This credential certifies operational AML/CFT capability at senior-specialist level. Holders have completed a 54-module, 11-chapter program covering the full anti-financial crime workflow: risk assessment, customer due diligence and EDD, transaction monitoring, sanctions and proliferation-financing controls, suspicious activity reporting, investigations, and program governance.

Unlike knowledge-only certifications, CASS is assessed on applied judgment. Holders complete twenty interactive simulators across the full operational range — including alert triage, full case investigation, KYC decisioning, network detection, SAR drafting, MLRO decision-making, and a regulatory examination defense — and pass a 100-question final assessment.

A CASS holder can investigate a complex case, decide whether to escalate, close, or report, document that decision to a standard that withstands audit and regulatory scrutiny, and assess whether a control is actually working.