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Certified Anti Money Laundering Specialist – CAMS (Exam Preparatory Course)
A five-day CAMS exam preparatory programme covering AML foundations, risk assessment, compliance programme design, customer due diligence, monitoring, investigation, reporting, and exam technique.
Introduction
The Certified Anti Money Laundering Specialist – CAMS (Exam Preparatory Course) Training Course prepares compliance professionals to sit the CAMS examination with confidence and to practise anti-money laundering effectively. CAMS is a globally recognised credential built on the ACAMS exam outline, covering AML foundations, risk assessment, and the compliance programme. This course works through every exam domain with structured study, worked questions, and applied case examples. Furthermore, it connects each topic to real investigation, monitoring, and reporting work. As a result, participants gain both exam readiness and the practical judgement employers expect from a certified specialist.
Certified Anti Money Laundering Specialist – CAMS (Exam Preparatory Course) Course Objectives
- Explain money laundering stages, typologies, and predicate offences.
- Apply the ACAMS exam outline across all four examination domains.
- Interpret FATF Recommendations and the risk-based approach.
- Design an AML compliance programme with policies, controls, and governance.
- Conduct customer due diligence, enhanced due diligence, and beneficial ownership checks.
- Build transaction monitoring rules, thresholds, and alert triage processes.
- Investigate suspicious activity and prepare SAR and STR reports.
- Apply sanctions screening, PEP checks, and adverse media review.
- Identify trade-based money laundering and correspondent banking risks.
- Complete practice questions and manage CAMS exam timing and technique.
Course Methodology
- Interactive lectures following the ACAMS exam outline domain by domain.
- Case studies on investigation, monitoring, and reporting decisions.
- Practice question banks with worked answers and reasoning.
- Timed mock examinations with performance review.
- Structured peer study and facilitator feedback on weak areas.
Who Should Take This Course
- AML and financial crime compliance officers.
- Compliance analysts and investigators in banking.
- Internal auditors covering AML controls.
- Risk managers in financial institutions.
- Consultants and advisors in financial crime prevention.
- Professionals preparing for the CAMS examination.
Certified Anti Money Laundering Specialist – CAMS (Exam Preparatory Course) Course Outlines
AML Foundations and the Risk-Based Approach
- • The ACAMS exam outline, format, and scoring expectations.
- • Money laundering stages: placement, layering, and integration.
- • Predicate offences and terrorist financing distinctions.
- • FATF Recommendations and the risk-based approach.
- • The three lines model in financial crime compliance.
- • Regulatory expectations, penalties, and enforcement trends.
- • Case study: a major enforcement action and its lessons.
Compliance Programme Design and Governance
- • AML programme components: policy, procedures, and controls.
- • Risk assessment: jurisdictional, customer, product, and channel risk.
- • Governance structures, AML officer duties, and board reporting.
- • Employee training programmes and awareness metrics.
- • Independent testing, audit, and programme review.
- • Recordkeeping, data retention, and documentation standards.
- • Workshop: drafting an institutional AML risk assessment.
Customer Due Diligence and Monitoring
- • Customer identification, verification, and onboarding controls.
- • Customer due diligence and enhanced due diligence triggers.
- • Beneficial ownership identification and control structures.
- • PEP identification, adverse media, and sanctions screening.
- • Transaction monitoring rules, thresholds, and tuning.
- • Alert triage, escalation, and case management.
- • Workshop: building monitoring scenarios for a client segment.
Investigation, Reporting, and Typologies
- • Conducting an investigation and gathering evidence.
- • Suspicious activity reports (SAR) and suspicious transaction reports (STR).
- • Internal escalation, tipping-off rules, and confidentiality.
- • Trade-based money laundering and invoice manipulation.
- • Correspondent banking, shell companies, and nominee structures.
- • Cash-intensive businesses and money service businesses.
- • Workshop: writing a complete SAR narrative.
Exam Readiness and Applied Practice
- • Review of all four ACAMS examination domains.
- • High-weight topics and commonly tested concepts.
- • Practice question sets with detailed answer explanations.
- • Exam strategy, timing, and question interpretation technique.
- • Mock examination and performance diagnosis.
- • Personal study plan and revision roadmap.
- • Course review, assessment, and action planning.
