Regulatory Compliance
Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Compliance Masterclass
This five-day programme prepares compliance professionals to build, run, and defend a financial crime control framework, covering the FATF framework, risk assessment, customer due diligence, sanctions and monitoring, investigations and reporting, and programme governance. Participants develop skills in risk rating, alert triage, SAR drafting, and inspection readiness.
Introduction
Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Compliance Masterclass Training Course prepares compliance professionals to build, run, and defend a financial crime control framework. Participants work through the FATF framework, risk-based assessment, customer due diligence, sanctions screening, transaction monitoring, alert investigation, suspicious activity reporting, and programme governance as one connected system. The programme links supervisory expectations with the controls, evidence, and reporting that meet them. As a result, learners gain a practical command of AML compliance. Furthermore, the course strengthens investigative judgement, typology awareness, and inspection readiness.
Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Compliance Masterclass Course Objectives
- Explain the international AML and CTF framework and its supervisory bodies.
- Apply the risk-based approach and complete a business-wide risk assessment.
- Apply customer due diligence (CDD), enhanced due diligence (EDD), and simplified due diligence.
- Identify beneficial ownership and screen politically exposed persons (PEPs).
- Apply sanctions screening and manage false positives and list updates.
- Design transaction monitoring rules, thresholds, and alert scenarios.
- Investigate alerts, document decisions, and file SARs and STRs.
- Recognise money laundering typologies and emerging risks.
- Apply correspondent banking, trade finance, and virtual asset AML controls.
- Apply programme governance, training, independent testing, and audit readiness.
Course Methodology
- Interactive sessions built on AML compliance cases and real typologies.
- Workshops on risk assessment, due diligence files, and screening tuning.
- Group exercises on alert triage, SAR drafting, and typology analysis.
- Hands-on practice with risk matrices, case files, and monitoring scenarios.
- Simulation of a supervisory inspection and a complex investigation.
- Facilitator coaching and peer review on personal compliance frameworks.
Who Should Take This Course
- AML compliance officers and money laundering reporting officers (MLROs).
- Compliance managers and analysts in banks and financial institutions.
- KYC, onboarding, and periodic review specialists.
- Sanctions and transaction monitoring analysts.
- Internal auditors covering AML and financial crime controls.
- Consultants advising on AML programmes and regulatory remediation.
Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Compliance Masterclass Course Outlines
The Global AML/CTF Framework
- • Money laundering stages: placement, layering, and integration.
- • Terrorist financing and proliferation financing methods.
- • FATF recommendations, mutual evaluations, and grey lists.
- • EU AML directives, the AMLD package, and national law.
- • The role of financial intelligence units and supervisors.
- • Penalties, personal liability, and enforcement trends.
- • Case discussion: a bank fined for programme failures.
Risk Assessment and Customer Due Diligence
- • Business-wide and customer risk assessments.
- • Risk factors: customer, product, geography, and channel.
- • Customer due diligence (CDD) and enhanced due diligence (EDD).
- • Simplified due diligence and when it applies.
- • Beneficial ownership, complex structures, and trusts.
- • PEP, adverse media, and sanctions screening at onboarding.
- • Workshop: completing a high-risk customer due diligence file.
Sanctions and Transaction Monitoring
- • Sanctions regimes: OFAC, UN, EU, and UK lists.
- • Name, payment, and trade screening and list management.
- • Fuzzy matching, thresholds, and false positive reduction.
- • Transaction monitoring rule design and scenario coverage.
- • Structuring, smurfing, and unusual activity indicators.
- • Alert triage, escalation, and case prioritisation.
- • Exercise: tuning a monitoring scenario and triaging alerts.
Investigations, Typologies, and Reporting
- • Investigation methodology and evidence handling.
- • Money laundering typologies: trade-based, shell companies, mules.
- • Correspondent banking and payable-through account risks.
- • Virtual assets, crypto typologies, and the travel rule.
- • Suspicious activity reports (SARs) and suspicious transaction reports (STRs).
- • Tip-off rules, consent, and confidentiality duties.
- • Simulation: investigating a complex case and drafting a SAR.
Programme Governance and Inspection Readiness
- • The three lines model and AML governance structure.
- • Policies, procedures, and the compliance monitoring plan.
- • Training, awareness, and competence requirements.
- • Independent testing, internal audit, and remediation plans.
- • Record keeping, data retention, and management information.
- • Preparing for supervisory inspections and responding to findings.
- • Capstone: presenting an AML compliance programme and roadmap.
Conclusion
By successfully completing Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Compliance Masterclass, participants will gain a practical command of the AML/CTF framework, risk assessment, customer due diligence, sanctions screening, transaction monitoring, investigations, and reporting. They will acquire skills in risk rating, alert triage, SAR drafting, typology recognition, and programme governance that strengthen financial crime defences. Gentex Training Center designs the programme to help professionals meet supervisory expectations with confidence.
