Online Training Courses
Learn on your schedule with flexible, self-paced training that helps you build stronger skills, deepen your expertise, and stay up-to-date in a rapidly changing landscape.
Emerging Risks Online Courses
30+ Mins
Individuals seeking CFCS certification must be active members and are required to purchase the CFCS certification package as part of the certification process.
Check Fraud: Fundamenals, Typologies, and Red Flags
Building on skills developed during the pandemic, organized crime rings are driving check fraud using advanced counterfeit techniques, mail theft, corrupt insiders within postal services, and accomplices inside financial institutions, making their schemes increasingly sophisticated and harder to detect for banks, businesses, and consumers.
Learning Objectives
You’ll learn:
- Key players in the check fraud world and how they operate
- Check fraud typologies and techniques used to obtain and deposit fraudulent checks
- How the proceeds of check fraud are moved and laundered via money mules
- Red flags and risk indicators of potential check fraud
- Compliance controls and best practices for detecting and preventing check fraud
Additional Details
Delivery: Online, self-paced
Components: Videos, interactive activities and assessment
Duration: 30mins
Access: 1 year
Certificate: Certificate of Completion
Price: $75 (Included with ACFCS Membership)
Combating the Finances of Fentanyl Trafficking
Illicit opioids such as fentanyl have become a devastating scourge in North America and a highly profitable enterprise for transnational organized crime rings. This course equips learners with essential skills to detect and prevent the laundering of proceeds linked to fentanyl, strengthening defenses against this growing threat.
Learning Objectives
You’ll learn:
- Key players in the trafficking of fentanyl and synthetic opioids and the supply chain
- How transnational organized crime groups move and conceal funds for the production of synthetic opioids
- How the proceeds of fentanyl trafficking are laundered, and key techniques used
- Red flags and risk indicators of potential trafficking activity
- Compliance controls and best practices for detecting activity tied to fentanyl trafficking
Additional Details
Delivery: Online, self-paced
Components: Videos, interactive activities and assessment
Duration: 60mins
Access: 1 year
Certificate: Certificate of Completion
Price: $75 (Included with ACFCS Membership)
Investigative Skills Part 1 - Intro to Risk & Investigation
This course examines the reasoning and methodology behind effective case creation, guiding learners through the early stages of an investigation. Develop skills to evaluate existing information and identify additional data that can be readily obtained in their institution, ensuring a well-structured investigative groundwork.
Learning Objectives
You’ll learn:
- Key triggers that prompt the creation of an investigation
- The role of risk in financial institutions and how it shapes investigative processes
- The step-by-step process of conducting an investigation and internal review
Additional Details
Delivery: Online, self-paced
Components: Videos, interactive activities and assessment
Duration: 60mins
Access: 1 year
Certificate: Certificate of Completion
Price: $75 (Included with ACFCS Membership)
Business Email Compromise
Business Email Compromise (BEC) and related attacks like Email Account Compromise and Vendor Account Compromise have surged, exploiting human error to steal billions. This course equips you to spot red flags, typologies, and transaction patterns, strengthening defenses against these complex threats.
Learning Objectives
You’ll learn:
- Bank Customers: Learn how to recognize and avoid falling victim to BEC attacks
- AML Teams: Enhance your ability to detect and report suspicious transactions linked to BEC attacks.
- Fraud Teams: Strengthen your skills in investigating BEC incidents affecting customers
- Cybersecurity Teams: Identify email-related cyber threats and protect your bank's systems from BEC attacks
Additional Details
Delivery: Online, self-paced
Components: Videos, interactive activities and assessment
Duration: 60mins
Access: 1 year
Certificate: Certificate of Completion
Price: $75 (Included with ACFCS Membership)
Pig Butchering Risk Report
Pig Butchering, a financial grooming scam, causes losses reaching hundreds of thousands per victim. This course helps professionals spot red flags, investigate and report activity, and apply best practices to protect institutions and customers through interactive content, practical guidance, and real-world fraud prevention strategies.
Learning Objectives
You’ll learn:
- Understand the fundamentals of the Pig Butchering scheme
- Get practical guidance on investigating, reporting, and responding to pig butchering activity
- Gain skills to strengthen fraud identification, protect customers, and prevent future attacks
Additional Details
Delivery: Online, self-paced
Components: Videos, interactive activities and assessment
Duration: 60mins
Access: 1 year
Certificate: Certificate of Completion
Price: $75 (Included with ACFCS Membership)
The Rise of Money Mules
Fraud threats have surged, driving demand for accounts to move funds from romance scams, cybercrime, and more. This course equips professionals to recognize money mule recruitment tactics, spot suspicious transaction patterns, and implement practical measures to detect and prevent mule activity.
