Regulatory Compliance
International Compliance Association (ICA)
This five-day programme prepares compliance professionals for the ICA qualification pathway and the practical demands it reflects, covering the compliance and risk framework, AML and financial crime, due diligence and monitoring, governance and conduct, and programme management. Participants develop skills in risk assessment, monitoring, investigation, and exam-ready revision.
Introduction
International Compliance Association (ICA) Training Course prepares compliance professionals for the ICA qualification pathway and the practical demands it reflects. Participants work through the compliance and risk landscape, anti-money laundering and financial crime prevention, governance and conduct, customer due diligence and monitoring, sanctions, data protection, and compliance programme management as one connected framework aligned to ICA study and assessment. The programme links the ICA syllabus with the duties professionals perform at work. As a result, learners gain a structured, exam-ready command of compliance. Furthermore, the course strengthens risk judgement, programme design, and professional standards.
International Compliance Association (ICA) Course Objectives
- Explain the compliance profession, its standards, and ethical duties.
- Apply the international and ICA-aligned compliance and risk framework.
- Apply anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing requirements.
- Apply financial crime prevention across fraud, bribery, and sanctions.
- Apply customer due diligence, enhanced due diligence, and monitoring.
- Apply governance, conduct, and accountability principles.
- Apply data protection and privacy requirements to compliance work.
- Design compliance policies, controls, and monitoring programmes.
- Conduct compliance investigations and manage breach reporting.
- Apply regulatory reporting, assurance, and professional development.
Course Methodology
- Interactive sessions built on ICA-aligned compliance and financial crime cases.
- Workshops on risk assessment, due diligence, and control design.
- Group exercises on monitoring scenarios, investigations, and reporting.
- Hands-on practice with risk registers, monitoring plans, and exam-style questions.
- Simulation of a compliance review meeting and a regulatory inspection.
- Facilitator coaching and structured exam preparation and revision guidance.
Who Should Take This Course
- Compliance officers, analysts, and managers pursuing ICA qualifications.
- AML and financial crime prevention professionals.
- Risk, governance, and internal control professionals.
- Internal auditors covering compliance and financial crime controls.
- Legal advisors and regulatory affairs staff.
- Entry-level professionals building a compliance career.
International Compliance Association (ICA) Course Outlines
The Compliance Profession and Risk Framework
- • The compliance role, professional standards, and ethics.
- • Regulatory environment: financial, conduct, and data rules.
- • The three lines model and assurance boundaries.
- • Compliance risk assessment foundations.
- • Building an effective compliance culture.
- • Professional conduct and accountability expectations.
- • Case discussion: a compliance failure and its lessons.
Anti-Money Laundering and Financial Crime
- • Money laundering stages: placement, layering, and integration.
- • Terrorist financing and proliferation financing methods.
- • FATF recommendations and national AML regimes.
- • Bribery, corruption, and the FCPA and UK Bribery Act.
- • Fraud typologies and detection techniques.
- • Sanctions and export control screening basics.
- • Workshop: reviewing an AML risk assessment.
Due Diligence, Monitoring, and Reporting
- • Customer due diligence and enhanced due diligence.
- • Beneficial ownership and politically exposed person screening.
- • Transaction monitoring rule design and alert triage.
- • Red flag indicators and unusual activity recognition.
- • Suspicious activity reports (SARs) and tip-off rules.
- • Record keeping and evidence standards.
- • Exercise: triaging alerts and drafting a suspicious activity report.
Governance, Conduct, and Data Protection
- • Governance structures and board reporting lines.
- • Conduct risk and treating customers fairly principles.
- • Conflicts of interest and managing personal accountability.
- • GDPR and data protection principles for compliance work.
- • Cross-border data transfers and vendor obligations.
- • Whistleblowing channels and speak-up mechanisms.
- • Simulation: managing a conduct risk scenario.
Programme Management, Assurance, and Exam Preparation
- • Designing compliance policies, procedures, and controls.
- • Compliance monitoring, testing, and assurance programmes.
- • Compliance reporting and management information.
- • Investigation basics and breach handling.
- • Preparing for ICA assessment: structure and revision strategy.
- • Continuing professional development and career pathways.
- • Capstone: presenting a compliance programme and revision plan.
Conclusion
By successfully completing International Compliance Association (ICA), participants will gain a practical command of the compliance and risk framework, anti-money laundering and financial crime prevention, due diligence and monitoring, governance and conduct, data protection, and compliance programme management. They will acquire skills in risk assessment, due diligence and monitoring, investigation and reporting, and professional standards that support ICA study and daily practice. Gentex Training Center designs the programme to help professionals pursue compliance qualifications with confidence.
