AML Awareness for Financial Services Firms
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Course Overview
A firm’s strongest defence against money laundering and terrorist financing is a risk-based framework that is understood, owned, and tested by its people. This interactive half-day workshop has been designed for senior compliance and risk professionals to align participants with current UK regulatory expectations and recognised good practice, while building practical capability across the end-to-end AML/CTF lifecycle.
The session is grounded in the Money Laundering Regulations 2017 training requirements, including the need for ongoing, role-appropriate training and awareness. It reflects FCA and industry guidance on effective financial crime systems and controls, including updated FCA Financial Crime Guide expectations around monitoring and suspicious activity detection, as well as JMLSG good practice on staff awareness and escalation. The workshop also includes practical coverage of SAR quality and decision-making, alongside the growing need to integrate sanctions controls into AML operating models.
Learning outcomes
By the end of the session, participants will be able to:
Understand current UK AML/CTF regulatory expectations and how they apply in practice
Apply a risk-based approach across the AML lifecycle, from onboarding through to ongoing monitoring and exit
Identify red flags, emerging risks, and indicators of suspicious activity across products, customers, and transactions
Make and evidence defensible AML and SAR decision-making in line with regulatory and law enforcement expectations
Assess SAR quality and improve internal escalation, documentation, and governance processes
Understand how sanctions controls intersect with AML frameworks and how to embed them effectively into operating models
Critically evaluate the effectiveness of their firm’s existing AML training, controls, and staff awareness arrangements
Who this course is for
This workshop is designed for professionals with responsibility for AML and financial crime oversight, including:
MLROs and Deputy MLROs
Heads of Compliance and Financial Crime
Senior Compliance and Risk Managers
AML, CDD, EDD, and Transaction Monitoring leads
Senior managers with AML accountability under SM&CR
The course is particularly relevant for professionals working within UK-regulated financial services firms who are responsible for designing, operating, or overseeing AML/CTF frameworks and for evidencing regulatory compliance.