FAQs
— What is the "Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Compliance Masterclass" course about?
It prepares compliance professionals to build, run, and defend a financial crime control framework. The course spans the global AML/CTF framework, risk assessment and customer due diligence, sanctions and transaction monitoring, investigations, typologies and reporting, and programme governance and inspection readiness.
— What are the key benefits of the "Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Compliance Masterclass" course?
You gain a practical command of AML compliance that connects supervisory expectations with operational controls. The course improves risk assessment and due diligence quality, strengthens screening and monitoring effectiveness, sharpens investigative and reporting judgement, and gives you governance that stands up to inspection.
— What skills will I gain from the "Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Compliance Masterclass" course?
You will develop four core skills: applying the AML/CTF framework with business-wide risk assessment, customer and enhanced due diligence with beneficial ownership and PEP screening, sanctions screening and transaction monitoring with alert triage, and investigation with SAR drafting and typology recognition.
— What tools, methods, or standards are covered in the "Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Compliance Masterclass" course?
The course covers the FATF recommendations and mutual evaluations and grey lists, the EU AML directives and AMLD package, financial intelligence unit and supervisor roles, money laundering stages of placement, layering and integration, terrorist and proliferation financing methods, business-wide and customer risk assessments, risk factors across customer, product, geography and channel, customer due diligence (CDD), enhanced due diligence (EDD) and simplified due diligence, beneficial ownership identification and complex structures and trusts, PEP and adverse media screening, OFAC, UN, EU and UK sanctions regimes, name, payment and trade screening and list management, fuzzy matching and thresholds and false positive reduction, transaction monitoring rule design and scenario coverage, structuring and smurfing and unusual activity indicators, alert triage and escalation and case prioritisation, investigation methodology and evidence handling, typologies for trade-based laundering, shell companies and money mules, correspondent banking and payable-through account risks, virtual asset typologies and the travel rule, suspicious activity reports (SARs) and suspicious transaction reports (STRs), tip-off rules and consent and confidentiality, the three lines model and AML governance, compliance monitoring plans, training and competence requirements, independent testing and internal audit and remediation, and record keeping, data retention and management information.
— How is the "Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Compliance Masterclass" course applied in real-world practice?
Participants apply it to real work such as completing a business-wide risk assessment, preparing a high-risk customer due diligence file, tuning a monitoring scenario and triaging alerts, investigating a complex case and drafting a SAR, and preparing an AML programme for supervisory inspection. The same methods support remediation planning and typology-based risk reviews.
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Introduction
Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Compliance Masterclass Training Course prepares compliance professionals to build, run, and defend a financial crime control framework. Participants work through the FATF framework, risk-based assessment, customer due diligence, sanctions screening, transaction monitoring, alert investigation, suspicious activity reporting, and programme governance as one connected system. The programme links supervisory expectations with the controls, evidence, and reporting that meet them. As a result, learners gain a practical command of AML compliance. Furthermore, the course strengthens investigative judgement, typology awareness, and inspection readiness.
Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Compliance Masterclass Course Objectives
- Explain the international AML and CTF framework and its supervisory bodies.
- Apply the risk-based approach and complete a business-wide risk assessment.
- Apply customer due diligence (CDD), enhanced due diligence (EDD), and simplified due diligence.
- Identify beneficial ownership and screen politically exposed persons (PEPs).
- Apply sanctions screening and manage false positives and list updates.
- Design transaction monitoring rules, thresholds, and alert scenarios.
- Investigate alerts, document decisions, and file SARs and STRs.
- Recognise money laundering typologies and emerging risks.
- Apply correspondent banking, trade finance, and virtual asset AML controls.
- Apply programme governance, training, independent testing, and audit readiness.
Course Methodology
- Interactive sessions built on AML compliance cases and real typologies.
- Workshops on risk assessment, due diligence files, and screening tuning.
- Group exercises on alert triage, SAR drafting, and typology analysis.
- Hands-on practice with risk matrices, case files, and monitoring scenarios.
- Simulation of a supervisory inspection and a complex investigation.
- Facilitator coaching and peer review on personal compliance frameworks.
Who Should Take This Course
- AML compliance officers and money laundering reporting officers (MLROs).
- Compliance managers and analysts in banks and financial institutions.
- KYC, onboarding, and periodic review specialists.
- Sanctions and transaction monitoring analysts.
- Internal auditors covering AML and financial crime controls.
- Consultants advising on AML programmes and regulatory remediation.
Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Compliance Masterclass Course Outlines
The Global AML/CTF Framework
- • Money laundering stages: placement, layering, and integration.
- • Terrorist financing and proliferation financing methods.
- • FATF recommendations, mutual evaluations, and grey lists.
- • EU AML directives, the AMLD package, and national law.
