Live workshops for UK financial services firms with practical cases helping staff recognise risks, apply relevant procedures and make informed escalation decisions.
Delivered live by a practising MLRO, with content and assessments tailored to participants’ responsibilities.
Live remote or at your premises · ICA Fellow · ICA Certified MLRO
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Read the supporting article: AML training failures: what regulators actually find.
The FCA’s 2025 capital markets review highlights good practice in adapting training to the firm’s business model, risks and staff roles.
The FCA’s 2026 sanctions findings further identified training that lacked detail on staff responsibilities and indicators of sanctions evasion.
We build sessions around your business risks, staff roles and practical cases.
Sources: FCA capital markets review
The FCA’s 2024 PEP review identified inconsistencies between training and staff guidance, including different PEP definitions and unexplained risk ratings.
Our sessions incorporate your decision criteria, evidence requirements and escalation routes.
FCA guidance asks how firms assess training effectiveness and describes checking staff understanding as good practice.
We use case discussions and assessments to examine application of the material.
Source: FCA Financial Crime Guide
The FCA’s 2025 markets review identified overdue training without management escalation as poor practice.
We provide attendance and assessment records, with learning points for follow up.
Source: FCA capital markets review
Content can cover money laundering, terrorist financing, proliferation financing and sanctions, with practical examples matched to each audience.
AML refresher training and induction sessions for client facing staff, onboarding teams and operations.
Participants work through recognising warning signs, obtaining information, applying checks, recording their work and escalating concerns. Roles handling higher risk activity can receive greater depth and additional case work.
Technical workshops for compliance teams, MLROs and deputy MLROs who need deeper knowledge or more consistent application of their methodology.
Topics can include customer risk assessment, CDD and EDD, PEPs, source of funds and wealth, sanctions, transaction monitoring investigations, SARs and MLRO reporting.
Case work examines the evidence, reasoning and records supporting decisions.
Sessions focused on understanding the firm’s exposure and exercising informed oversight.
Content can cover risk appetite, management information, control limitations, outsourced arrangements, resources and remediation priorities. Practical cases help participants identify what needs challenge, approval or further investigation.
The depth reflects their governance and decision making responsibilities.
We establish the audience, learning objectives and areas requiring attention, then review the relevant business risks and procedures.
The material can address induction needs, recurring training, specialist development or a gap identified through an audit, supervisory review or internal testing.
Delivery is available remotely, at your premises, individually or in groups. Where e-learning is needed, we can refer you to a partner provider and complement the modules with tailored live sessions.
Tailored slides and supporting materials.Practical case studies and exercises.Attendance and assessment records.Identified learning points for follow up.Sessions range from 45 to 90 minutes, through a series of workshops, to a full day where greater depth is required.
For firms preparing an FCA application, training can be developed alongside our AML framework support for FCA authorisation, so staff learn how to apply the framework and procedures being put in place.We prepare training for businesses undertaking activities within the Money Laundering Regulations, including:
Customers, merchants, payment corridors, agents and fund flows.
Wallet activity, asset provenance, counterparties and blockchain alerts.
Lending, investment and other financial activities, ownership structures and movement of funds.
Client and matter risk, property and corporate transactions, and use of client accounts.
Buyers, sellers, beneficial owners, funding arrangements and property related warning signs.
Client acceptance, business activities, ownership and unusual arrangements.
Formation, trusts, nominees, registered offices and the purpose of structures.
Transactions, payment methods, intermediaries and buyer or seller identity.
The scope reflects your activities, risks and applicable sector guidance.
Individual sessions and small group workshops for analysts, senior analysts and practitioners developing their AML experience.
Individual technical sessions focus on a defined learning objective. You work through practical cases and receive feedback on your approach, reasoning and decision records.
Continuing mentoring provides a series of sessions around agreed development objectives, with feedback as your understanding develops.
Topics can include assessing customer risk, challenging source of funds evidence, investigating alerts and preparing an internal escalation. Small group workshops are available by arrangement.
Training is prepared and delivered by Oliver Roberts, a practising MLRO with nearly 15 years in AML and compliance, including previous Head of Compliance and MLRO responsibilities.
Sessions draw on work in AML frameworks, independent reviews, senior oversight and regulatory engagement.
About askMLRORegulation 24 of the MLRs 2017, as amended, requires appropriate awareness of applicable money laundering, terrorist financing, proliferation financing and data protection law, and regular training for relevant employees and relevant agents. Written records must be maintained, with measures reflecting the business’s nature, size and risks.
Where SYSC 6.3 applies, its rules require proportionate AML systems and controls. SYSC 6.3.7G identifies appropriate employee training as part of those arrangements.
An annual refresher can form part of an effective programme. Whether it is sufficient depends on your business risks, staff responsibilities and whether participants can apply what they learn.FCA guidance emphasises relevant, current training and checking understanding. JMLSG links training content and frequency to the firm’s risk assessment and individual roles. Additional training may be needed when risks, procedures or responsibilities change, or when reviews identify learning gaps. For businesses supervised by HMRC, its guidance expects at least annual training, with more frequent training for higher risk businesses and prompt updates where needed.
Changes to risks, roles, products or procedures may require additional sessions between scheduled refreshers.
Sources: HMRC guidance
Yes. Targeted training can address an identified knowledge gap or inconsistent application of procedures. Any necessary changes to the underlying controls should also be addressed.
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Our live training is not formally accredited. Supporting materials, attendance and assessment records are included. Attendance or completion confirmations can be included in the agreed scope.
The accreditation status of any selected partner e-learning course is considered separately.
Yes. We provide individual technical sessions and continuing mentoring for analysts, senior analysts and practitioners developing their AML experience. Sessions focus on agreed objectives, practical cases and feedback on your reasoning and decision records.
Tell us who needs training, the areas you want covered and any deadline. We will propose the content, format, assessment approach and fee.