Role-Based AML/CFT/CPF for Boards, First Line and Compliance Teams Corporate Training
Learn role-based AML/CFT/CPF duties: board oversight, first-line controls, and compliance workflows, in live guided labs.
Edstellar, a corporate training company, delivers corporate training that helps your boards, first-line teams, and compliance staff learn their distinct AML/CFT/CPF responsibilities. Employees develop due diligence discipline, apply monitoring and reporting workflows, and build defensible risk controls through guided labs led by practitioners. Each session is tuned to your products, jurisdictions, and risk appetite.
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How we build an AML/CFT-ready team
The Edstellar AML/CFT Capability Model
Assess AML capability
Skill checks map your board, first line, and compliance teams' AML/CFT/CPF baseline.
Set shared standards
One shared playbook for due diligence, alert handling, and reporting workflows.
Practice in guided labs
Labs cover CDD, transaction monitoring, STR drafting, and sanctions screening.
Measure the lift
Lab reviews benchmark each employee's AML/CFT/CPF control execution.
Scale across the bank
One standard rolls out across branches, products, and business lines.
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Program Overview: What is Role-Based AML/CFT/CPF for Boards, First Line and Compliance Teams?
Role-Based AML/CFT/CPF for Boards, First Line & Compliance Teams is Edstellar's instructor-led program for directors, first-line business teams, and compliance professionals in financial institutions. Participants build AML/CFT/CPF foundations, study board oversight and governance, and master customer due diligence, transaction monitoring, and suspicious transaction reporting. Topics include sanctions screening and first-line controls.
The 28 hours run as role-based guided labs. Boards practice oversight scenarios, first-line teams triage transaction monitoring alerts, and compliance teams draft suspicious transaction reports and screen sanctions cases. Instructors coach each role through its workflows, reviewing every decision with direct feedback. The program closes with an enterprise review capstone, where the team defends its end-to-end AML/CFT/CPF controls.
Financial crime controls often fail at handoffs: boards miss red flags, alerts overwhelm the first line, and suspicious transactions go unreported. This program teaches each role its part: directors who oversee credibly, first-line teams who escalate sharply, and compliance teams who file decisively. Your controls become an integrated defense.
The capstone is an enterprise review where the team defends its full control framework: governance, due diligence, monitoring, reporting, and sanctions screening. Participants return with role-specific playbooks and the assurance practices to keep their institution ahead of regulatory scrutiny.
Eight modules and 28 hours: foundations, board oversight, due diligence, monitoring, STR filing, sanctions screening, first-line controls, and a capstone review. Every module pairs concepts with a guided lab, so each workflow is practiced.
Delivery is hybrid across virtual and onsite sessions, scheduled around your calendar. Cohorts train as one group or split into batches, with session materials and lab guides included for every participant.
What's Included in this Workshop for Your Enterprise Teams
- 1
Regulatory norms walkthrough
FATF, typologies, and expectations.
- 2
Board oversight drills
Governance duties, risk appetite, reporting.
- 3
Due diligence labs
CDD, EDD, and screening workflows.
- 4
Alert triage practice
Monitoring alerts and STR drafting.
- 5
Capstone review
Defend an enterprise financial-crime review.
- Instructor-led delivery across virtual, onsite, and hybrid
- Guided labs in every module with instructor coaching
- Capstone enterprise review, defended with your team
- Flexible scheduling around your calendar
- Lab guides and casework templates included
- Group size and batches set along with you
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Role-Based AML/CFT/CPF for Boards, First Line and Compliance Teams Course Topics and Program Outline
A tailored 28-hour, eight-module workshop: one learning journey from AML/CFT/CPF foundations to a capstone enterprise review. Sessions pair concepts with labs on real-world use cases. Materials include lab guides and templates, plus a capstone assessment.
Built by Edstellar with financial-crime practitioners
Built by practitioners who run AML/CFT/CPF programs in production, shaped around your products and use cases.
Skill checks baseline your team's AML/CFT/CPF knowledge, first-line controls, and governance readiness before training begins.
Live instruction covers the global regulatory landscape, typologies, and board oversight duties across 5 focused hours.
