
This video introduces the course structure and how you can maximize your learning. You’ll understand how the modules are designed, what each section covers, and where to find supporting diagrams and downloadable tools.
By the end, you’ll know how to follow each lesson, complete the quizzes, and apply templates effectively.
Learn the classic 3-stage model: Placement, Layering, and Integration. We explain each phase with real-world laundering examples and visual diagrams.
You’ll be able to distinguish money laundering flows and identify common strategies used by criminals.
Explore classic topologies for laundering funds, including structuring (smurfing), trade-based laundering, shell companies, nominee arrangements, and real estate laundering, noting banking due diligence and the shift to digital laundering.
Explore how terrorist financing differs from money laundering, identify small-transaction patterns, and map funding networks across regions, hawala, and cryptocurrency, to strengthen AML and compliance.
Identify PEPs and red flags during onboarding to ensure secure, compliant client intake. Learn enhanced due diligence, continuous monitoring, and escalation steps for potential risks and sanctions checks.
Build an effective anti-money laundering (AML) program from policy to execution, anchored in independent testing, monitoring and reporting, training, a dedicated compliance officer, and robust policies guided by risk assessment.
Learn to monitor for sanctions and escalations by applying real time, batch, and manual anti-money laundering monitoring, sanction screening, and a structured escalation with audit trails and data quality controls.
Examine how crypto crime intersects with anti-money laundering, highlighting Binance and Busato's cases, KYC for wallets, travel rule, and STRs to strengthen compliance and transparency.
Explore downloadable AML templates and practical tools for KYC, risk assessment, and compliance, including policy, reporting, onboarding, risk matrix, and internal audit guides, customizable across jurisdictions.
This practical AML Quick Start course helps you understand the fundamentals of AML, KYC, customer risk scoring, and Suspicious Transaction Reports (STRs) in under 60 minutes.
Whether you're starting a career in compliance, working in fintech, or preparing for an interview, this course gives you the essential knowledge and ready-to-use templates to understand how anti-financial crime controls work in real organizations.
You will learn how to:
Understand core AML concepts, FATF standards, and common red flags
Conduct a simple customer risk assessment
Use practical templates, including a KYC Checklist, Risk Scoring Matrix, and STR Template
Recognize when suspicious activity should be escalated
Understand how AML controls fit into everyday compliance operations
Included resources:
KYC Checklist (PDF and Excel)
Risk Scoring Matrix (Excel)
STR Template (DOCX)
Mini Quiz
This course is ideal for:
Compliance beginners
Junior AML analysts
Fintech and banking professionals
Operations and QA teams
Anyone who needs a fast and practical AML refresher
Important note:
This is a concise and structured introduction with practical examples and templates. It is not a full case-study workshop or software simulation.
By the end of this course, you will have the confidence, vocabulary, and practical tools to start contributing to AML and compliance workflows immediately.