Conclusion
By successfully completing Certified Anti Money Laundering Specialist – CAMS (Exam Preparatory Course), participants will gain a thorough understanding of AML frameworks, risk assessment, customer due diligence, monitoring, investigation, and reporting. They will also acquire practical skills in compliance programme design, suspicious activity analysis, and sanctions screening. In addition, the course prepares them to approach the CAMS examination with structured confidence. Gentex Training Center delivers this programme with a strong focus on real compliance practice and measurable exam readiness.
FAQs for Certified Anti Money Laundering Specialist – CAMS (Exam Preparatory Course) course
— What is the "Certified Anti Money Laundering Specialist – CAMS (Exam Preparatory Course)" course about?
It is a five-day programme that prepares professionals for the CAMS examination. It works through the four ACAMS exam domains, covering AML foundations, risk assessment, compliance programme design, customer due diligence, monitoring, investigation, reporting, and exam technique.
— What are the key benefits of the "Certified Anti Money Laundering Specialist – CAMS (Exam Preparatory Course)" course?
Participants gain structured exam readiness instead of scattered reading, which saves preparation time. The course also strengthens day-to-day AML practice, improves risk assessment and monitoring quality, raises the standard of investigation narratives, reduces regulatory findings, and gives compliance teams a shared framework for decisions.
— What skills will I gain from the "Certified Anti Money Laundering Specialist – CAMS (Exam Preparatory Course)" course?
Participants gain AML programme and risk assessment design, customer due diligence and beneficial ownership analysis, transaction monitoring and alert triage, and suspicious activity investigation, reporting and sanctions screening. These four skills cover both the exam domains and daily financial crime compliance work.
— What tools, methods, or standards are covered in the "Certified Anti Money Laundering Specialist – CAMS (Exam Preparatory Course)" course?
The course covers the ACAMS exam outline and its four domains, FATF Recommendations, the risk-based approach, the three lines model, institutional risk assessment methodology, customer due diligence and enhanced due diligence, beneficial ownership rules, PEP and adverse media screening, sanctions screening, transaction monitoring rule sets and thresholds, alert triage and case management, SAR and STR reporting standards, and trade-based money laundering indicators.
— How is the "Certified Anti Money Laundering Specialist – CAMS (Exam Preparatory Course)" course applied in real-world practice?
Participants apply the material in their own compliance units. They prepare risk assessments, refine onboarding and due diligence steps, tune monitoring scenarios, triage alerts, write investigation narratives, and file reports. Many leave with a mock exam result and a revision plan for the certification.
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Introduction
The Certified Anti Money Laundering Specialist – CAMS (Exam Preparatory Course) Training Course prepares compliance professionals to sit the CAMS examination with confidence and to practise anti-money laundering effectively. CAMS is a globally recognised credential built on the ACAMS exam outline, covering AML foundations, risk assessment, and the compliance programme. This course works through every exam domain with structured study, worked questions, and applied case examples. Furthermore, it connects each topic to real investigation, monitoring, and reporting work. As a result, participants gain both exam readiness and the practical judgement employers expect from a certified specialist.
Certified Anti Money Laundering Specialist – CAMS (Exam Preparatory Course) Course Objectives
- Explain money laundering stages, typologies, and predicate offences.
- Apply the ACAMS exam outline across all four examination domains.
- Interpret FATF Recommendations and the risk-based approach.
- Design an AML compliance programme with policies, controls, and governance.
- Conduct customer due diligence, enhanced due diligence, and beneficial ownership checks.
- Build transaction monitoring rules, thresholds, and alert triage processes.
- Investigate suspicious activity and prepare SAR and STR reports.
- Apply sanctions screening, PEP checks, and adverse media review.
- Identify trade-based money laundering and correspondent banking risks.
- Complete practice questions and manage CAMS exam timing and technique.
Course Methodology
- Interactive lectures following the ACAMS exam outline domain by domain.
- Case studies on investigation, monitoring, and reporting decisions.
- Practice question banks with worked answers and reasoning.
- Timed mock examinations with performance review.
- Structured peer study and facilitator feedback on weak areas.
Who Should Take This Course
- AML and financial crime compliance officers.
- Compliance analysts and investigators in banking.
- Internal auditors covering AML controls.
- Risk managers in financial institutions.
- Consultants and advisors in financial crime prevention.
- Professionals preparing for the CAMS examination.
Certified Anti Money Laundering Specialist – CAMS (Exam Preparatory Course) Course Outlines
AML Foundations and the Risk-Based Approach
- • The ACAMS exam outline, format, and scoring expectations.
- • Money laundering stages: placement, layering, and integration.
