Certificate in Anti-Money Laundering (AML) for Compliance Officers

Anti money laundering controls fail in two directions and both are expensive. A programme tuned too wide produces an alert volume nobody can clear, so the typologies that matter sit in a backlog behind noise. A programme tuned too narrow misses them outright. This week is about the judgement in between, and about the position the money laundering reporting officer personally occupies: named to the regulator, accountable for the decision, and usually the only person who understands why it was made. Delegates work on their own institution's risk assessment, alerts and reporting throughout, so what they leave with is theirs rather than a case study.

It runs 7 times over the published calendar, in 6 cities and live online. Every date is the same programme with the same content and the same certificate.

• Build a customer and product risk assessment that drives different treatment rather than recording the same rating for everybody.
• Design monitoring that detects a typology instead of generating volume, and justify where the thresholds sit.
• Take an alert to a documented conclusion that holds up when somebody reads it two years later.
• Decide what to escalate and what to report, and keep the two separate.
• Write the programme down so it does not depend on the person who designed it.

Money laundering reporting officers and their deputies, compliance officers in banks, insurers, microfinance and virtual asset businesses, and the internal auditors who have to form a view on whether a financial crime programme works.

Short input, then work. Across 5 days of roughly 6 teaching hours each, the balance sits deliberately with the second: a programme where the trainer talks for six hours produces notes rather than capability.

• Your own material

  Exercises run on situations delegates bring, not on a case study written for a different organisation in a different decade.

• A capped cohort

  Small enough that everybody is asked something. Executive programmes are capped tighter still.

• Practice under scrutiny

  The difficult conversation, the challenged assumption, the decision defended out loud. Judgement is not built by watching.

• Something to take back

  Each day ends with a thing you can use on Monday rather than a slide deck you will not reopen.

• A risk assessment for the delegate's own institution, with the reasoning behind each rating recorded.
• A written standard for investigating and closing an alert, in a form a reviewer can follow.
• A capability plan that removes the single point of dependency on one officer.

A GATI certificate recording what you attended, issued after the programme has run and attendance has been taken. Attending at least 80 per cent of the days earns a certificate of completion; attending less earns a certificate of attendance stating exactly what was attended.

Every certificate carries a code that anybody can check against GATI's own record, which is what makes it worth holding. It records participation. This site will not imply one it does not have.