Emerging Risks Online Courses
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Online Training
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30+ Mins
Dive into interactive courses to help you learn new investigative skills, illicit trends, and regulatory priorities at your own pace. Each emerging risk course is between 30 - 60mins in length and includes videos elements, interactive activities, and assessments.
Check Fraud: Fundamentals, 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
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
Investigative Skills Part 1 - Introduction to Risk & Investigation
This course examines the reasoning and methodology behind effective case creation, guiding learners through the crucial early stages of an investigation. Develop skills to evaluate existing information and identify additional data that can be readily obtained within their institution, ensuring thorough and 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
- How to apply knowledge through interactive exercises designed to reinforce learning
- Best practices for engaging with audio and video course content for the most effective experience
Additional Details
Delivery: Online, self-paced
Components: Videos, interactive activities and assessment
Duration: 60mins
Access: 1 year
Certificate: Certificate of Completion
Price: $75
Business Email Compromise
Business Email Compromise (BEC) and related attacks like Email Account Compromise (EAC) and Vendor Account Compromise (VEC) have surged, exploiting human error to steal tens of billions. This ACFCS Emerging Risk 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
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
The Rise of Money Mules
Fraud threats have surged, driving unprecedented 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
Fundamentals 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 Fundamentals -
Global Edition
This course introduces learners to the global pursuit of illicit finance, with a focus on identifying, tracing, and disrupting the movement of criminal proceeds. Through brief scenarios and interactive exercises, participants will explore key techniques used to detect and respond to money laundering and financial crime schemes.
Learning Objectives
You’ll learn:
- An introduction to AML programs and counter-terrorist financing
- A brief overview of AML program elements, including customer due diligence, risk assessments and customer monitoring
- An introduction to red flags of financial crime and how to report them
- Rules, regulations, and penalties in the AML Context
Additional Details
Delivery: Online, self-paced
Components: Videos, interactive activities and assessment
Duration: 60mins
Access: 1 year
Certificate: Certificate of Completion
Price: $100
Fincrime Fundamentals -
Global Edition
This course covers some of the fundamental financial crime and compliance topics, trends and best practices related to money laundering and terrorist financing, fraud, market abuse, anti-bribery and corruption, cybercrime and data breaches and the importance of a strong whistleblower program.
Learning Objectives
You’ll learn:
- Understanding the stages of money laundering - Placement, layering and integration
- Recognizing key pillars of an anti-money laundering program
- Understanding how deception and misrepresentation can fuel fraud and related warning signs for insider risks
- Understanding the various types of market abuse in the securities and trading spaces, including Internal fraud, external fraud and collusion
- Recognizing some of the key organizations spearheading the fight against financial crime, such as the Financial Action Task Force
- Learning some of the seminal laws in place in the United Kingdom and United States, including the U.K. Criminal Finances Act, U.S. Patriot Act and U.S. Anti-Money Laundering Act
- Understanding the basics of corruption and how it weakens all efforts against financial crime at the country level
Additional Details
Delivery: Online, self-paced
Components: Videos, interactive activities and assessment
Duration: 60mins
Access: 1 year
Certificate: Certificate of Completion
Price: $100
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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 financial crime 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, interactive activities and assessment
Duration: 30mins
Access: 1 year
Certificate: Certificate of Completion
Price: $75
AML Basics - U.S. Edition
This course covers some of the fundamental financial crime and compliance topics, trends and best practices related to money laundering and terrorist financing, fraud, market abuse, anti-bribery and corruption, cybercrime and data breaches and the importance of a strong whistleblower program.
Learning Objectives
You’ll learn:
- Understanding the stages of money laundering - Placement, layering and integration
- Recognizing key pillars of an anti-money laundering program
- Understanding how deception and misrepresentation can fuel fraud and related warning signs for insider risks
- Understanding the various types of market abuse in the securities and trading spaces, including Internal fraud, external fraud and collusion
- Recognizing some of the key organizations spearheading the fight against financial crime, such as the Financial Action Task Force
- Learning some of the seminal laws in place in the United Kingdom and United States, including the U.K. Criminal Finances Act, U.S. Patriot Act and U.S. Anti-Money Laundering Act
- Understanding the basics of corruption and how it weakens all efforts against financial crime at the country level
Additional Details
Delivery: Online, self-paced
Components: Videos, interactive activities and assessment
Duration: 30mins
Access: 1 year
Certificate: Certificate of Completion
Price: $75
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