- • Predicate offences and terrorist financing distinctions.
- • FATF Recommendations and the risk-based approach.
- • The three lines model in financial crime compliance.
- • Regulatory expectations, penalties, and enforcement trends.
- • Case study: a major enforcement action and its lessons.
Compliance Programme Design and Governance
- • AML programme components: policy, procedures, and controls.
- • Risk assessment: jurisdictional, customer, product, and channel risk.
- • Governance structures, AML officer duties, and board reporting.
- • Employee training programmes and awareness metrics.
- • Independent testing, audit, and programme review.
- • Recordkeeping, data retention, and documentation standards.
- • Workshop: drafting an institutional AML risk assessment.
Customer Due Diligence and Monitoring
- • Customer identification, verification, and onboarding controls.
- • Customer due diligence and enhanced due diligence triggers.
- • Beneficial ownership identification and control structures.
- • PEP identification, adverse media, and sanctions screening.
- • Transaction monitoring rules, thresholds, and tuning.
- • Alert triage, escalation, and case management.
- • Workshop: building monitoring scenarios for a client segment.
Investigation, Reporting, and Typologies
- • Conducting an investigation and gathering evidence.
- • Suspicious activity reports (SAR) and suspicious transaction reports (STR).
- • Internal escalation, tipping-off rules, and confidentiality.
- • Trade-based money laundering and invoice manipulation.
- • Correspondent banking, shell companies, and nominee structures.
- • Cash-intensive businesses and money service businesses.
- • Workshop: writing a complete SAR narrative.
Exam Readiness and Applied Practice
- • Review of all four ACAMS examination domains.
- • High-weight topics and commonly tested concepts.
- • Practice question sets with detailed answer explanations.
- • Exam strategy, timing, and question interpretation technique.
- • Mock examination and performance diagnosis.
- • Personal study plan and revision roadmap.
- • Course review, assessment, and action planning.
Conclusion
By successfully completing Certified Anti Money Laundering Specialist – CAMS (Exam Preparatory Course), participants will gain a thorough understanding of AML frameworks, risk assessment, customer due diligence, monitoring, investigation, and reporting. They will also acquire practical skills in compliance programme design, suspicious activity analysis, and sanctions screening. In addition, the course prepares them to approach the CAMS examination with structured confidence. Gentex Training Center delivers this programme with a strong focus on real compliance practice and measurable exam readiness.
FAQs for Certified Anti Money Laundering Specialist – CAMS (Exam Preparatory Course) course
— What is the "Certified Anti Money Laundering Specialist – CAMS (Exam Preparatory Course)" course about?
It is a five-day programme that prepares professionals for the CAMS examination. It works through the four ACAMS exam domains, covering AML foundations, risk assessment, compliance programme design, customer due diligence, monitoring, investigation, reporting, and exam technique.
— What are the key benefits of the "Certified Anti Money Laundering Specialist – CAMS (Exam Preparatory Course)" course?
Participants gain structured exam readiness instead of scattered reading, which saves preparation time. The course also strengthens day-to-day AML practice, improves risk assessment and monitoring quality, raises the standard of investigation narratives, reduces regulatory findings, and gives compliance teams a shared framework for decisions.
— What skills will I gain from the "Certified Anti Money Laundering Specialist – CAMS (Exam Preparatory Course)" course?
Participants gain AML programme and risk assessment design, customer due diligence and beneficial ownership analysis, transaction monitoring and alert triage, and suspicious activity investigation, reporting and sanctions screening. These four skills cover both the exam domains and daily financial crime compliance work.
— What tools, methods, or standards are covered in the "Certified Anti Money Laundering Specialist – CAMS (Exam Preparatory Course)" course?
The course covers the ACAMS exam outline and its four domains, FATF Recommendations, the risk-based approach, the three lines model, institutional risk assessment methodology, customer due diligence and enhanced due diligence, beneficial ownership rules, PEP and adverse media screening, sanctions screening, transaction monitoring rule sets and thresholds, alert triage and case management, SAR and STR reporting standards, and trade-based money laundering indicators.
— How is the "Certified Anti Money Laundering Specialist – CAMS (Exam Preparatory Course)" course applied in real-world practice?
Participants apply the material in their own compliance units. They prepare risk assessments, refine onboarding and due diligence steps, tune monitoring scenarios, triage alerts, write investigation narratives, and file reports. Many leave with a mock exam result and a revision plan for the certification.
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