Compliance Essentials: E-learning Courses for UK Staff with CPD-Accredited Options
Our Compliance Essentials library provides the training to help you manage your company’s key compliance issues. This training provides your staff with the relevant knowledge to meet regulatory requirements with over 120 e-learning courses.
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Over 120 e-learning modules, varying in length and topic.
Is our Compliance Essentials library right for you?
Compliance Essentials is our most popular course library — and it’s easy to see why. Our Essentials library covers key compliance challenges UK businesses face, spanning financial crime, cybersecurity, equality and diversity, and ESG. You can host the library on our fully managed LMS portal or your existing LMS. If something isn’t quite right, you can customise this library by exploring our bespoke training options.
What you'll find in our Essentials library
See what's included in our Compliance Essentials library below. Looking for something specific? Use the search bar to find what you need. If you have any questions, reach out to us and tell us more about your needs — we're happy to help.
PCI Data Security Standard Compliance Training Course
Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance training, answering questions about audit logs, PAN masking, and network security controls.
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Managing Safely Compliance E-Learning for Managers
Line managers own safety in their teams. Run credible risk assessments, control hazards and understand the duties that sit with you, not elsewhere.
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Data Protection Compliance Training Course
UK GDPR asks for judgement, not memorised rules. Tell personal from special category data, protect it properly and know when a breach gets reported.
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Market Abuse Compliance E-Learning Course
Market abuse rules reach well beyond the trading floor. Recognise inside information, unlawful disclosure and manipulation before they become an issue.
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Working Safely Compliance Training Course
Most workplace injuries are predictable. Help staff spot common hazards, read safety signs, respond to emergencies and report what needs reporting.
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Financial Sanctions Compliance E-Learning Course
One missed match can cost a licence. Understand designated persons, your screening obligations and exactly how to escalate a possible sanctions hit.
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Healthy Working
Small habits protect health across a long career. Posture, display screen use, manual handling and the wellbeing risks staff rarely mention.
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Code of Conduct
A code only works when people can apply it. Turn your standards into decisions staff can defend, from trading conflicts to fraud and bribery.
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Business Ethics and Integrity
Rules run out before dilemmas do. Real scenarios help staff reason through grey areas and reach decisions they can explain to a regulator or client.
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Embargoes and Sanctions
Embargoes stop everything; sanctions stop some things. Know the difference, the prohibited transactions and asset freezes, and how to raise a concern.
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Safeguarding the Vulnerable
Vulnerability is usually noticed before it is reported. Recognise the signs of abuse, respond well to a disclosure and act within your duty of care.
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Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)
ESG questions now come from clients, regulators and staff. Understand the issues facing financial services and discuss your position credibly.
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Intellectual Property Rights Training Course
Your brand and ideas are assets worth defending. Understand copyright, patents and trademarks, and how staff avoid infringing someone else's rights.
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Employment Rights Act for Managers
Prepare managers for Employment Rights Act changes with practical employment law compliance training, helping build confidence in handling workplace issues.
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Financial Crime Prevention E-Learning Course for Staff
Help staff spot the warning signs, report suspicious activity and prevent financial crime from going undetected with practical compliance training.
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Preventing Sexual Harassment for Managers
Equip managers to prevent sexual harassment, challenge inappropriate behaviour and meet their legal responsibilities before incidents occur.
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First Aid Awareness
The first few minutes matter most. Staff learn who the first aiders are, the risk factors behind incidents and what to do before help arrives.
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Fraud Prevention for Managers
Managers see the patterns before the auditors do. Recognise red flags, understand where your business is exposed and apply policy consistently.
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Information Security Compliance Training Course
Lost information costs revenue and trust. Staff learn how data is classified, how to handle sensitive material and what a breach really leads to.
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Fraud Prevention E-learning Course
Fraud is a crime and a route into money laundering. Help staff recognise the types, the triggers and the red flags that show up before the loss.
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Conflicts of Interest Compliance E-Learning Course
Conflicts rarely look like corruption at the start. Gifts, hospitality, outside work and self-dealing, plus when a conflict has to be reported.
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Understanding Failure to Prevent Fraud (FTPF) for Managers
The failure to prevent fraud offence makes prevention a corporate duty. Managers learn the scope, the red flags and the procedures that count.
