Regulators, correspondent banks and development partners now expect financial institutions to prove that their anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing controls work in practice, not just that a policy exists. Weak customer due diligence, noisy monitoring systems and poorly evidenced reports expose institutions to penalties, de-risking and loss of trust, while overloaded compliance teams struggle to separate genuine risk from false alarms.

The Planning and Implementation of AML / CFT & Financial Crime Analytics Training Course follows the life of a compliance programme. It starts with national and institutional risk assessment, then moves through customer onboarding, ongoing monitoring, sanctions and watchlist controls, and the handling of alerts and escalations. The second half introduces analytics: how to design detection scenarios, measure their effectiveness, profile customer behaviour, map networks of related accounts and recognise typologies such as trade-based laundering, mobile money layering and shell-company structures.

Participants work with anonymised datasets and case files in spreadsheets and simple query tools, so no programming background is needed. They finish the week with a draft implementation plan, a prioritised list of monitoring scenarios and a reporting template they can take back to their compliance function.

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Plan an AML/CFT programme around an enterprise-wide risk assessment and the FATF risk-based approach.
• Apply customer due diligence, enhanced due diligence and beneficial ownership checks proportionately to risk.
• Design and tune transaction monitoring scenarios that balance detection against false positives.
• Configure sanctions and watchlist screening and resolve potential matches consistently.
• Analyse transaction data to profile behaviour and identify links between accounts and parties.
• Investigate alerts and write suspicious transaction reports with clear grounds for suspicion.
• Build an implementation roadmap covering governance, resources, systems, training and assurance.

The course suits professionals who design, run or oversee financial crime controls, including:

• Compliance officers and money laundering reporting officers
• Financial crime investigators and fraud analysts
• Internal auditors reviewing AML/CFT controls
• Risk managers in banks, insurers and capital market firms
• Mobile money, payment service and forex bureau compliance staff
• Financial intelligence unit and regulator analysts
• SACCO and microfinance compliance and operations managers
• Lawyers and accountants advising on anti-money laundering obligations

Participants leave with practical outputs, including:

• A draft institutional money laundering and terrorist financing risk assessment.
• A short list of monitoring scenarios with thresholds and tuning notes.
• An alert investigation checklist and a suspicious transaction report template.
• A method for measuring alert quality and reporting results to the board.
• A phased implementation roadmap with owners, resources and milestones.
• The ability to explain analytics findings to non-technical management and examiners.

Delegates learn by doing, with theory kept to what the next exercise needs:

• Facilitator-led briefings on regulatory expectations and detection techniques
• Hands-on labs using anonymised transaction datasets in spreadsheets and basic queries
• Case files that follow a suspicious relationship from onboarding to report
• Small-group design workshops for scenarios, policies and rollout plans
• Peer review of draft reports and action plans

On completing the programme, participants receive a CPD-accredited Certificate of Completion issued by Vision Reach Global Consultancy.

The certificate is awarded for full attendance and completion of the practical labs and the closing action-plan presentation.