions screening.
The second half turns to detection. You learn to read transaction patterns, build simple monitoring rules, review alerts, write a suspicious transaction report and keep a defensible audit trail. Practical exercises use spreadsheets and anonymised case files, so no coding background is needed. The programme suits new compliance officers, tellers and relationship staff, internal auditors, SACCO and microfinance managers, mobile money supervisors, lawyers and accountants who handle client funds. It runs in a classroom, online or in-house, and ends with a CPD-accredited certificate. Afterwards you can explain your obligations, risk-rate a customer, and escalate unusual activity with confidence.
Financial institutions, regulators and development partners now treat weak anti-money laundering controls as a serious business risk. A single failure can lead to regulatory penalties, de-risking by correspondent banks and exclusion from international payment networks. At the same time, criminals adapt quickly, using shell companies, trade invoices, digital wallets and cash-intensive businesses to hide the origin of funds. Staff at every level therefore need a clear picture of what the rules require and what suspicious behaviour looks like in daily work.
The Fundamentals of AML / CFT & Financial Crime Analytics Training Course starts with the basics: the nature of predicate offences, the three stages of laundering, how terrorist financing differs, and the international framework set by the Financial Action Task Force and its regional bodies. Participants then work through the compliance programme step by step, including enterprise risk assessment, customer onboarding, ongoing monitoring, record keeping, staff training and reporting to the financial intelligence unit. The analytics component introduces data preparation, pivot tables, thresholds, peer-group comparison and link charts so that participants can interrogate transaction data themselves.
Teaching is practical and paced for newcomers. Short briefings are followed by case files, red-flag exercises and a closing simulation in which participants investigate a set of linked accounts and draft a report for the money laundering reporting officer.
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
Participants leave with:
The programme is paced for newcomers and kept hands-on through:
Day 1: Understanding Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing
Day 2: The International and Regulatory Framework
Day 3: Customer Due Diligence and Sanctions
Day 4: Detecting Suspicious Activity with Data
Day 5: Reporting, Records and Building a Programme
The course suits staff and professionals who are new to financial crime compliance, including:
On completing all five days and the practical exercises, participants are awarded a CPD-accredited Certificate of Completion by Vision Reach Global Consultancy.
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By the end of the Fundamentals of AML / CFT & Financial Crime Analytics programme, you'll be able to describe how money laundering and terrorist financing operate and why they harm institutions and economies, explain the fatf recommendations and how the risk-based approach shapes a compliance programme, carry out customer due diligence, including beneficial ownership checks and politically exposed person screening, and assign customer and product risk ratings and decide when enhanced due diligence applies. The full breakdown of topics is covered session by session in the Course Outline tab above.
The course suits staff and professionals who are new to financial crime compliance, including: New compliance and anti-money laundering officers, Bank tellers, customer service and relationship staff, Credit and operations officers in banks and SACCOs, Microfinance and mobile money supervisors, Internal auditors and risk analysts, Lawyers, accountants and real estate agents who handle client funds, Staff of regulators, supervisory bodies and financial intelligence units, and NGO finance officers managing donor and remittance flows.
Fundamentals of AML / CFT & Financial Crime Analytics Training Course typically runs as 5 Days. It's available as in-person classroom, live virtual, and in-house corporate training — every course can also be delivered on-site for your team on dates that suit you.
Fundamentals of AML / CFT & Financial Crime Analytics Training Course is scheduled in-classroom in Nairobi, Kenya, Mombasa, Kenya, Naivasha, Kenya, and Kisumu, Kenya, and 14 other locations, plus a live interactive virtual classroom you can join from anywhere. Check the schedule panel above for exact upcoming dates and fees in each location.
The next live virtual cohort of Fundamentals of AML / CFT & Financial Crime Analytics starts October 12, 2026, with new classroom cohorts also running on a rolling basis. Pick a date and location in the schedule panel above, then click "Register for the Course" — it takes a few minutes and your seat is confirmed once payment or a signed purchase order is received.
Yes — delegates who meet the attendance requirement receive a Certificate of Completion for Fundamentals of AML / CFT & Financial Crime Analytics Training Course from Vision Reach Global Consultancy, issued in the name you register with, so double-check the spelling at checkout.
Fundamentals of AML / CFT & Financial Crime Analytics Training Course is pitched at beginner professionals. If you're unsure whether it's the right fit for your current role or background, message our training advisors before you register and they'll help you confirm.
Fees for Fundamentals of AML / CFT & Financial Crime Analytics Training Course vary by delivery location and format and are shown in real time in the schedule panel above once you pick a date. Register 3 or more delegates on the same course together and a 5% team discount is applied automatically — larger cohorts can request a custom corporate quote.
Yes — Fundamentals of AML / CFT & Financial Crime Analytics Training Course can be delivered on-site at your offices (or virtually for distributed teams), with case studies and examples tailored to your industry and the specific challenges your team is working through. Switch to the "In-House" tab in the schedule panel above to request a proposal.
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