Name: Customer Due Diligence (CDD) Workshop: Risk-Based Assessment and Regulatory Expectations
Start: 2026-06-10T14:00:00.000+01:00
End: 2026-06-10T17:00:00.000+01:00
Location: Online Event

The We Fight Fincrime Association delivers expert-led training designed to strengthen real-world financial crime defences through shared intelligence, lived experience, and cross-sector collaboration. 

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Effective Customer Due Diligence is a cornerstone of strong anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing frameworks and remains a key area of regulatory focus for UK-regulated financial services firms. This interactive half-day workshop is designed for senior compliance and financial crime professionals responsible for designing, overseeing, and challenging CDD frameworks.

The course focuses on how to implement a genuinely risk-based approach to customer due diligence that is proportionate, defensible, and aligned with current UK regulatory expectations and international good practice. Through a practical, workshop-led format, participants apply professional judgement to realistic customer scenarios, prepare customer risk assessments, and build end-to-end onboarding files.

The session examines when standard due diligence is sufficient, when Enhanced Due Diligence is required, and how CDD should interact with sanctions screening, beneficial ownership analysis, and ongoing monitoring. Strong emphasis is placed on evidencing decision-making, senior oversight, and quality assurance, enabling participants to critically assess their firm’s approach and clearly articulate “what good looks like” to regulators, auditors, and Boards.

By the end of the session, participants will be able to:

This workshop is designed for professionals with responsibility for CDD and financial crime controls, including:

The course is particularly suited to UK-regulated firms seeking to strengthen the robustness, consistency, and defensibility of their CDD frameworks in response to regulatory scrutiny.