FAQs
— What is the "International Compliance Association (ICA)" course about?
It prepares compliance professionals for the ICA qualification pathway and the practical demands it reflects. The course spans the compliance profession and risk framework, anti-money laundering and financial crime, due diligence, monitoring and reporting, governance, conduct and data protection, and programme management, assurance and exam preparation.
— What are the key benefits of the "International Compliance Association (ICA)" course?
You gain a structured, exam-ready command of compliance aligned to the ICA syllabus. The course improves risk assessment and due diligence quality, strengthens financial crime knowledge, sharpens monitoring and reporting technique, and gives you structured revision strategy and exam-style practice that support assessment success.
— What skills will I gain from the "International Compliance Association (ICA)" course?
You will develop four core skills: compliance risk assessment and framework application, anti-money laundering and financial crime prevention, due diligence and transaction monitoring with investigation and reporting, and governance and conduct compliance with programme management and professional standards.
— What tools, methods, or standards are covered in the "International Compliance Association (ICA)" course?
The course covers the compliance role and professional standards and ethics, the regulatory environment across financial, conduct and data rules, the three lines model and assurance boundaries, compliance risk assessment foundations, compliance culture, the money laundering stages of placement, layering and integration, terrorist and proliferation financing methods, FATF recommendations and national AML regimes, bribery and corruption with the FCPA and UK Bribery Act, fraud typologies and detection techniques, sanctions and export control screening, customer due diligence and enhanced due diligence, beneficial ownership and politically exposed person screening, transaction monitoring rule design and alert triage, red flag indicators and unusual activity recognition, suspicious activity reports (SARs) and tip-off rules, record keeping and evidence standards, governance structures and board reporting lines, conduct risk and treating customers fairly principles, conflicts of interest and personal accountability, GDPR and data protection principles, cross-border data transfers and vendor obligations, whistleblowing channels and speak-up mechanisms, compliance policies, procedures and control design, compliance monitoring, testing and assurance programmes, compliance reporting and management information, investigation basics and breach handling, and continuing professional development pathways.
— How is the "International Compliance Association (ICA)" course applied in real-world practice?
Participants apply it to real work such as reviewing an AML risk assessment, applying enhanced due diligence to a high-risk customer, triaging transaction monitoring alerts, drafting a suspicious activity report, managing a conduct risk scenario, and preparing a compliance programme for inspection. The same methods support structured ICA revision and assessment preparation.
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Introduction
International Compliance Association (ICA) Training Course prepares compliance professionals for the ICA qualification pathway and the practical demands it reflects. Participants work through the compliance and risk landscape, anti-money laundering and financial crime prevention, governance and conduct, customer due diligence and monitoring, sanctions, data protection, and compliance programme management as one connected framework aligned to ICA study and assessment. The programme links the ICA syllabus with the duties professionals perform at work. As a result, learners gain a structured, exam-ready command of compliance. Furthermore, the course strengthens risk judgement, programme design, and professional standards.
International Compliance Association (ICA) Course Objectives
- Explain the compliance profession, its standards, and ethical duties.
- Apply the international and ICA-aligned compliance and risk framework.
- Apply anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing requirements.
- Apply financial crime prevention across fraud, bribery, and sanctions.
- Apply customer due diligence, enhanced due diligence, and monitoring.
- Apply governance, conduct, and accountability principles.
- Apply data protection and privacy requirements to compliance work.
- Design compliance policies, controls, and monitoring programmes.
- Conduct compliance investigations and manage breach reporting.
- Apply regulatory reporting, assurance, and professional development.
Course Methodology
- Interactive sessions built on ICA-aligned compliance and financial crime cases.
- Workshops on risk assessment, due diligence, and control design.
- Group exercises on monitoring scenarios, investigations, and reporting.
- Hands-on practice with risk registers, monitoring plans, and exam-style questions.
- Simulation of a compliance review meeting and a regulatory inspection.
- Facilitator coaching and structured exam preparation and revision guidance.
Who Should Take This Course
- Compliance officers, analysts, and managers pursuing ICA qualifications.
- AML and financial crime prevention professionals.
- Risk, governance, and internal control professionals.
- Internal auditors covering compliance and financial crime controls.
- Legal advisors and regulatory affairs staff.
- Entry-level professionals building a compliance career.
International Compliance Association (ICA) Course Outlines
The Compliance Profession and Risk Framework
- • The compliance role, professional standards, and ethics.
- • Regulatory environment: financial, conduct, and data rules.
- • The three lines model and assurance boundaries.
