Navigating Financial Crime Risks and Threats
Understand how financial crime risks and threats evolve—and how organizations respond
Gain practical knowledge and insight into how organizations identify, assess, and manage financial crime risks and threats in an increasingly complex environment. This course explores the relationship between risk types, emerging threats, and external drivers such as global events, regulatory priorities, and technological change. You will examine how governance structures, data, and intelligence support risk-based decision-making, and how incidents, assurance activities, and metrics are used to monitor exposure and strengthen oversight. By the end of the course, you will develop the perspective needed to navigate evolving financial crime risks and support informed, risk-aware actions across the organization.
Course Content
You’ll learn to
- Identify the types of risks and risk interdependencies organizations face and explain the fundamental concepts of risk management
- Identify common financial crime risks and threats and explain the fundamental concepts of risk management
- Identify the components of risk management governance and the source and use of intelligence data
- Explain incident management, assurance programs, and use of metrics in risk management
Key course topics
- Risk types and interdependencies
- Financial crime risks and evolving threat landscape
- Risk management governance and intelligence-led decision-making
- Incident, assurance and metrics management
Intended audience
This course is designed for professionals involved in the oversight, design, or execution of financial crime risk management programs, including:
- Mid- to senior-level risk, compliance, and AFC professionals responsible for managing financial crime risk
- Compliance, AML, and BSA officers who develop, implement, or monitor risk management frameworks
- Senior leaders and control function roles, including MLROs and compliance executives, seeking advanced insight into financial crime risk, governance, and mitigation
Course structure
- Online and self-paced
- Four hours of coursework
- Complete within 4 weeks
- 20-question final assessment
- Immediate results and certificate of achievement upon completion
Next Steps
The Navigating Financial Crime Risks and Threats Certificate is one of four risk management certificates that form part of our ACAMS Certified AFC Risk Manager program. If you complete each of the certificates and pass the proctored exam, you will earn the ACAMS Certified AFC Risk Manager designation. Find out more about becoming certified here.
FAQs
While there are no prerequisites for taking this course, it is designed to support AFC professionals who are mid- to senior-level risk management professionals. It will benefit anyone in an organization who develops, implements, or monitors risk management frameworks.
You have four weeks from the date you purchase the certificate to access the study materials and complete this Navigating Financial Crime Risks and Threats certificate course. After four weeks, your access to the study materials will expire. The exact date your access will expire can be found on our LMS. Please contact us if you need to extend your access.
This course is currently available in English.
Yes, all ACAMS certificate courses are accessible on desktop, mobile, and most other devices.
An ACAMS certificate course is a short, self-paced online course focused on a specific topic within anti-financial crime (AFC). These courses are designed to be completed in about four weeks and include a 20-question final assessment. Upon completion, learners receive a certificate of achievement, demonstrating their understanding of the subject matter.
In contrast, an ACAMS certification program – such as the ACAMS Certified AFC Risk Manager Certification – is a comprehensive, structured program that validates a professional’s knowledge and experience in a broader area of AFC. Certification programs typically require several months of study and preparation, culminating in a rigorous exam of approximately 90 multiple-choice questions. Upon passing, candidates earn a designation, which must be maintained through ongoing education and recertification every three years.
This course is compatible with most operating systems and browsers. The ACAMS Learning Management System (LMS) can be accessed at learn.acams.org. If your access to our LMS portal is blocked, please contact your organization’s IT department for assistance.
Pricing
- Access your self-paced online course
- 400 hours of training webinars live and on demand
- Practitioner toolkits and best practice guides
- Perspectives from 115,000+ global members
- Discounts on all ACAMS products