Trade-Based Money Laundering Corporate Training
Give your trade teams the power to detect money laundering hiding in global trade flows
Give your enterprise teams the trade finance crime skills that keep dirty money out of legitimate trade. Edstellar's Trade-Based Money Laundering corporate training helps your employees Learn TBML typologies, Develop detection techniques, and Build defensible investigation files. A corporate training company with 5+ years delivering financial crime programs, Edstellar tailors every session to your products, roles, and risk exposure.
Instructor-led group trainingVirtual / on-site / off-site10 languagesDelivered inEnglish, Spanish, Mandarin, German, Arabic, Portuguese, Hindi, French, Japanese, Italian100+ countriesWe have delivered inUnited States, United Kingdom, India, Canada, Germany, France, Netherlands, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Australia, Japan, Brazil, South Africa and 90+ more countries
How we build a TBML-resilient team
The Edstellar TBML Capability Model
Diagnose
We map your trade finance footprint: products, corridors, and customers, then benchmark your TBML controls.
Standardize
Your team learns one defensible standard for TBML red flags, document checks, and escalation.
Practice
Guided labs drill typology detection, screening, and STR drafting on realistic trade scenarios.
Measure
Lab outputs and the capstone TBML review show exactly which skills each cohort has gained.
Scale
Repeatable materials and team reporting let you roll the program out across desks and regions.
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Program Overview: What is Trade-Based Money Laundering?
Trade-Based Money Laundering is Edstellar's instructor-led program for financial crime, trade operations, and compliance teams fighting TBML. Participants learn trade mechanics and documentary instruments, the typologies criminals use, and the red-flag signs that reveal them. The curriculum covers trade monitoring and screening, counterparty due diligence, and suspicious transaction report filing.
Training is case-driven from the first module. Participants dissect real TBML typologies, trace mis-invoicing and phantom shipments through trade documents, and practice flagging anomalies in guided labs. Instructors coach your team through screening engines, counterparty due diligence, and the judgment calls behind STR filing, reviewing every case with direct feedback. The program closes with a capstone where the team conducts a full TBML program review.
Billions move through trade with prices nobody questions and goods that never shipped. Teams screen names while the real laundering hides in unit prices, shipment routes, and shell counterparties. This program teaches your people to read trade the way launderers do, so the red flags surface before the money disappears.
The capstone hands each team a simulated TBML portfolio: trade files with embedded typologies, screening alerts to disposition, counterparties to investigate, and STR decisions to write up. Teams present their program review the way they would to a regulator, typologies mapped, controls scored, gaps owned. Participants keep the case set as a training asset for their own financial crime teams.
The program moves from trade finance foundations to advanced detection: letters of credit, invoicing schemes, and phantom shipping become guided lab exercises. Your team practices on realistic trade documents and transaction data, building pattern recognition your supervisors can rely on. Every module closes with a lab, and the program closes with a capstone TBML review. Participants leave with templates, checklists, and investigation habits they can apply immediately.
What's Included in this Workshop for Your Enterprise Teams
- 1
Six guided trade modules
Foundations to capstone in 24 instructor-led hours.
- 2
Hands-on lab sessions
Document checks, typology drills, and STR drafting.
- 3
Capstone TBML program review
Your team reviews a full trade book and defends a findings memo.
- 4
TBML checklists and templates
Takeaway documents your team can use immediately.
- 5
Instructor review
Every lab output and the capstone memo get written feedback.
- 6
Skills reporting
Cohort-level reporting on skill gains from assessment to capstone.
- Hybrid, onsite, or live virtual delivery
- 24 instructor-led hours, scheduled flexibly
- Cohorts of 8 to 25 participants
- Sessions across your time zones
- Take-home documents in a shared digital library
- Post-program support for follow-up questions
Build your team's skills. Anywhere in the world.
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Trade-Based Money Laundering Course Topics and Program Outline
This six-module, 24-hour program is a tailored Workshop built around hands-on practice. Each Session moves from trade finance foundations to advanced detection: real-world use cases become guided labs, and the topics covered in each Module are tested in a Workbook of practice exercises. The Learning Path closes with an Assessment through the capstone TBML program review.
Built by Edstellar with TBML specialists
Built by practitioners who investigate TBML in production, shaped around your trade book and corridors.
We profile your team's trade finance exposure by product, corridor, and customer type, then align labs to the highest-risk touchpoints.
Teams study trade finance instruments, TBML typologies, and red-flag indicators, plus the supervisory trends shaping examinations.
