Criminal proceeds move through banks, mobile money platforms, forex bureaux and trading companies faster than manual checks can follow. Compliance teams that rely on name screening alone miss structuring, layering through shell companies and trade-based laundering. Over five days, experienced practitioners learn how to combine sound AML and CFT controls with data analysis so that alerts are fewer, sharper and easier to defend to a supervisor.
Sessions cover the FATF Recommendations, enterprise-wide and customer risk assessment, beneficial ownership, politically exposed persons, sanctions screening and correspondent banking. The analytics days work with sample transaction data to build monitoring scenarios, test thresholds, cut false positives and visualise networks of linked accounts. You then practise case investigation, evidence handling and writing suspicious transaction reports that financial intelligence units can act on. Compliance officers, MLROs, internal auditors, risk managers, fraud investigators and regulators in banks, SACCOs, insurers, payment providers and NGOs will benefit. Delivered in the classroom, online or in-house, the programme ends with a CPD-accredited certificate and a working financial crime analytics plan.
Financial crime has become more complex as digital payments, cross-border remittances and virtual assets widen the routes open to launderers and those financing terrorism. Regulators and correspondent banks now expect institutions to prove that their controls are risk-based, tested and supported by evidence, not simply written into a policy manual. Weak programmes lead to sanctions, de-risking by partner banks and reputational damage that takes years to repair.
The Professional AML / CFT & Financial Crime Analytics Training Course takes experienced practitioners from regulatory foundations to hands-on detection. It starts with the international standards set by the Financial Action Task Force and how they translate into institutional risk assessments, customer due diligence and ongoing monitoring. It then moves to analytics: designing typologies into monitoring scenarios, profiling customer behaviour, tuning thresholds and using link analysis to expose hidden relationships. Later sessions turn to investigation techniques, escalation, record keeping and the drafting of suspicious transaction reports.
Learning is practical. Participants work through anonymised case files and transaction extracts, test their own rules and discuss the dilemmas that arise when business pressure meets compliance duty. By the end they will have a prioritised plan to strengthen detection, model governance and reporting quality in their own institution.
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
Participants leave the course with:
The programme is built around live compliance problems and uses:
Day 1: International Standards and the Risk-Based Approach
Day 2: Customer Due Diligence and Screening
Day 3: Typologies and Transaction Monitoring Design
Day 4: Financial Crime Analytics
Day 5: Investigation, Reporting and Programme Improvement
The course suits compliance and risk professionals who design, run or review financial crime controls, including:
Participants who attend the full programme and complete the practical exercises receive a CPD-accredited Certificate of Completion from Vision Reach Global Consultancy, recognising the financial crime skills they have practised.
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By the end of the Professional AML / CFT & Financial Crime Analytics programme, you'll be able to interpret the fatf recommendations and apply them to an institution's own products and customers, conduct an enterprise-wide money laundering and terrorist financing risk assessment, apply risk-based customer due diligence, including beneficial ownership and pep checks, and design transaction monitoring scenarios that reflect real laundering typologies. The full breakdown of topics is covered session by session in the Course Outline tab above.
The course suits compliance and risk professionals who design, run or review financial crime controls, including: Money laundering reporting officers and compliance officers, Transaction monitoring analysts and AML investigators, Internal auditors and risk managers in banks and insurers, Fraud and forensic investigators, Mobile money and payment service provider compliance teams, Regulators, supervisors and financial intelligence unit staff, SACCO, microfinance and capital markets compliance staff, and NGO finance and compliance managers handling cross-border funds.
Professional 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.
Professional 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 Professional AML / CFT & Financial Crime Analytics starts October 19, 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 Professional 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.
Professional 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 Professional 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 — Professional 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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