Guided labs build CDD, alert triage, STR drafting, and sanctions screening skill across 14 hours of supervised practice.
Your team tests first-line controls, then defends a capstone enterprise review across 9 hours of applied work.
From regulatory foundations to a capstone enterprise review, every workflow is practiced in guided labs.
Delivered as
Delivered as a hybrid program of live instruction and guided labs, scheduled around your team's calendar in flexible batches.
Walk through the global regulatory map and anchor your institution's products and jurisdictions within it, in a guided briefing exercise.
learna)The AML/CFT/CPF lifecycle: placement, layering, integration
b)FATF 40 recommendations and the risk-based approach
c)Typologies across retail, corporate, and trade finance
d)How regulators assess board oversight and culture
Score a sample board MI pack and draft the challenge questions a diligent board should ask management.
learna)Director duties: risk appetite and oversight
b)The MLRO mandate: independence and resourcing
c)Reading AML management information and metrics
d)Regulatory expectations and personal liability
Work CDD and EDD cases end to end: verify identity documents, map beneficial ownership, and document the risk decision.
practicea)CDD components: identification and verification
b)Beneficial ownership and control structures
c)EDD triggers and source-of-wealth checks
d)PEP identification and senior approval workflows
e)Ongoing monitoring and periodic review cycles
Triage a realistic alert queue: disposition alerts, tune a scenario threshold, and write the audit-ready rationale.
practicea)Monitoring rules, scenarios, and thresholds
b)Alert triage and dispositioning workflows
c)False-positive analysis and rule tuning
d)Documenting rationale for audit and examination
e)Case escalation to investigations
Draft filed-quality STR narratives from investigated cases and review them against FIU quality markers.
practicea)Suspicion thresholds and the decision to report
b)STR narrative structure and quality markers
c)FIU reporting channels and timelines
d)Tipping-off prohibitions and information sharing
Disposition screening hits against live lists, distinguishing true hits from false positives under instructor review.
practicea)OFAC, UN, and EU sanctions regimes
b)List management and screening workflows
c)Hit dispositioning: true hits vs false positives
d)Proliferation financing red flags and duties
Build a QA sampling plan for CDD files and test a set of controls against examination standards.
applya)First-line ownership and the three lines model
b)Control design and QA sampling plans
c)Testing due diligence and monitoring controls
d)Audit findings, remediation, and tracking
Run the full enterprise review: scope, test controls, write findings, and defend your conclusions before the instructor panel.
applya)Scoping the enterprise review and risk assessment
b)Testing governance, CDD, and monitoring controls
c)Reviewing STR quality and sanctions screening
d)Writing findings and remediation plans
e)Presenting and defending to the review panel
Customize this program tailored to your team?
Tell us your training needs: what your team already works with, the level they’re at, and the topics you want them to focus on. We’ll adjust the modules, duration and hands-on labs, and send you a customized outline for your group.
Key Skills and Outcomes Your Team Will Gain
Seven job-ready outcomes your team will demonstrate by the end of the program. Each competency is practiced in guided labs and reviewed in the capstone enterprise review.
Read the AML regulatory map
Interpret FATF recommendations, the risk-based approach, and typologies across retail, corporate, and trade finance.
Exercise board oversight
Set risk appetite, challenge the MLRO, and read AML management information the way an examiner expects.
Run CDD and EDD workflows
Verify identity, map beneficial ownership, and apply enhanced due diligence to PEP and high-risk cases.
Triage monitoring alerts
Disposition transaction-monitoring alerts, tune rules, and document rationale that withstands audit.
Draft filed-quality STRs
Decide the suspicion threshold, write FIU-ready narratives, and respect tipping-off prohibitions.
Screen sanctions lists
Disposition sanctions and proliferation-financing hits, separating true hits from false positives.
Test first-line controls
Design QA sampling plans and test AML/CFT/CPF controls against examination standards.
Teams that Benefit from this Role-Based AML/CFT/CPF for Boards, First Line and Compliance Teams Group Training
This group training is built for boards, first-line staff, and compliance teams managing financial-crime risk across banking, insurance, and financial services. Content adapts to each cohort's roles, products, and experience, so every batch practices the workflows it owns.