- • Compliance risk assessment foundations.
- • Building an effective compliance culture.
- • Professional conduct and accountability expectations.
- • Case discussion: a compliance failure and its lessons.
Anti-Money Laundering and Financial Crime
- • Money laundering stages: placement, layering, and integration.
- • Terrorist financing and proliferation financing methods.
- • FATF recommendations and national AML regimes.
- • Bribery, corruption, and the FCPA and UK Bribery Act.
- • Fraud typologies and detection techniques.
- • Sanctions and export control screening basics.
- • Workshop: reviewing an AML risk assessment.
Due Diligence, Monitoring, and Reporting
- • Customer due diligence and enhanced due diligence.
- • Beneficial ownership and politically exposed person screening.
- • Transaction monitoring rule design and alert triage.
- • Red flag indicators and unusual activity recognition.
- • Suspicious activity reports (SARs) and tip-off rules.
- • Record keeping and evidence standards.
- • Exercise: triaging alerts and drafting a suspicious activity report.
Governance, Conduct, and Data Protection
- • Governance structures and board reporting lines.
- • Conduct risk and treating customers fairly principles.
- • Conflicts of interest and managing personal accountability.
- • GDPR and data protection principles for compliance work.
- • Cross-border data transfers and vendor obligations.
- • Whistleblowing channels and speak-up mechanisms.
- • Simulation: managing a conduct risk scenario.
Programme Management, Assurance, and Exam Preparation
- • Designing compliance policies, procedures, and controls.
- • Compliance monitoring, testing, and assurance programmes.
- • Compliance reporting and management information.
- • Investigation basics and breach handling.
- • Preparing for ICA assessment: structure and revision strategy.
- • Continuing professional development and career pathways.
- • Capstone: presenting a compliance programme and revision plan.
Conclusion
By successfully completing International Compliance Association (ICA), participants will gain a practical command of the compliance and risk framework, anti-money laundering and financial crime prevention, due diligence and monitoring, governance and conduct, data protection, and compliance programme management. They will acquire skills in risk assessment, due diligence and monitoring, investigation and reporting, and professional standards that support ICA study and daily practice. Gentex Training Center designs the programme to help professionals pursue compliance qualifications with confidence.
FAQs
— What is the "International Compliance Association (ICA)" course about?
It prepares compliance professionals for the ICA qualification pathway and the practical demands it reflects. The course spans the compliance profession and risk framework, anti-money laundering and financial crime, due diligence, monitoring and reporting, governance, conduct and data protection, and programme management, assurance and exam preparation.
— What are the key benefits of the "International Compliance Association (ICA)" course?
You gain a structured, exam-ready command of compliance aligned to the ICA syllabus. The course improves risk assessment and due diligence quality, strengthens financial crime knowledge, sharpens monitoring and reporting technique, and gives you structured revision strategy and exam-style practice that support assessment success.
— What skills will I gain from the "International Compliance Association (ICA)" course?
You will develop four core skills: compliance risk assessment and framework application, anti-money laundering and financial crime prevention, due diligence and transaction monitoring with investigation and reporting, and governance and conduct compliance with programme management and professional standards.
— What tools, methods, or standards are covered in the "International Compliance Association (ICA)" course?
The course covers the compliance role and professional standards and ethics, the regulatory environment across financial, conduct and data rules, the three lines model and assurance boundaries, compliance risk assessment foundations, compliance culture, the money laundering stages of placement, layering and integration, terrorist and proliferation financing methods, FATF recommendations and national AML regimes, bribery and corruption with the FCPA and UK Bribery Act, fraud typologies and detection techniques, sanctions and export control screening, customer due diligence and enhanced due diligence, beneficial ownership and politically exposed person screening, transaction monitoring rule design and alert triage, red flag indicators and unusual activity recognition, suspicious activity reports (SARs) and tip-off rules, record keeping and evidence standards, governance structures and board reporting lines, conduct risk and treating customers fairly principles, conflicts of interest and personal accountability, GDPR and data protection principles, cross-border data transfers and vendor obligations, whistleblowing channels and speak-up mechanisms, compliance policies, procedures and control design, compliance monitoring, testing and assurance programmes, compliance reporting and management information, investigation basics and breach handling, and continuing professional development pathways.
— How is the "International Compliance Association (ICA)" course applied in real-world practice?
Participants apply it to real work such as reviewing an AML risk assessment, applying enhanced due diligence to a high-risk customer, triaging transaction monitoring alerts, drafting a suspicious activity report, managing a conduct risk scenario, and preparing a compliance programme for inspection. The same methods support structured ICA revision and assessment preparation.
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