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Directive on Administrative Cooperation in the Field of Taxation (DAC6)
UK firms still face cross-border reporting duties. Identify reportable arrangements, apply the Main Benefit Test and recognise the hallmarks.
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Anti-Bribery and Corruption Training
Bribery is still normal business in some markets. Understand the Bribery Act 2010, spot the red flags and apply your gifts and hospitality rules.
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Preventing Sexual Harassment Training Course
The Worker Protection Act raised the bar for employers. Staff learn which behaviours carry risk, what their responsibilities are and how to report.
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Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing E-learning Course
Launderers rely on staff who do not ask. Conduct proportionate customer due diligence, recognise red flags and report suspicion the right way.
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Modern Slavery Compliance Training Course
Modern slavery hides in supply chains and agency labour. Recognise the signs, understand the risk to your business and know what the Act requires.
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Preventing the Facilitation of Tax Evasion
Avoidance is legal, evasion is not, and facilitating it is a corporate offence. Spot the red flags and follow the prevention measures in place.
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Bribery Prevention Compliance E-learning Course
Bribery carries unlimited fines and prison sentences. Recognise the red flags and apply your rules on gifts, hospitality, donations and expenses.
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Harassment in the Workplace
Harassment is rarely just words. Understand protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010 and where everyday behaviour crosses the line.
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Responsible Use of Social Media
One post can undo years of reputation building. Use social media professionally, protect personal data and stay inside your own policy.
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Manual Handling
Back injuries keep more staff off work than almost anything else. Practical lifting technique, plus the controls your organisation already has.
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Competition Law
Collusion rarely looks like a cartel meeting. Understand anti-competitive agreements, information exchange and abuse of a dominant position.
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Driving at Work
Learn about vehicle safety, journey planning and accident prevention with this RoSPA-accredited driving at work training course for FCA-regulated staff.
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Accident Reporting and Investigation
Investigations that stop at the immediate cause repeat the accident. Know what is reportable and work through the HSE's six-step process.
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Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH)
Hazardous substances cause harm slowly as well as suddenly. Understand the risks, follow your controls and prevent incidents when handling them.
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Electricity
Electrical faults rarely give warning. Recognise the risks around devices and installations, and follow the controls that keep staff safe.
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FATCA and the CRS
Tax transparency rules reach ordinary account opening. Identify reportable accounts and apply the due diligence FATCA and the CRS require.
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Financial Integrity
Inaccurate reporting invites sanctions and litigation. Understand the three key financial reports and how to spot errors in revenue, costs and assets.
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Fire Warden Training
Fire wardens act while everyone else hesitates. Understand your duties, spot hazards before they matter and evacuate people calmly and safely.
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Ladders and Stepladders
Falls from low heights still break bones. Understand when a ladder is the right tool, check it properly and follow the controls already in place.
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AI Literacy at Work
Staff are already using AI. Show them how it produces answers, where it fails and how to use it without leaking confidential or personal data.
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Working at Height
A corporate offence puts prevention on everyone. Learn how failure to prevent fraud works and use the fraud triangle to spot the warning signs.
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Understanding Failure to Prevent Fraud (FTPF)
Financial services firms are exposed when staff or agents commit fraud. Understand corporate criminal liability and the procedures that prevent it.
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Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA)
Digital disruption is a supervisory matter now. ICT risk management, incident reporting and the resilience financial entities must be able to show.
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Market Abuse Regulation
A short refresher for people who already know the basics. Qualifying markets, who falls in scope and the behaviours that break the rules.
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Environmental Awareness
Carbon footprints are built from everyday decisions. Understand your organisation's impact and the practical steps staff can take at work.
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Electronic Communications
An email lives longer than the mood it was written in. Standards for tone and content, plus what retention and monitoring actually mean.
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Unconscious Bias for Managers
Bias shows up in hiring, promotion and who gets the interesting work. Recognise your own patterns and make decisions you could justify openly.
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Display Screen Equipment (DSE)
Screens are everywhere and so are the aches. Set up a workstation properly and prevent the ill health that comes from prolonged screen use.
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Equality and Diversity for Managers
Employment decisions built on assumption are unlawful as well as poor practice. Protected characteristics, discrimination types and fairer calls.
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Speak Up
People stay quiet for reasons that make sense to them. Understand psychological safety and remove the barriers that stop concerns being raised.