Set risk appetite and challenge AML reporting with confidence.
Directors learn to set AML/CFT/CPF risk appetite, interrogate management information, and evidence the oversight regulators expect from the board.
Workflow friction
- Dense board packs with unreadable metrics
- Unclear personal liability for directors
- Weak challenge of the MLRO and management
How the program helps
- Risk appetite set with examiner-grade rigor
- Board packs read with challenge questions
- Oversight evidenced for examination
Practice use cases
- Board MI drills
- Risk appetite labs
- Governance reviews
- MLRO challenge prep
Own CDD and monitoring controls at the point of business.
Front-office and operations staff practice the controls they own: customer onboarding checks, alert handling, and escalation discipline.
Workflow friction
- CDD files that fail QA sampling
- Alert backlogs and rushed dispositioning
- Escalation delays to investigations
How the program helps
- Cleaner onboarding and CDD files
- Faster, better-documented alert triage
- Escalations that reach compliance on time
Practice use cases
- CDD case labs
- Alert triage drills
- Escalation simulations
Run defensible STR, screening, and QA workflows.
Compliance teams sharpen investigation quality, STR narratives, sanctions hit dispositioning, and the QA programs that prove control effectiveness.
Workflow friction
- Inconsistent STR narrative quality
- Screening hit backlogs and false positives
- QA findings that repeat year to year
How the program helps
- Filed-quality STR narratives, faster
- Sanctions hits dispositioned accurately
- QA programs that prove effectiveness
Practice use cases
- STR drafting labs
- Screening hit drills
- QA sampling labs
Test AML controls the way examiners will.
Audit teams practice risk-based testing of the AML/CFT/CPF program: sampling, control design assessment, and findings that drive remediation.
Workflow friction
- Sampling plans that miss high risk
- Findings written without root causes
- Remediation tracked on spreadsheets
How the program helps
- Risk-based audit test plans
- Control findings that drive fixes
- Remediation tracked to closure
Practice use cases
- Control testing labs
- Findings workshops
- Remediation reviews
Cohorts train as a cross-functional workforce, with each small group aligned on shared AML/CFT/CPF standards.
Prerequisites: This program benefits board members, first-line staff, compliance analysts, and internal auditors involved in financial-crime controls. Familiarity with your institution's products helps but is not required, and no prior regulatory experience is needed. Content adapts to each cohort's jurisdictions, tools, and experience level.
Analyst to Financial-Crime Control Owner
Tracks how team members progress from basic AML/CFT/CPF awareness to advanced control ownership across the program's learn, practice, and apply phases.
One program that grows with financial-crime careers, from first CDD file to confident enterprise-level review.
Mixed cohort, or several teams at once?
We can tailor the training to different teams, roles, and experience levels within the same program.
Certificate of Training Completion.
On successful completion, employees receive an Edstellar course completion certificate, recognizing their commitment to ongoing learning and professional development. It validates the skills they have built and motivates them to keep growing and contribute to organizational success.
Earned, not attended. Awarded on completion of all hands-on labs and the capstone project.
Training Delivery Modes: Virtual, Onsite and Hybrid
Sessions run hybrid by default, mixing live virtual and onsite delivery so boards, branches, and compliance hubs train together. Recordings and lab guides are shared on your LMS so teams can revisit each module after the live sessions.
Hybrid Training
Instructor-led sessions mix onsite and virtual delivery with guided labs throughout. Boards, first-line teams, and compliance staff work cases together while the instructor coaches and reviews. Hybrid keeps scheduling flexible.
- Live instruction across onsite and virtual sessions
- Guided labs with instructor coaching and reviews
- Role-specific AML/CFT/CPF cases throughout
- Flexible scheduling without losing live interaction
Onsite Training
Instructor-led training at your offices, with labs set up on your network and tooling. The instructor works cases in person, reviews documentation together, and tunes exercises to your products.
- Instructor-led training at your offices
- Labs set up on your network and tooling
- In-person case reviews and coaching
- Exercises tuned to your products and jurisdictions
Live Virtual Training
Live virtual sessions on Zoom or Teams, with breakout rooms for role-specific casework and screen-shared lab walkthroughs. Instructors coach alert triage and STR drafting live, and every session is recorded for your LMS.
