Combating Financial Crime
A single overview of the financial crime landscape, covering money laundering, fraud, bribery and sanctions, and every employee's role in preventing it.
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Request a demoWhat is financial crime training, and why does it matter?
Financial crime training gives staff a shared understanding of the main threats (money laundering, fraud, bribery and sanctions evasion), how they connect, and each person’s role in preventing them. These crimes rarely respect neat boundaries and often overlap in the same scheme, so understanding the connections is the first step to spotting them.
Who needs combating financial crime training?
This course suits all employees as a firm-wide foundation, ahead of more detailed, role-specific training. Criminals look for the gaps, and a single overlooked red flag can let a scheme through, so every employee is part of the firm’s defence whether or not financial crime appears in their job title.
What does combating financial crime training cover?
The course covers the UK financial crime framework, including the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, the Money Laundering Regulations 2017 and the Bribery Act 2010. Learners recognise red flags across money laundering, fraud, bribery and sanctions, plus terrorist financing, and learn how to report and escalate concerns without tipping off the person involved.
What does the FCA expect on financial crime?
The FCA expects firms to maintain effective systems and controls to counter the risk of being used to further financial crime, as set out in its SYSC sourcebook and Financial Crime Guide. Firm-wide awareness of red flags and reporting routes underpins those controls, supporting the firm’s wider obligations under the Money Laundering Regulations 2017.
What your team will learn
- Identify the main types of financial crime and how they connect
- Recognise red flags across money laundering, fraud, bribery and sanctions
- Explain the firm's obligations and your personal responsibilities
- Identify how and when to report a concern
What's included
- ~25 min of focused, scenario-based learning
- CPD accredited (CII)
- Built-in quiz with a configurable pass mark
- Reviewed and kept current with UK regulation
- Time-stamped completion records for your audit trail
How it works
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Your team completes it
Learners work through the course at their own pace on any device, finishing with a short assessment that demonstrates understanding.
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Evidence it to the regulator
Every completion is time-stamped and retained, so you can prove the right people did the right training at any moment.
Frequently asked questions
- What is financial crime training?
- Financial crime training gives staff a shared understanding of the main threats (money laundering, fraud, bribery and sanctions evasion), how they connect, and each person's role in preventing them. It builds firm-wide awareness of red flags and reporting routes, usually as a foundation ahead of more detailed, role-specific training.
- Who needs financial crime training in a UK firm?
- Every employee benefits from a financial crime foundation, because criminals exploit gaps wherever they find them and a single overlooked red flag can let a scheme through. The FCA expects firms to maintain effective systems and controls, and firm-wide awareness underpins those controls regardless of job title.
- What does combating financial crime training cover?
- It covers the UK financial crime framework, including the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, the Money Laundering Regulations 2017 and the Bribery Act 2010. Learners explore red flags across money laundering, fraud, bribery and sanctions, terrorist financing, and how to report and escalate concerns without tipping off the person involved.
- How does this course relate to AML and sanctions training?
- It is a firm-wide foundation that introduces the whole financial crime landscape and how the threats connect. More detailed courses such as anti-money laundering, sanctions and fraud prevention then build role-specific depth for staff who need it. Many firms assign this first, then layer specialist training on top.
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