Certificates in Advanced Financial Crime
Advanced Financial Crime certificates targeted towards employees of financial institutions, financial intelligence units, law enforcement and public-sector agencies and multinational corporations.
Developed by ManchesterCF, these courses provide an international perspective on subjects of importance to anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing compliance professionals and financial investigators.
Registration to the courses include access to the digital textbook, online assessment, and digital Credly badge awarded for course completion with a score of 80% or higher. This purchase is for 1- year access to the content.
Fees
Registration fee to each Advanced Financial Crime Certificate – $1,199 (includes learning materials and exam entry)
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Advanced Financial Crime: Trade-Based Money Laundering (AFC-TBML)
The Trade-Based Money Laundering certificate examines how the mechanics of traditional trade finance and supply chain finance products in international banking can be abused for money laundering purposes. Detailed case studies, examples and red flags are included to help deepen understanding of the risks. By completing this course, individuals will be able to identify the patterns of possible trade-based money laundering activity and report any concerns up the chain of command.
Advanced Financial Crime: Correspondent Banking (AFC-CB)
This training certificate is designed for individuals working in correspondent banking sales, payments, operations, risk management, audit and AML compliance within financial institutions. Case studies examine bank supervisory and regulatory enforcement actions and explore the impact these actions have on the operation of a global correspondent banking business in modern world financial markets. Individuals are trained on what to look for to enable knowledge to be acquired and transferred to the workplace.
Advanced Financial Crime: Private Banking (AFC-PB)
The Private Banking certificate has been created to place critical knowledge into the hands of private bankers so they can recognise the potential patterns of financial crime. The course covers the fundamentals of financial crime, terrorist financing, PEPs and corruption as well the risks associated with various investment products. For markets that demand the implementation of a risk-based approach, targeted training is mandatory, not optional.
Advanced Financial Crime: Capital Markets (AFC-CM)
The Capital Markets course analyses the patterns of money laundering, fraud and terrorist financing within global equity, fixed income, currency and commodity markets.
It provides in-depth training to investment dealer staff on recognising and defending against financial crime vulnerabilities. The course covers how money is laundered in capital markets, risk management strategies, financial fraud, terrorist financing and resourcing, know your customer and detection.
Advanced Financial Crime: Terrorist Financing (AFC-TF)
This certificate is international in approach. It provides a comprehensive overview of the legislative environment that informs CFT; examines terrorist groups that can evolve and change; explores emerging terrorist threats including radicalised individuals and violent extremists; outlines the important role financial intelligence plays before and after terrorist attacks.
Methods on how financial institutions can bolster their defences and prevent misuse by people or entities linked to terrorism are also explored in this program.
Advanced Financial Crime: Fundamental AML (AFC-AML)
The Fundamental AML training certificate has been developed to help FIUs and compliance teams strengthen their defences against financial crime and harden the foundation of their AML compliance regime and risk management strategies.
By completing this course, actionable, practical AML skills can be gained, improving confidence and efficiency in roles within AML. The course covers, money laundering typologies, how to assess risk, terrorist financing and resourcing, regulatory trends and reporting.
Advanced Financial Crime: Economic Sanctions (AFC-ES)
The Economic Sanctions training certificate advises participants on the purpose of sanctions, the consequences of non-compliance and methods that can be used to detect and mitigate sanctions risk. Financial intelligence professionals recognise that criminals and terrorists are becoming ever-more resourceful in their ways of moving funds across borders by abusing banking products.
The course looks at the legal and regulatory environment, circumvention typologies as well as the consequences of sanction breaches.
Advanced Financial Crime: Human Trafficking (AFC-HT)
The Human Trafficking certificate advises participants on suspicious financial patterns that may indicate potential human trafficking. Detailed case studies, examples and red flags are examined. The course starts with a look at the fundamentals, the legal environment, as well as fraud and identify theft.
The course also explores ways financial metrics and data can link victims, their captors and financial institutions. These links can form key components of a law enforcement investigation and the recovery of exploited victims.
Advanced Financial Crime: Report Writing (AFC-RW)
The Report Writing training certificate helps participants understand the purpose and uses of reports and offers techniques on how to eliminate extraneous or irrelevant details when reporting. The importance of logic, structure and clarity of language is examined.
Working with standard report templates, participants are given the tools to prepare effective and readable reports and are coached on best practices in the preparation of report-summary presentations.