- Live instructor-led sessions on Zoom or Teams
- Breakout rooms for role-specific casework
- Live coaching on triage and STR drafting
- Session recordings shared on your LMS
Need a training format that works for your team?
Full days, half days across weeks, or split by module. Tell us the delivery window and we schedule the cohort around it.
Frequently Asked Questions
Share your team size, timelines, and delivery preference, and we will send a detailed per-group quote with batch options.
Yes. Book a discovery call to walk through your risk profile, jurisdictions, and goals, and we will shape a tailored training plan.
Yes. The program runs live virtual on Zoom or Teams, with breakout casework, instructor coaching, and recordings on your LMS.
Yes. Onsite delivery sets labs up on your network and tooling, with in-person case reviews tuned to your products and jurisdictions.
The program runs 28 hours across eight modules, scheduled in flexible batches around your team's calendar.
Question not answered here?
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Where this Training Fits in Your Team's learning path.
Role-based AML training follows the basics so each group knows what is expected of them specifically. After general financial crime knowledge, this course covers boards, first line and compliance teams separately, then the path deepens KYC and ends with transaction monitoring.
Why Choose Edstellar as Your Role-Based AML/CFT/CPF for Boards, First Line and Compliance Teams Corporate Training Provider
When comparing providers, Edstellar is the training partner teams choose for financial-crime expertise and 5+ years of training experience. Our methodology blends concise instruction with guided labs, and we share each trainer profile before booking. The result is measurable quality in the controls your team runs.
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Tailored
Every cohort's cases, jurisdictions, and exercises are tuned to your products, risk appetite, and regulatory environment.
Proven Methodology
Concise instruction followed by guided labs and reviews, a repeatable method that turns regulations into practiced controls.
Practice-Based Learning
Eight modules of guided labs and a capstone review keep your team working cases, not just listening.
Expert Trainers
Practitioners who run AML/CFT/CPF programs in production lead every session and review your team's casework.
Global Scale
One consistent program delivered across your offices worldwide, in 10+ languages.
Measurable Outcomes
Lab checkpoints and a capstone review prove skill gains you can report internally.
Connect Financial Crime Responsibilities Across Governance, Frontline Controls, and Assurance
Edstellar connects financial-crime controls with the different responsibilities of boards, frontline teams, compliance, and audit. Role-specific exercises cover oversight, diligence, monitoring, reporting, and sanctions before an enterprise review. Feedback examines whether decisions are supported by evidence, ownership is clear, and control conclusions remain within each role's remit.
- Step 01
Consult
We identify participants' board, first-line, compliance, or audit responsibilities and examine gaps in customer diligence, escalation, and financial-crime oversight.
- Step 02
Plan
Foundations branch into governance, due diligence, monitoring, reporting, sanctions, and control assurance before a combined enterprise financial-crime review.
- Step 03
Align
Financial-crime facilitation reflects each role's decision rights, helping board members challenge information while analysts and auditors practice appropriate operational controls.
- Step 04
Customize
Fictional customer files, monitoring alerts, and board information packs represent relevant risks without using identifiable customers or confidential investigation records.
- Step 05
Execute
Participants challenge board reports, test diligence controls, and scope QA samples, receiving feedback on risk reasoning, escalation boundaries, and evidence quality.
- Step 06
Evaluate
The enterprise review is assessed for proportionate testing, supported findings, clear accountability, and conclusions that distinguish control weaknesses from unverified suspicions.
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Role-Based AML/CFT/CPF for Boards, First Line & Compliance Teams Training Packages & Pricing
Where L&D holds an annual budget, license packages price the whole year at once instead of raising a purchase order per workshop. Hours and licenses are pooled across teams, programs and locations, so unused capacity is not stranded in one department.
Starter
120
trainee licenses64 hours of group training
Tailored for SMBs
Growth
320
trainee licenses160 hours of group training
Ideal for growing SMBs
Enterprise
800
trainee licenses400 hours of group training
Designed for large corporations
Custom
Unlimited
trainee licensesDuration set by the rollout
Multi-region and multi-year
Training Packages & Pricing
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