Classroom cohorts in Pretoria, Johannesburg, Cape Town · live online · in-house anywhere in South Africa
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.
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.
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
Participants leave the course with:
Learning is driven by data and cases from real compliance work. The approach includes:
The course is intended for professionals who detect, investigate or oversee financial crime risk, including:
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.
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South AfricaPretoriaNext Nov 2· 13 dates$3,200South AfricaJohannesburgNext Nov 2· 13 dates$3,400South AfricaCape TownNext Oct 26· 13 dates$3,800
KenyaNairobiNext Nov 9· 13 dates$1,500KenyaMombasaNext Oct 26· 13 dates$1,600KenyaNaivashaNext Nov 2· 13 dates$1,500KenyaKisumuNext Oct 26· 13 dates$1,500KenyaMachakosNext 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$1,900TanzaniaDodomaNext Oct 26· 13 dates$1,800TanzaniaDar es SalaamNext Oct 26· 13 dates$2,000TanzaniaZanzibarNext Nov 16· 13 dates$2,600
NigeriaLagosNext Nov 16· 13 dates$2,800NigeriaAbujaNext Nov 9· 13 dates$2,800
UAEDubaiNext Oct 26· 13 dates$3,800
GhanaAccraNext Nov 16· 13 dates$4,500Scroll sideways to see all 18 cities →
Everything you need to know about this course before you register.
Practical AML / CFT & Financial Crime Analytics Training Course runs as classroom training in Pretoria, Johannesburg, and Cape Town, South Africa, in Monday-to-Friday cohorts that start every four weeks. You can also join a live online cohort from anywhere in South Africa, or book it in-house at your organisation's own premises.
The next classroom cohort in South Africa starts on October 26, 2026 in Cape Town, and a new intake follows every four weeks in each city. Pick a city and date in the schedule panel above, then click "Register for the Course" — your seat is confirmed once payment or a signed purchase order is received.
Classroom fees for Practical AML / CFT & Financial Crime Analytics Training Course in South Africa run from USD 3,200 per delegate in Pretoria to USD 3,800. The fee covers tuition and course materials. Register 3 or more delegates together and a 5% team discount is applied automatically.
Yes — Practical AML / CFT & Financial Crime Analytics Training Course can be delivered at your offices anywhere in South Africa, or at a venue you choose, on dates that suit your team, with case studies tailored to your sector. Switch to the "In-House" tab in the schedule panel above to request a proposal.
Yes. Practical AML / CFT & Financial Crime Analytics Training Course also runs as live online training: the same curriculum as the classroom programme, taught by a trainer in real time, so you can join from anywhere in South Africa without travelling. Choose "Virtual Live" in the schedule panel above to see the online dates and fee.
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.
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.
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