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Asbestos
Asbestos is still in thousands of buildings. Know where it hides, why exposure is so serious and exactly what to do if you disturb it.
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Lone Working
Working alone is not the same as being unsupported. Who counts as a lone worker, the hazards they face and the duties sitting on both sides.
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Noise
Hearing loss is gradual and permanent. Understand the risks of prolonged noise exposure and the controls that protect people before damage starts.
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Violence and Aggression
Hostility at work rarely arrives without warning. Recognise escalation early, manage the situation safely and use the controls already in place.
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Work Equipment
Familiar equipment causes most injuries. Understand the risks of the tools your teams use daily and the controls that keep operators safe.
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Work-related Stress
Pressure becomes stress when it stops being manageable. Recognise the causes, use the support available and protect performance as well as health.
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Disability Awareness
Most disabilities are not visible. Understand your legal duties, get reasonable adjustments right and remove the barriers people meet at work.
Equality and Diversity E-learning Course
The nine protected characteristics shape decisions more than most people realise. Discrimination types, harassment and what fairness looks like.
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Whistleblowing Compliance E-Learning Course
Staff need to know where to take a concern before they have one. What whistleblowing covers, how to report and the protections that apply.
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Cybersecurity Compliance Training Course
Attackers aim at people, not firewalls. Spot phishing, hacking and fraud attempts, and act quickly when something looks wrong.
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Fire Safety Compliance E-Learning Course
Fire risk builds from small habits. Understand the controls your company has in place and the measures that reduce the risk where you work.
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Information Security
A short refresher for busy teams. Classification, safe use of email and the web, and the habits that keep sensitive information protected.
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Fraud Prevention
Twenty minutes to sharpen instincts. The main types of fraud, the red flags that precede them and how your policies are meant to work.
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Unconscious Bias
Snap judgements feel like instinct, which is what makes them hard to catch. Identify your hidden biases and reduce their pull on your decisions.
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Records Management
Disposing of the wrong record is as risky as keeping the wrong one. Record types, archiving, retention and the process disposal has to follow.
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Slips and Trips
The most common workplace injury is also the most preventable. Spot the risk areas and follow the controls that keep floors and routes clear.
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Healthy Working
A quick reset on the basics. Posture, screen use and manual handling, plus the wellbeing habits that protect people over a long career.
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Hybrid Working
Hybrid only works when the rules are clear. Make the arrangement productive and keep safety and wellbeing in view wherever people log on.
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Mental Health at Work for Managers
Managers notice changes before HR does. Recognise stress in your team, understand its causes and respond in a way that helps rather than intrudes.
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Menopause Awareness
Menopause affects attendance, confidence and retention. Understand the stages, the symptoms people rarely mention and the adjustments that work.
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General Office Hygiene
Infections spread through shared spaces and shared kit. Practical measures that cut transmission without turning the office into a clinic.
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Identity Crime
Identity theft is the largest category on the National Fraud Database. How it happens, the red flags and what to do when you suspect it.
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Right to Work in the UK
Right to work checks protect your business and your candidates. Know the law, check thoroughly and avoid discriminating in the process.
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Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Risks of Virtual Assets
Crypto gives launderers speed and distance. Understand how criminals move value through virtual assets and the red flags staff should act on.
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Legionella
Legionella grows quietly in water systems. Understand how it spreads, who is most at risk and the controls that keep systems safe.
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Mandatory Disclosure Rules (UK MDR)
Offshore arrangements draw disclosure obligations. Understand who the UK MDR applies to, what must be reported and the activity that triggers it.
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Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
PPE is the last line, not the first. Choose the right equipment for the hazard, wear it correctly and meet the duties around maintenance.
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Understanding Failure to Prevent Fraud (FTPF)
A short refresher on a serious offence. How failure to prevent fraud works, the fraud triangle and what supporting prevention looks like.
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Anti-Money Laundering [Financial services version]
Fifteen minutes to reset the fundamentals. The laundering cycle, the offences and penalties, and what your reporting duties actually require.
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Data Protection
A quick reminder of what matters most. Personal and sensitive data, the principles behind compliance and the habits that keep information secure.
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Bribery Prevention Refresher Course
Bribery risk often arrives through third parties. A refresher on the Bribery Act, associated persons due diligence and your gifts rules.
