Live Online Practical AML / CFT & Financial Crime Analytics Training Course
Live online, instructor-led · next cohort Nov 2, 2026 · from USD 800
Criminals move money through trade invoices, mobile wallets, shell companies and cash-intensive businesses, and institutions that miss the signs face sanctions, de-risking and lost correspondent relationships. Over five days, compliance teams learn to find suspicious activity in the data itself rather than waiting for an alert to be handed to them. Sessions cover customer risk scoring, typologies for money laundering and terrorist financing, monitoring rules and thresholds, sanctions screening and the drafting of suspicious transaction reports.
Hands-on labs use Excel and Python to profile transactions, tune alert scenarios, cut false positives and visualise networks of linked accounts. Case files are drawn from banking, mobile money, forex bureau and remittance settings. The programme suits AML and compliance officers, financial intelligence and fraud analysts, internal auditors, risk managers and investigators working in banks, SACCOs, insurers, payment providers and regulators. It runs in classroom, online or in-house formats and ends with a CPD-accredited certificate. Afterwards you can build a monitoring scenario, test how well it performs and document an investigation that stands up to supervisory review.
At a Glance
How Live Online Training Works
Live online training, led by a trainer in real time, for participants anywhere.
More about live online training →- Format
- Live online, instructor-led
- Duration
- Mon - Fri (5 Days)
- Fee
- USD 800 (KES 80,000)
- Next start dates
- Nov 2, 2026, Nov 30, 2026, Dec 28, 2026
- Certificate
- Certificate of Completion
- What you need
- A computer with a reliable internet connection, a webcam and a headset
About this course
Financial crime has become a data problem. Volumes of payments, mobile transfers and trade transactions are far beyond what manual review can cover, while regulators and the Financial Action Task Force framework expect institutions to show that their controls are risk-based, tested and effective. Teams that rely on default vendor rules often drown in false alerts and still miss the patterns that matter.
The Practical AML / CFT & Financial Crime Analytics Training Course gives compliance and investigation staff a working analytical toolkit. It starts with the money laundering and terrorist financing cycle and the risk assessment that should drive every control. It then moves into customer and product risk scoring, transaction profiling, scenario design and threshold tuning, followed by sanctions and watchlist screening, network analysis and case management. The final sessions concentrate on turning findings into clear suspicious transaction reports and management information.
Participants work through realistic datasets rather than slides. They clean and explore transaction files, test rules against known cases, measure alert quality and present their conclusions as they would to a money laundering reporting officer or board committee. Each person finishes with a documented scenario, a tuned set of thresholds and an improvement plan for their own institution.
Training Objectives
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Explain how money laundering and terrorist financing typologies appear in transaction data.
- Conduct a risk-based assessment of customers, products, channels and geographies.
- Design and document monitoring scenarios with defensible thresholds.
- Analyse transaction files in Excel and Python to isolate unusual behaviour.
- Reduce false positives by testing and tuning alert rules against known cases.
- Apply sanctions and watchlist screening with sound match-handling decisions.
- Map relationships between accounts, people and entities to expose hidden networks.
- Write suspicious transaction reports that are factual, complete and timely.
What you'll learn
Key Takeaways
Participants leave the course with:
- A documented monitoring scenario with rationale, thresholds and test results.
- A reusable Excel and Python workbook for profiling transaction files.
- A customer risk scoring template adaptable to their own product range.
- A checklist for assessing alert quality and tracking false-positive rates.
- A model suspicious transaction report built from a worked case.
- A short improvement plan for strengthening analytics in their institution.
