Financial Crime Compliance Training
E-learning courses for staff
People are your first line of defence against financial crime. Without the right knowledge, and confidence to act on it, even robust controls can fail. Effective compliance training helps staff recognise and respond to risks such as money laundering, sanctions breaches, tax evasion and fraud, reducing financial and reputational risk.
Skillcast provides 44 expert-led, flexible e-learning modules that are ready to be rolled out across your organisation or can be tailored to your specific risks and requirements. Strengthen your compliance controls, reduce financial crime exposure and give your staff the confidence to act when it matters.
Strengthen financial crime prevention with Skillcast compliance courses
Conduct Rules for Senior Managers at Dual Regulated Firms
Conduct rules for senior managers at dual-regulated firms compliance e-learning course, from acting with integrity to delivering good outcomes (Consumer Duty).
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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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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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Information Barriers
Information barriers compliance training for UK staff covering inside information, wall crossing, conflicts of interest and trading restrictions.
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Embargoes and Sanctions Training Course
Protect your business from market abuse by helping global staff recognise insider dealing, prevent unlawful disclosure and spot market manipulation before it leads to prosecution, fines or reputational damage.
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Market Abuse Regulation Global Compliance Training Course
Protect your business from market abuse by helping global staff recognise insider dealing, prevent unlawful disclosure and spot market manipulation before it leads to prosecution, fines or reputational damage.
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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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MCOB - General Standards
Understand and apply FCA MCOB standards, identify responsible lending requirements and make compliant decisions.
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Ethical Standards in Finance and Investment
Ensure finance professionals understand how to manage conflicts, protect confidential information and uphold FCA ethical standards.
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Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II)
MiFID II compliance requires more than awareness; train staff to apply product governance, protect investors and meet best execution and reporting obligations.
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Whistleblowing for Managers (FS)
A poor response can silence future concerns. Ensure financial services managers meet FCA requirements and know how to handle whistleblowing disclosures.
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Complaints Handling for Managers
Managers own the complaint process, not just the outcome. Resourcing, oversight and the checks that keep handling compliant when volumes rise.
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Financial Crime Prevention (Commercial Insurance)
Commercial insurance attracts fraud, laundering and sanctions risk. Give staff the red flags and the due diligence steps that keep business clean.
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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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Training and Competence
Competence has to be assessed, not assumed. Understand the FCA's T&C rules, supervision duties and what they mean for customer-facing staff.
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MCOB - APRC, Shortfalls and Charges
APRC is how customers compare loans, so errors are visible. Total charge for credit, shortfalls and charges in home finance promotions.
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Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing
AML failures end careers as well as licences. Recognise laundering and terrorist financing, apply due diligence and meet your reporting duties.
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BCOBS - General Standards
Retail banking is judged on clarity. Understand BCOBS general standards, what customers must be told and when your communication has to improve.
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Payment Services Regulations
The PSRs created rights customers now expect firms to honour. Covered services, conduct of business rules and how complaints must be handled.
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Senior Management Arrangements Systems and Controls
Governance fails quietly before it fails publicly. Understand the SYSC sourcebook, how responsibilities are recorded and the controls firms need.
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COBS - Client Categorisation
Categorisation decides how much protection a client gets. The categories, the criteria for re-categorisation and the records you must keep.
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COBS - Dealing and Managing
Best execution is a process, not a claim. Order handling, aggregation and allocation, explained so dealing decisions hold up to review.
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FSCS Deposit Protection
Customers ask about protection when they are already worried. Compensation limits, temporary high balances and what your firm has to provide.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Appropriate Use of Communication Channels
Regulators have fined firms over WhatsApp. Know which activities must be recorded and which channels are approved for business use.
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Understanding Sanctions
Sanctions restrict who you can do business with, and the lists move. Understand the types, the impact on operations and your part in compliance.
Money Laundering Red Flags
Suspicious transactions look ordinary until you know the pattern. Recognise common red flags and follow the reporting route that applies.
The Three Stages of Money Laundering
Placement, layering and integration. See how criminals disguise illicit funds and recognise the activity you are required to report.
Preventing Tipping Off
Saying too much to a customer under investigation is an offence. Handle their questions without breaching anti-money laundering law.
Terrorist Financing Red Flags
Terrorist funding hides in ordinary transactions. Recognise the suspicious patterns, the high-risk indicators and behaviour worth a second look.
Understanding Terrorist Financing
Funding comes from legitimate sources as well as criminal ones. Understand how terrorist groups raise money and the red flKnowing your customer is more than an identity check. Initial and ongoing due diligence, and when activity needs reporting.ags that follow.
Customer Due Diligence
Knowing your customer is more than an identity check. Initial and ongoing due diligence, and when activity needs reporting.
Enhanced Customer Due Diligence
Some relationships need a closer look. Recognise when enhanced due diligence applies and how to run the deeper checks properly.
Politically Exposed Persons
Influence and access make PEPs higher risk. Identify them, assess the risk sensibly and apply enhanced due diligence without causing offence.
Suspicious Activity Reporting
Suspicion triggers a legal obligation. Understand what must go to your MLRO, how to report it and the cost of staying quiet.
Unexplained Wealth Orders
Assets can be frozen when wealth cannot be explained. How unexplained wealth orders work and why suspicious activity reporting matters.
See related compliance topics
Bribery prevention
Bribery prevention is a focus that forms part of a robust financial crime compliance framework
Fraud Prevention
Fraud prevention is a branch of financial crime compliance, focusing on fraud risk identification and mitigation
Risk Management
Effective financial crime compliance forms a core part of broader risk management, identifying and reducing threats
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Turn compliance knowledge into action and reduce financial crime risk with learning paths tailored to day-to-day risk exposure.
- Compliance and Risk professionals:
Keep your compliance programmes current and reliable with expert-written AML e-learning delivered to those who need it most. - Operational and Customer-facing staff:
Gain a clear understanding and build the confidence to identify and respond to financial crime risks with training grounded in real-world scenarios. - Managers, Human Resources (HR) and Learning & Development (L&D) teams:
Simplify the delivery of training with ready-to-use courses, automated tracking, and tailored learning paths - making it easier to monitor and demonstrate compliance.
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