Advanced Financial Crime: Critical Thinking (AFC-CT)
With a focus on scenarios and examples, the Critical Thinking training certificate encourages participants to sharpen their thinking skills so that issues can be recognised early and resolved effectively.
The course examines the basic thinking process and helps individuals develop the skill set required to identify problems, understand environmental factors, generate appropriate solutions and implement those solutions within the workplace. The course contains practical examples, learning activities and solvable problems.
Advanced Financial Crime: Environmental Crime (AFC-EC)
The Environmental Crime training certificate advises participants on suspicious financial patterns that may indicate the trafficking of illegal environmental resources. This is a specialised area with organisations seeking knowledgeable staff who can help mitigate the risk.
Through detailed case studies, examples and red flags, the course covers environmental crime offences, as well as hazardous waste, illegal logging and mining, how the proceeds of crime are laundered, links with other crimes, detection and reporting.
Advanced Financial Crime: Corruption (AFC-CO)
The Corruption training certificate examines real-life case studies to help individuals defend their organisation against corruption scandals that could have severe reputational consequences. International research, industry-specific examples and red-flag indicators are incorporated as well as how to identify and mitigate the threat.
The various dimensions of corruption are explored including procurement risk, conflict of interest and civil service; all areas where financial institutions can encounter corruption from both external and internal channels.
Advanced Financial Crime: Wildlife Trafficking (AFC-WT)
In collaboration with the Royal Foundation’s United for Wildlife taskforce, this comprehensive certificate has assembled a with detailed case studies, examples and red flags to advise course participants on suspicious financial patterns that may indicate the illegal trade of wildlife.
The course covers vulnerable jurisdictions and targeted species, laundering the proceeds of trafficking, links to other crimes, international guidance, detection and reporting.
Advanced Financial Crime: Cryptoassets (AFC-CA)
This insightful cryptoassets training certificate is created In partnership with Elliptic. It explores the current virtual asset landscape and identifies weak points where nefarious actors may try to strike.
Through detailed case studies, examples and red flags, this course trains participants on their risk-based due diligence obligations as well as on suspicious financial patterns that may indicate the misuse of cryptoassets for sanctions evasion and other financial crimes.
Advanced Financial Crime: Art & Antiquities (AFC-AA)
In partnership with the Antiquities Coalition this certificate is created to provide financial crime compliance professionals with the skills and knowledge needed to effectively combat money laundering through the buying and selling of art and antiquities.
This course looks at ways these non-financial instruments are used to integrate the proceeds of crimes into the legitimate financial system. It also examines how bad actors looking to evade economic sanctions use art and antiquities and methods on how financial institutions can bolster their defences and prevent misuse by criminals.
Advanced Financial Crime: Financial Investigations (AFC-FI)
The Financial Investigations training certificate focuses on fundamental financial investigation best practices that apply to law enforcement and financial institution stakeholders. This course examines who conducts financial investigations, for what purpose or end-game and best practices for developing investigative methodologies.
The training is designed to enhance the skills to analyse, investigate, report, disrupt and, to the extent possible, prevent the flow of illicit funds while conducting financial investigations.
Advanced Financial Crime: Open Source Intelligence (AFC-OSI)
The open source intelligence certificate trains financial investigators and AML professionals on honing techniques to find critical information regarding money laundering, terrorist financing and national security threats. It includes guidance on how to use search engines effectively, safely and with anonymity.
Methods on how to conduct forensic name searches to verify information and identity of natural persons are also examined. By conducting proper open source intelligence searches, relevant and comprehensive client data can be collected and used in investigations.
Advanced Financial Crime: Proliferation Financing (AFC-PF)
This certificate has been developed to furnish financial intelligence and compliance professionals with the skills and knowledge needed to effectively combat proliferation financing.
This course examines money laundering techniques used to transfer value between buyers and sellers of WMD components, international banking transactions that can be routed through offshore financial centres and ways that individuals and entities attempt to obscure their identities and their roles as beneficial owners in trade transactions.
Advanced Financial Crime: Real Estate (AFC-RE)
The Real Estate certificate looks at the ongoing misuse of the real estate sector to advance money laundering schemes and other criminal aims. With a look at the regulatory environment for real estate transactions, methods on how financial institutions and real estate businesses can bolster their defences and prevent misuse by criminals are examined.