Guided labs drill document examination, typology detection, and monitoring on scenarios drawn from real trade patterns.
The capstone simulates a TBML program review, producing findings and remediation plans the team can take straight into work.
Built for 24 hours of hands-on practice: every concept is drilled in labs and a full capstone TBML program review.
Delivered as
The program runs hybrid by default: core sessions onsite with live virtual labs, or fully remote over Zoom or Teams. Every format covers the same 24 hours, labs, and capstone.
Map each trade instrument to the TBML stage a criminal could exploit through it.
learna)Why trade finance attracts money laundering
b)Letters of credit, collections, open account
c)Guarantees and standby instruments
d)Placement, layering, and integration in trade
Examine a sample LC document set and flag the examination points a checker must never miss.
learna)LC mechanics and UCP rules
b)Documentary collections workflow
c)Bank guarantees and standby LCs
d)Bills of lading and shipping documents
e)Document examination basics
Work a set of red-flagged trade files and score each against the FATF TBML indicator list.
practicea)Over- and under-invoicing
b)Multiple and duplicate invoicing
c)Phantom shipping and short shipping
d)Misclassification of goods
e)Carousel and circular trading
f)Shell companies and front businesses
g)Illogical trade routes and related parties
Tune a screening queue on sample trade data, then adjudicate alerts and document each call.
practicea)Transaction monitoring rules for trade
b)Sanctions and PEP screening in trade flows
c)Dual-use goods and export controls
d)End-user verification
e)Alert triage and false-positive reduction
Build a due-diligence file for a suspect trading partner and draft a complete STR narrative.
applya)Risk-based due diligence on trade counterparties
b)Beneficial ownership in trading structures
c)Correspondent banking controls
d)TBML investigation workflow
e)STR drafting for TBML cases
Run the full review on a simulated trade book and present your findings memo to the instructor.
applya)Scoping a TBML program review
b)Testing controls across a trade book
c)Red-flag sampling exercises
d)Findings memo and remediation roadmap
e)Instructor review and defense
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 capabilities your team practices in guided labs and proves in the capstone TBML program review.
Detect TBML typologies in trade
Recognize over-invoicing, phantom shipping, and other schemes hiding in trade flows.
Read trade documents well
Examine letters of credit, invoices, and bills of lading for discrepancies and red flags.
Screen trades for sanctions
Run sanctions and PEP screening on trade counterparties and vessels, and adjudicate alerts defensibly.
Run counterparty due diligence
Verify trading partners and beneficial owners to a risk-based standard, including complex ownership structures.
Monitor trade transaction flow
Tune monitoring rules for trade and triage alerts without drowning in false positives.
Draft STRs that hold up
Write suspicious transaction narratives for TBML cases that regulators and law enforcement can act on.
Lead a TBML program check
Scope and run a full TBML control review that stands up to audit and inspection.
Teams that Benefit from this Trade-Based Money Laundering Group Training
Financial crime, trade finance, trade operations, and correspondent banking teams that touch trade transactions benefit most. Content adapts to role and experience, so each cohort practices the workflows it owns, from document checking to program-level oversight.
Own a TBML program that survives scrutiny
For teams that own trade-based money laundering controls end to end and must prove they work to auditors and regulators.
Workflow friction
- Seeing TBML in high trade volumes
- Keeping due diligence current
- Proving controls detect, not just run
How the program helps
- Map TBML controls to FATF red flags
- Test monitoring rules against typologies
- Document decisions auditors will probe
Practice use cases
- Typology detection labs
- Monitoring tuning drills
- Control testing exercises
Structure trades that resist abuse
For trade finance teams that structure letters of credit, collections, and guarantees and must keep them clean.
Workflow friction
- Balancing deal flow with controls
- Reading documents under time pressure
- Handling pressure from clients
How the program helps
- Spot misuse in LC structures
- Price-check against market norms
- Escalate suspicious requests early
Practice use cases
- Document review labs
- LC structuring exercises
- Escalation scenario drills
Catch discrepancies before release
For operations teams that process trade documents daily and stand between suspicious trades and payment.
Workflow friction
- Volume pressure on document checks
- Inconsistent discrepancy standards
- Handoffs that lose red flags
How the program helps
- Examine documents with a TBML lens
- Flag discrepancies consistently
- Route alerts to the right team
Practice use cases
- Document checking labs
- Discrepancy flagging drills
- Handoff workflow practice
Manage downstream TBML exposure
For correspondent banking teams that process trade flows for respondent banks and carry their risk.