- • The role of financial intelligence units and supervisors.
- • Penalties, personal liability, and enforcement trends.
- • Case discussion: a bank fined for programme failures.
Risk Assessment and Customer Due Diligence
- • Business-wide and customer risk assessments.
- • Risk factors: customer, product, geography, and channel.
- • Customer due diligence (CDD) and enhanced due diligence (EDD).
- • Simplified due diligence and when it applies.
- • Beneficial ownership, complex structures, and trusts.
- • PEP, adverse media, and sanctions screening at onboarding.
- • Workshop: completing a high-risk customer due diligence file.
Sanctions and Transaction Monitoring
- • Sanctions regimes: OFAC, UN, EU, and UK lists.
- • Name, payment, and trade screening and list management.
- • Fuzzy matching, thresholds, and false positive reduction.
- • Transaction monitoring rule design and scenario coverage.
- • Structuring, smurfing, and unusual activity indicators.
- • Alert triage, escalation, and case prioritisation.
- • Exercise: tuning a monitoring scenario and triaging alerts.
Investigations, Typologies, and Reporting
- • Investigation methodology and evidence handling.
- • Money laundering typologies: trade-based, shell companies, mules.
- • Correspondent banking and payable-through account risks.
- • Virtual assets, crypto typologies, and the travel rule.
- • Suspicious activity reports (SARs) and suspicious transaction reports (STRs).
- • Tip-off rules, consent, and confidentiality duties.
- • Simulation: investigating a complex case and drafting a SAR.
Programme Governance and Inspection Readiness
- • The three lines model and AML governance structure.
- • Policies, procedures, and the compliance monitoring plan.
- • Training, awareness, and competence requirements.
- • Independent testing, internal audit, and remediation plans.
- • Record keeping, data retention, and management information.
- • Preparing for supervisory inspections and responding to findings.
- • Capstone: presenting an AML compliance programme and roadmap.
Conclusion
By successfully completing Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Compliance Masterclass, participants will gain a practical command of the AML/CTF framework, risk assessment, customer due diligence, sanctions screening, transaction monitoring, investigations, and reporting. They will acquire skills in risk rating, alert triage, SAR drafting, typology recognition, and programme governance that strengthen financial crime defences. Gentex Training Center designs the programme to help professionals meet supervisory expectations with confidence.
FAQs
— What is the "Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Compliance Masterclass" course about?
It prepares compliance professionals to build, run, and defend a financial crime control framework. The course spans the global AML/CTF framework, risk assessment and customer due diligence, sanctions and transaction monitoring, investigations, typologies and reporting, and programme governance and inspection readiness.
— What are the key benefits of the "Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Compliance Masterclass" course?
You gain a practical command of AML compliance that connects supervisory expectations with operational controls. The course improves risk assessment and due diligence quality, strengthens screening and monitoring effectiveness, sharpens investigative and reporting judgement, and gives you governance that stands up to inspection.
— What skills will I gain from the "Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Compliance Masterclass" course?
You will develop four core skills: applying the AML/CTF framework with business-wide risk assessment, customer and enhanced due diligence with beneficial ownership and PEP screening, sanctions screening and transaction monitoring with alert triage, and investigation with SAR drafting and typology recognition.
— What tools, methods, or standards are covered in the "Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Compliance Masterclass" course?
The course covers the FATF recommendations and mutual evaluations and grey lists, the EU AML directives and AMLD package, financial intelligence unit and supervisor roles, money laundering stages of placement, layering and integration, terrorist and proliferation financing methods, business-wide and customer risk assessments, risk factors across customer, product, geography and channel, customer due diligence (CDD), enhanced due diligence (EDD) and simplified due diligence, beneficial ownership identification and complex structures and trusts, PEP and adverse media screening, OFAC, UN, EU and UK sanctions regimes, name, payment and trade screening and list management, fuzzy matching and thresholds and false positive reduction, transaction monitoring rule design and scenario coverage, structuring and smurfing and unusual activity indicators, alert triage and escalation and case prioritisation, investigation methodology and evidence handling, typologies for trade-based laundering, shell companies and money mules, correspondent banking and payable-through account risks, virtual asset typologies and the travel rule, suspicious activity reports (SARs) and suspicious transaction reports (STRs), tip-off rules and consent and confidentiality, the three lines model and AML governance, compliance monitoring plans, training and competence requirements, independent testing and internal audit and remediation, and record keeping, data retention and management information.
— How is the "Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Compliance Masterclass" course applied in real-world practice?
Participants apply it to real work such as completing a business-wide risk assessment, preparing a high-risk customer due diligence file, tuning a monitoring scenario and triaging alerts, investigating a complex case and drafting a SAR, and preparing an AML programme for supervisory inspection. The same methods support remediation planning and typology-based risk reviews.
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