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Phishing
Phishing works because it looks routine. Spot the signs, protect yourself and your organisation, and know what to do the moment you have clicked.
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Preventing the Facilitation of Tax Evasion [Financial services version]
Strict liability means good intentions are no defence. Your duty over associated persons, the warning signs and how to report suspicion.
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Gifts and Hospitality
Corporate courtesy has a line and it moves by context. Know where the risks sit, what your policy allows and when a gift becomes a problem.
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Mental Health at Work
Stress is the most common cause of work-related ill health. Recognise it in yourself and others, and know where support is available.
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Economic Sanctions
Sanctions change faster than most policies. A refresher on why they exist, how they affect operations and what compliance demands of you.
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Whistleblowing
Speaking up should not feel like a risk. A refresher on what whistleblowing covers, the protections available and your company's arrangements.
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Working Safely
Fifteen minutes on the hazards people stop noticing. Safety signs, office risks, emergency response and what needs reporting.
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Working Remotely
Rights and responsibilities travel home with you. Set up your space, protect data, stay connected and look after your own wellbeing.
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DSE
Discomfort becomes injury quietly. A fast look at the risks of prolonged screen use and the controls that prevent lasting damage.
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Counter Terrorist Financing
Terrorism runs on funding like anything else. Recognise the channels, understand the disruption measures and know your duty to report.
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Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR)
Consent rules catch out well-meaning marketing teams. What PECR permits, what it prohibits and the obligations around electronic contact.
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Third-Party Due Diligence
You inherit the risks your suppliers carry. Understand the five-step process, do it properly and recognise the red flags that should stop a deal.
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IR35
Contractor status is a tax question with real consequences. Assess inside and outside determinations and meet the duties on larger firms.
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PDMR Dealing
Managers with inside information have narrow windows. Know the scope of PDMR dealing rules, the exempt transactions and prohibited periods.
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Preventing Radicalisation
Early concerns are easier to act on than late ones. Understand the Prevent duty, the signs of radicalisation and how to refer safely.
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Return to Work
Returning after long absence needs planning, not just a start date. Understand the causes, prepare the conversation and agree adjustments.
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Managing Remote Workers
Remote suits some roles and undermines others. Understand the rights involved, judge the role honestly and keep communication deliberate.
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New and Expectant Mothers at Work
Pregnancy changes the risk picture at work. Understand the common hazards, the controls that address them and what to expect on return.
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Equality and Diversity in the Workplace
A quick refresher on fair treatment. Protected characteristics, the forms discrimination takes and how to recognise it before it escalates.
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Anti-Money Laundering [Non-financial services version]
Money laundering is not only a bank problem. The three stages, the offences and penalties, and what to do when a transaction looks wrong.
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Preventing the Facilitation of Tax Evasion [Non-financial services version]
The Criminal Finances Act applies well beyond finance teams. Your duty over associated persons and the signs that risk is rising.
Suspicious Activity Reporting
Suspicion you keep to yourself is a criminal risk. What to look for and how to report it so you meet your legal duty.
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Customer Due Diligence
CDD is everyone's responsibility, not just onboarding's. How to do it properly and the red flags that should stop a relationship.
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Tipping Off
Warning a customer is a criminal offence, even unintentionally. How to handle someone under investigation without saying too much.
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Anti-Competitive Agreements
A casual conversation with a competitor can become a criminal offence. Know where the line sits and how to avoid crossing it by accident.
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Counter-Proliferation Financing
Proliferation financing now sits inside your AML checks. Build it into existing processes and navigate sanctions without stalling business.
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Abuse of Dominant Position
Market power invites scrutiny. Recognise unfair pricing, tell bundling from tying and understand the penalties for misusing a strong position.
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Corrupt Hiring Practices
Recruitment is a financial crime risk few people check. Spot bribery and corruption in hiring and know when to escalate a concern.
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Abuse of Position
Using your role for personal gain is fraud, even when it feels minor. The three elements of the offence and the consequences that follow.
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Legitimate Interest Assessments
Legitimate interests is the hardest lawful basis to rely on. Learn the six bases and how to complete an LIA that would survive challenge.
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To Pay or Not To Pay?
A small payment to speed up a permit is still a bribe. Spot the demand, resist it and know the very narrow exceptions that exist.
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