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AGRC Certificate in AML
Pick up everything you need to know to join a company’s AML function and start fighting crime with your newfound knowledge and skills.
- 12 CPD Units
- 12.5 Hours
- Live Online
- 29 & 30 April, 6, 7 & 8 May 2025
- 15:00 - 17:30 UK Time
- Live Online
£850.00
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Course Overview
What’s Included
Trainer
Course Overview
Become a financial crime prevention superhero with AGRC’s help!
Pick up everything you need to know to join a company’s AML function and start fighting crime with your newfound knowledge and skills.
The Certificate in AML provides participants with a thorough understanding of what constitutes Money Laundering (ML) and how financial institutions should respond to increasingly complex attempts by criminal individuals and entities to process proceedings from illegal activities in a manner that enables them to enjoy such illegal proceedings.
Course Features
Here are the top seven (7) benefits delivered by the Association of Governance, Risk & Compliance’s Certificate in Anti-Money Laundering (AML):
- Comprehensive knowledge of what constitutes Money Laundering (ML) and the steps financial institutions need to follow to curtail the criminal world’s increasingly complex attempts to legalize the money accrued from its illegal activities.
- Via the use of case studies, a thorough understanding of what has been put in practice across the globe to prevent Money Laundering from a legal, regulatory, political, enforcement and economic perspective.
- The necessary tools, information and skills to transform you into an in-demand professional for financial institutions and other organizations looking to create or strengthen their AML divisions.
- Five (5) instructor-led training sessions, plus access to the 10-to15-hour online interactive AML Certificate training programme.
- Two (2) attempts to pass the final exam consisting of 40 multiple choice questions.
- Free one-year membership to AGRC, where you can exchange knowledge and share experiences with GRC professionals worldwide.
- Use of the AGRC’s professional designation as a Compliance professional.
- Identify ML-related risks and dangers that need to be dealt with through a rigid AML strategy.
- Understand ML risk assessment and management and learn how to design a comprehensive AML risk-based approach.
- Review the relevant processes and procedures that need to be adopted as part of an AML strategy.
- Gain a practical perspective through a review of the relevant legal framework that covers AML.
- Understand the importance of sanctions and how these can be utilised as a tool to combat ML.
AGRC’s 12-hour AML Certificate covers the following specific topics:
- Money laundering methods, techniques, red flags, key risk areas and compliance best practices & checklists.
- KYC and CDD: Beneficial ownership, money laundering risks in gatekeeper roles, politically exposed persons, and much more.
- Economic Sanctions and relevant frameworks.
- Vulnerabilities of Financial Institutions.
- Legal Framework for AML – A practical perspective.
- Case Studies and analysis.
What’s Included
The programme includes:
- 5 hours of instructor-led, live online training split into five (5) sessions
- 10-15 hours of self-paced, online, and interactive learning, including analysis of practical case studies
- The AGRC study handbook
- Practice questions and a final mock exam
- Free AGRC membership for one (1) year
- Online exam with two attempts to pass
- AGRC certificate and use of the PAGRC designation upon successful completion
Exam details:
- Duration: 60 minutes
- Number of questions: 40
- Type of question: Multiple choice
- Pass mark: 70/100
- Results appear directly once you submit all of your answers.
- Certificate is issued in PDF and sent by email within 48 hours.
- A printed copy of the certificate can be requested for an additional charge of £50.
- Please keep in mind that if you do not complete your training programme and book your exam within the 3-month period, you will have to pay £150 to take the exam and for any additional attempt thereafter.
Trainer
AGRC Subject Matter Expert | Steve Fairclough
Steve began his financial services career in 1993 and has over 20 years practical training experience across a range of sectors and topics. He is a former Head of Education for HSBC covering the UK and Europe, responsible for regulatory and financial crime related compliance learning. His time at HSBC was during intense scrutiny from regulators and government functions during the bank’s Deferred Prosecution Agreement. Other roles include leading the Monitoring and Testing programme for a UK Wealth Manager, and Senior Vice President responsible for Global Risk & Compliance training at a US-based bank. He also worked in the Insurance Firms division at the Financial Conduct Authority (in the FSA days) where he was the divisional expert for the rules and outcomes required under the Training & Competence handbook.
The HSBC role, along with five years at Barclays in their Private Clients and Wealth functions, has seen Steve work with retail, commercial, wholesale and private banking channels. Since leaving HSBC, Stephen has worked with the compliance, HR and operational teams of firms to enhance their regulatory understanding, as well as delivering content across private equity firms, investment houses, banks and wealth managers. He regularly delivers core programmes for TISA and the Investment Association.
Steve is a former member of the Investment Management Association Training & Education Committee and won the Thomson Reuters award for “Most Effective Compliance Training at a Regulated Firm” in 2010.
What People Say About LGCA
AGRC’s certificate in compliance helped me advance my career in the field of compliance by teaching me the ins and outs of the sector, the challenges I may face in the future, and the skills I need to overcome them and
help my company remain compliant in a
heavily regulated world.
help my company remain compliant in a
heavily regulated world.
Compliance and its role in the financial world have never been easier to understand than with AGRC’s certificate programmes. The course was clear, comprehensive and practical, and provided me with the tools and skills I needed to further my career in compliance. I highly recommend these certifications and courses!
This certification is precisely what I was looking for. Since I work remotely, the best option for me was a self-paced, e-learning course that I could do and complete at my own convenience and at random hours of the day. AGRC’s training offered exactly that, plus a lot more. I delved deep into the world of compliance, gaining a thorough understanding of the industry and what it takes to succeed as a compliance officer.
Thank you AGRC!
Thank you AGRC!
AGRC makes compliance super interesting and simple to grasp. Their self-paced, online learning offerings are captivating and have prepared me to take the plunge and become a full-time compliance professional.
I wasn’t sure whether transitioning into the world of compliance was the right move for me. After taking this course, I’m convinced I made the right decision. The course was super interesting, offering me a solid foundation of GRC issues, and it got me super hyped to build a career in compliance.
Compliance has been trending lately and AGRC’s certificate caters to this growing need for compliance officers or at least experts in the sector. The course materials were insightful, comprehensive and clear, relying heavily on
case studies that show theory working in practice and helping us understand the true value of compliance and its concepts in action in
the business world. Don’t miss out on what’s a wonderful course!
case studies that show theory working in practice and helping us understand the true value of compliance and its concepts in action in
the business world. Don’t miss out on what’s a wonderful course!
This course and certification are exceptional when it comes to introducing you to compliance and its importance in today’s financial world. Self-paced, online and very engaging material. Top notch.
AGRC's self-paced, online course on compliance is ideal for professionals who want to pick up new information on the AGRC world and contribute to building a solid corporate culture for their workplace. In this day and age, being ethical is the name of the game and this certificate allows you to grow in that direction.
Insightful, practical and complete courses on compliance, AML and KYC/CDD. Five out of five stars. I strongly recommend the AGRC courses to anyone who wants to join the financial services sector or he is already following a relevant career path. Practical and easy to understand,
including video material and study handouts. Online exams are
also a great addition to the whole package.
including video material and study handouts. Online exams are
also a great addition to the whole package.
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