This credential certifies foundational anti-financial-crime knowledge at entry level. Holders have completed a 22-module, six-chapter programme covering the full AML/CFT landscape: what financial crime is and how money laundering, terrorist financing, and proliferation financing actually work; financial-crime risk and the risk-based approach; the core functions of a compliance programme — KYC, customer and ongoing due diligence, sanctions, and suspicious-activity reporting; how exposure differs across business sectors; the international framework and the regulators that set and enforce the rules; and professional ethics and conduct.

AML Foundations is built on structured video instruction and interactive learning modules, with a knowledge check at the end of every chapter and a comprehensive final examination. Holders have worked through all six chapters, passed every chapter knowledge check, and passed a 30-question final exam covering the complete syllabus.

An AML Foundations holder can recognise the main financial-crime typologies and their red flags, explain how a risk-based approach is applied in practice, navigate the core controls of a compliance programme — from customer due diligence to sanctions screening and suspicious-activity reporting — and understand who regulates financial crime and what non-compliance costs. It is the practical grounding for a first role in compliance, onboarding, or financial-crime operations.