Workflow friction
- Limited visibility into end clients
- Varying respondent control maturity
- De-risking without losing business
How the program helps
- Assess respondent bank controls
- Monitor nested trade activity
- Apply risk-based de-risking fairly
Practice use cases
- Respondent assessment labs
- Nested activity drills
- Risk rating exercises
Each department track works the same six modules, with labs weighted to the trade workflows that team owns.
Prerequisites: Financial crime, trade finance, operations, and correspondent banking professionals benefit most, as do managers who approve trade transactions. Basic familiarity with trade finance helps but is not required: the program builds from foundations up. No prior investigation experience is needed. Sessions adapt to each cohort's products, corridors, and control maturity.
Trade Operations Analyst to Financial Crime Lead
Skills build from trade finance literacy through typology detection and monitoring to investigation leadership.
One program that grows with financial-crime careers, from trade finance literacy to running a TBML program that survives audit.
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
Choose the format that fits your team: every mode runs the full 24-hour program with all guided labs and the capstone TBML review, scheduled flexibly across your time zones.
Hybrid Training
Mix onsite sessions with live virtual training so distributed teams learn together without travel for every module. Document examination and the capstone review run best with a shared in-person block plus remote labs.
- Onsite core sessions plus remote labs
- One instructor across both formats
- Capstone run as a joint session
- Consistent materials and library access
Onsite Training
An instructor delivers the full program at your office, running every lab and the capstone TBML review with your team in one room.
- Instructor at your office
- All labs run in person
- Capstone as a team exercise
- Scheduling matched to your calendar
Live Virtual Training
Live virtual training over Zoom or Teams with breakout labs and an e-learning platform for materials, trade document sets, and the capstone review file set.
- Live instructor, real-time labs
- Breakouts for team exercises
- Materials on an e-learning platform
- Works across time zones
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 team size, locations, and trade corridors through the form above. We reply within one business day with a scoped quote and schedule options for your cohort.
Yes. A short discovery call maps your trade products, corridors, and current TBML controls so we can tailor the program before you commit.
Yes. Live virtual training runs over Zoom or Teams with breakout labs, the same 24-hour curriculum, and platform access for all materials.
Yes. An instructor delivers the full program at your office, running every guided lab and the capstone TBML review with your team.
24 hours of instructor-led training across six modules, typically run as three 8-hour days or six half-day sessions.
Question not answered here?
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Where this Training Fits in Your Team's learning path.
Trade-based money laundering is hard to spot without knowing how trade finance works. Your team learns financial crime basics, then trade finance and documentary credits, then detects trade-based laundering in this course, and finally screens trade for sanctions risk.
Why Choose Edstellar as Your Trade-Based Money Laundering Training Provider
When comparing providers, teams choose Edstellar for Quality delivery and a true training partner approach: practitioner instructors, labs built on realistic trade scenarios, and reporting that shows skill gains per cohort.
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Tailored
We align every module to your trade products, corridors, and customer types, so teams practice the exact workflows they own.
Proven Methodology
The program follows the Diagnose, Standardize, Practice, Measure, Scale arc, building skills from trade literacy to the capstone.
Practice-Based Learning
Every module runs guided labs: document examination, typology detection, and STR drafting on realistic trade scenarios.
Expert Trainers
Financial-crime practitioners who have investigated TBML lead every session, with profiles confirmed before booking.
Global Scale
Hybrid and live virtual delivery trains distributed teams on one curriculum, in your time zones, with consistent materials.
Measurable Outcomes
Skills Matrix reporting tracks each cohort from assessment to capstone, showing skill gains per learner and per team.
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Talent assessments
Psychometric, behavioral, leadership and 360-degree assessment.
→Training needs analysis
Needs analysis, gap identification, and a training roadmap.
→L&D consulting
Learning strategy, content, technology and ROI measurement.
→OD consulting
Org design, succession planning and cultural change.
→Managed training services
Training outsourcing, vendor management, logistics and administration.
→Coaching solutions
Executive and manager coaching that keeps skills in use.
Start an RFP shaped to your needs.
Answer three quick questions about team size, scope, and how often you need the program run, then send the request from the last step. Everything you choose travels with it, so you only fill this in once.
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Trade-Based Money Laundering 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
Choose the training format that works for your team. Pricing is customized based on your requirements, cohort size, and delivery needs.
Request Trade-Based Money Laundering Training for Your Team
Tell us about your team size, trade products, and TBML goals. We will scope the 24-hour program to your risk profile and confirm your instructor.