Training Methodology
Learning is driven by data and cases from real compliance work. The approach includes:
- Facilitator-led demonstrations of each analytical technique
- Computer-based labs using anonymised transaction datasets
- Case files drawn from banks, mobile money operators and remittance firms
- Group investigations that end in a written report
- Peer review of scenarios and thresholds
Day 1: Financial Crime Risk and Typologies
- Placement, layering and integration in modern payment channels
- Terrorist financing methods and how they differ from laundering
- FATF recommendations and the risk-based approach
- Enterprise-wide and customer-level risk assessment
- Typologies in banking, mobile money, trade and real estate
- Case study: reading a laundering scheme from the data
Day 2: Data Preparation and Customer Risk Scoring
- Sourcing and cleaning customer and transaction data
- Know-your-customer data quality and beneficial ownership
- Building a customer risk scoring model
- Politically exposed persons and high-risk sectors
- Segmenting customers into peer groups
- Lab: profiling a transaction file in Excel
Day 3: Transaction Monitoring Scenarios
- Rule-based scenarios: structuring, rapid movement and round amounts
- Setting thresholds and calibrating against peer behaviour
- Above-the-line and below-the-line testing
- Measuring alert quality and false-positive rates
- Introduction to anomaly detection with Python
- Lab: designing and tuning a scenario
Day 4: Screening, Networks and Investigation
- Sanctions, watchlist and adverse media screening
- Fuzzy matching and handling name-match decisions
- Link analysis between accounts, devices and entities
- Visualising money flows and nominee structures
- Case management and evidence gathering
- Exercise: tracing a network of linked accounts
Day 5: Reporting, Governance and Improvement
- Writing a clear suspicious transaction report
- Tipping-off, confidentiality and record retention
- Management information and board reporting on financial crime
- Model governance and validation of monitoring tools
- Preparing for supervisory inspections
- Personal action plan and course review
The course is intended for professionals who detect, investigate or oversee financial crime risk, including:
- AML/CFT compliance officers and money laundering reporting officers
- Transaction monitoring and sanctions screening analysts
- Fraud and forensic investigators
- Internal auditors reviewing compliance controls
- Risk managers in banks, SACCOs and microfinance institutions
- Mobile money, payment service and forex bureau compliance staff
- Financial intelligence unit and regulatory analysts
- Insurance and capital markets compliance professionals
Participants who attend the sessions and complete the practical labs receive a CPD-accredited Certificate of Completion issued by Vision Reach Global Consultancy, confirming their training in financial crime analytics.
Choose Where You Want to Learn
Practical AML / CFT & Financial Crime Analytics Training Course Venues
KenyaNairobiNext Nov 9· 13 dates$1,500- KenyaMombasaNext Oct 26· 13 dates$1,600
- KenyaNaivashaNext Nov 2· 13 dates$1,500
- KenyaKisumuNext Oct 26· 13 dates$1,500
- KenyaMachakosNext Nov 2· 13 dates$1,600
UgandaKampalaNext Nov 2· 13 dates$1,900
RwandaKigaliNext Oct 26· 13 dates$1,900
TanzaniaArushaNext Nov 9· 13 dates$1,900- TanzaniaDodomaNext Oct 26· 13 dates$1,800
- TanzaniaDar es SalaamNext Oct 26· 13 dates$2,000
- TanzaniaZanzibarNext Nov 16· 13 dates$2,600
NigeriaLagosNext Nov 16· 13 dates$2,800- NigeriaAbujaNext Nov 9· 13 dates$2,800
South AfricaPretoriaNext Nov 2· 13 dates$3,200- South AfricaJohannesburgNext Nov 2· 13 dates$3,400
- South AfricaCape TownNext Oct 26· 13 dates$3,800
UAEDubaiNext Oct 26· 13 dates$3,800
GhanaAccraNext Nov 16· 13 dates$4,500
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Frequently Asked Questions About Live Online Practical AML / CFT & Financial Crime Analytics Training Course
Everything you need to know about this course before you register.
By the end of the Practical AML / CFT & Financial Crime Analytics programme, you'll be able to explain how money laundering and terrorist financing typologies appear in transaction data, conduct a risk-based assessment of customers, products, channels and geographies, design and document monitoring scenarios with defensible thresholds, and analyse transaction files in excel and python to isolate unusual behaviour. The full breakdown of topics is covered session by session in the Course Outline tab above.
The course is intended for professionals who detect, investigate or oversee financial crime risk, including: AML/CFT compliance officers and money laundering reporting officers, Transaction monitoring and sanctions screening analysts, Fraud and forensic investigators, Internal auditors reviewing compliance controls, Risk managers in banks, SACCOs and microfinance institutions, Mobile money, payment service and forex bureau compliance staff, Financial intelligence unit and regulatory analysts, and Insurance and capital markets compliance professionals.
Practical 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.
Practical 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 Practical AML / CFT & Financial Crime Analytics starts November 2, 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 Practical 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.
Practical AML / CFT & Financial Crime Analytics Training Course is pitched at intermediate 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 Practical 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 — Practical 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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