Learning Objectives
You’ll learn:
- How and why financial criminals use money mules
- Trends in mule recruitment, including the use of social media and more
- Typical customer profiles and demographics targeted for muling
- How to improve money mule detection in customer onboarding, monitoring and investigations
Additional Details
Delivery: Online, self-paced
Components: Videos, interactive activities and assessment
Duration: 120mins
Access: 1 year
Certificate: Certificate of Completion
Price: $150 (Included with ACFCS Membership)
Essentials Online Courses
45+ Mins
The series is designed to be flexible and accessible for learners at all levels, from entry-level professionals to more experienced staff seeking a refresher. By completing these courses, staff will strengthen their understanding of compliance best practices, reinforce organizational defenses, and contribute to the broader effort to prevent financial crime globally.
AML Essentials - Global Edition
This course provides a practical, accessible overview of global AML standards, key risks, and controls used to combat financial crime. Designed for frontline and compliance professionals, the course explains how money laundering and terrorist financing operate and how effective AML programs help detect and prevent these threats, enabling participants to recognize red flags and support compliance efforts worldwide.
Learning Objectives
You’ll learn:
- Understand and differentiate money laundering from terrorist financing and explain why both threaten global financial integrity and the importance of AML compliance programs that are used to combat financial crime
- Define what is meant by a risk-based approach
- Identify the importance of Know Your Customer (KYC), Customer Due Diligence (CDD), and Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD)
- Define record-keeping requirements related to AML programs
- Explain the purpose of sanctions
- Recognize common red-flag indicators of suspicious activity related to money-laundering and terrorist financing
Additional Details
Delivery: Online, self-paced
Components: Videos, interactive activities and assessment
Duration: 60mins
Access: 1 year
Certificate: Certificate of Completion
Price: $75
Fraud Essentials - Global Edition
Fraud threats have surged, driving demand for accounts to move funds from romance scams, cybercrime, and more. This course equips professionals to recognize money mule recruitment tactics, spot suspicious transaction patterns, and implement practical measures to detect and prevent mule activity.
Learning Objectives
You’ll learn:
- How and why financial criminals use money mules
- Trends in mule recruitment, including the use of social media and more
- Typical customer profiles and demographics targeted for muling
- How to improve money mule detection in customer onboarding, monitoring and investigations
Additional Details
Delivery: Online, self-paced
Components: Videos, interactive activities and assessment
Duration: 60mins
Access: 1 year
Certificate: Certificate of Completion
Price: $75
AML Basics Online Courses
30+ Mins
These brief, interactive trainings courses are designed for those new to the financial crime world, and includes scenario-based learning, quiz questions and a primer on the rules, regulations and roles that make up AML and financial crime compliance.
AML Basics - Canada Edition
Strengthen your fincrime compliance expertise with this course. Designed for frontline staff, compliance professionals, and fintech teams, it provides an introduction to the AML framework, covering PCMLTFA, FINTRAC guidance, reporting obligations, red flags, and risk‑based approaches aligned with FATF standards.
Learning Objectives
You’ll learn:
- Differentiate AML from Terrorist Financing: Understand the key differences and why both present critical threats to Canada’s financial system
- Master the Legal Framework: Identify the core elements of Canada’s AML regime, including the PCMLTFA and FINTRAC’s role
- Know the Obligations: Recognize Canada’s reporting entities and their regulatory requirements
- Apply Risk-Based Customer Due Diligence (CDD): Learn effective steps for verifying beneficial ownership, conducting ongoing monitoring, and tailoring your approach to risk levels
- Understand Enforcement and Penalties: Explore how enforcement tools — from administrative monetary penalties (AMPs) to criminal prosecution — are applied, and how robust internal controls protect organizations from these risks
Additional Details
Delivery: Online, self-paced
Components: Videos instruction, interactive knowledge checks, downloadable resources, and assessment
Duration: 30mins
Access: 1 year
Certificate: Certificate of Completion
Price: $75
AML Basics - U.S. Edition
This course introduces learners to the core concepts, laws, and compliance expectations of Anti-Money Laundering (AML) in the United States. Through practical examples, key definitions, and real-world scenarios, participants will build a clear understanding of money laundering, terrorist financing, regulatory obligations, and the risk-based approach essential for effective compliance.
Learning Objectives
You’ll learn:
- Define and Differentiate money laundering from terrorist financing, recognize common red flags and typologies, and explain why both threaten the integrity and security of the U.S. financial system.
- Identify the core elements of the U.S. AML legal framework, including the Bank Secrecy Act, USA PATRIOT Act, AMLA of 2020, the Corporate Transparency Act, and FinCEN regulations.
- Recognize U.S. reporting entities and obligations from Currency Transaction Reports (CTRs) to Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs), along with recordkeeping and information-sharing requirements.
- Apply risk-based Compliance Approach including Customer Due Diligence (CDD) practices, beneficial ownership requirements under the Corporate Transparency Act, customer identification programs (CIP), and ongoing monitoring.
- Outline enforcement tools and penalties: from civil monetary penalties and regulatory actions to criminal prosecution—and describe how strong internal controls and compliance programs mitigate these risks.
Additional Details
Delivery: Online, self-paced
Components: Videos instruction, interactive knowledge checks, downloadable resources, and assessment
Duration: 60mins
Access: 1 year
Certificate: Certificate of Completion
Price: $75
