Build practical AML, CFT and financial-crime capability through live online training.
Learn how professionals approach customer due diligence, beneficial ownership, enhanced due diligence, transaction monitoring, alert investigation, suspicious activity escalation, typologies and AML governance. Candidates who want an external credential can also prepare for the GCI AMLS – Anti-Money Laundering Specialist assessment through EduDelphi’s GCI partner route.
What does AML training teach?
Anti-money laundering (AML) is the work of identifying, assessing and managing financial-crime risk through proportionate customer controls, monitoring, investigation, escalation and governance. Countering the financing of terrorism (CFT) is closely connected, but operational and legal requirements differ by institution and jurisdiction.
| Delivery | Live online teaching, recordings and structured self-paced revision |
|---|---|
| Guided learning | 36+ hours covering CDD, EDD, monitoring, typologies, suspicious activity and governance |
| Study support | AI-supported LMS, notes, mindmaps, templates, original questions, mocks and practical cases |
| Official route | Optional GCI AMLS – Anti-Money Laundering Specialist preparation |
| Best for | AML analysts, compliance professionals, onboarding teams, payments, fintech, audit, risk and financial-crime teams |
| Learning language | English |
Use live AML instruction, practical resources and guided revision.
The course combines structured teaching with the exercises, templates and case debriefs that make AML controls easier to apply at work.
36+ guided hours
Live teaching that connects standards and policy concepts to file review, alert investigation, evidence and escalation.
Live classes and recordings
Attend scheduled sessions, then revisit difficult themes around work commitments and your study timeline.
500+ resources
Use notes, mindmaps, templates, original question practice, mock checkpoints and case-led revision.
AI-supported LMS
Organise resources, revision prompts and topic explainers around a clear, practical study path.
Operational templates
Work with customer-risk, alert-review, escalation, case-note, QA and management-information learning templates.
Mock and case debriefs
Practise explaining what an alert means, what evidence matters and why an escalation decision is proportionate.
GCI AMLS: official assessment facts and the accredited training relationship.
EduDelphi operates through Delphi Star Training Center, listed in the GCI training partners directory. GCI separately controls AMLS registration, official assessment, results and certificate issuance.
- Current primary GCI reference: 100 multiple-choice questions in 120 minutes.
- Current pass standard: 75/100.
- Delivery: online-proctored through the current GCI process.
- Languages: GCI currently lists English, Arabic, Turkish and French availability.
GCI’s current primary certificate page lists this 100-question, 120-minute format, while older GCI pages still show different question counts or timing. Confirm the live assessment format, availability, candidate terms and fees directly with GCI before registration.
GCI training partners directory
Review the official partner directory and AMLS qualification page before registration. Official availability, candidate terms and fees should always be confirmed with GCI before payment.
Make AML decisions through a clear, documented workflow.
The course shows how a financial-crime control environment connects customer understanding, risk rating, monitoring, alert investigation, escalation, reporting and quality assurance.
Build the AML analyst skills used in operational financial-crime roles.
AML analyst work is not simply a screening result. It requires a clear customer profile, relevant evidence, a proportionate risk view, a well-documented decision and timely escalation when the facts require it.
- Review customer files, documents, ownership and expected-activity context
- Assess customer risk factors and identify incomplete or contradictory evidence
- Triaging alerts without treating a red flag as proof of wrongdoing
- Write clear case notes that distinguish facts, assumptions and next steps
- Escalate potential concerns under the institution’s policy and reporting process
AML course curriculum: from financial-crime risk to practical cases.
The course develops broad applied AML capability and includes an optional GCI AMLS preparation route for candidates who choose the external assessment.
Module 1: Financial crime, AML/CFT and the risk-based approach
Module 2: AML risk assessment and control framework
Module 3: CDD, customer profile and beneficial ownership
Module 4: PEPs, enhanced due diligence and source-of-funds context
Module 5: Transaction monitoring, alerts and investigation notes
Module 6: Suspicious activity, escalation and reporting concepts
Module 7: AML typologies and high-risk activity
Module 8: Fintech, payments, virtual assets and digital risk
Module 9: AML governance, QA, MI and regulatory readiness
Module 10: Practical cases, mocks and optional GCI AMLS preparation
Understand how monitoring scenarios identify activity that needs review.
This section focuses on the monitoring-control layer rather than repeating individual alert investigation. Learn how scenarios, thresholds, segmentation, expected activity and quality feedback influence what reaches an analyst for review.
Monitoring scenarios are not a decision
Scenario design helps teams identify activity that may need review. It does not establish suspicion by itself. Learners compare simple monitoring concepts such as high-velocity payments, unusual cash activity, expected-activity mismatch and cross-border pattern changes, then discuss the data and governance needed for a proportionate control.
The course does not reproduce live examination questions, prescribe production thresholds or replace an institution’s approved transaction-monitoring methodology.
Understand correspondent-banking and geographic risk in AML.
Correspondent banking can involve multiple institutions, products, jurisdictions and payment flows. The course introduces the risk factors teams use to assess the relationship and explains why geography is one input to a broader risk assessment, not a shortcut to a conclusion.
Correspondent-banking awareness
Respondent-bank due diligence, nested or downstream relationships, ownership and governance, products, payment patterns, risk-rating factors and escalation context.
Country and geographic risk
Money-laundering, terrorism, sanctions, corruption and financial-secrecy indicators can inform a geographic-risk view. Teams should use current official sources and their approved methodology rather than treating a country label as a decision.
Use a proportionate, risk-based AML approach in a changing financial-crime environment.
The curriculum discusses current global AML themes at a practical level, including proportionality in risk-based controls, digital onboarding, virtual-asset risk, virtual-asset-service-provider implementation gaps and the need for evidence that supports the actual decision.
- Risk-based controls should be proportionate to the relevant customer and activity risk
- Digital identity and remote onboarding need governance, evidence and exception handling
- Virtual assets and VASPs create specific financial-crime control considerations, including Travel Rule, stablecoin, unhosted-wallet and DeFi risk awareness
- Policies, tools and lists support a decision; they do not replace professional judgement
Global standards are implemented through local laws, supervisory guidance and institutional policies. Confirm current requirements for the applicable jurisdiction.
AML case review: customer profile, alert, evidence and escalation.
A newly onboarded trading company begins receiving payments from counterparties that do not fit its stated activity. The ownership structure includes an intermediary entity, and the relationship manager provides an incomplete explanation.
1. Establish the facts
Review the stated activity, beneficial ownership, expected transactions and gaps in the initial customer file.
2. Test the evidence
Decide what information would clarify the activity, ownership, counterparties and source-of-funds context.
3. Make a defensible decision
Document the alert review, identify escalation triggers and explain why further review or action is proportionate.
Choose the AML study route that fits how you actually learn.
Independent learners can build AML knowledge through self-study. EduDelphi is for professionals who value live explanation, accountability, practical debriefs and a clear route through complex financial-crime topics.
| Self-study | EduDelphi live AML preparation |
|---|---|
| Set your own sequence and pace. | Follow a guided programme and planned revision rhythm. |
| Diagnose weak areas alone. | Use faculty discussion, case debriefs and structured support. |
| Find examples and tools independently. | Work with templates, practical activities and AML cases. |
| Best for highly disciplined learners with a clear plan. | Useful when work pressures make accountability and explanation valuable. |
GCI AMLS vs ACAMS AML Foundations vs CAMS vs ICA AML: which route fits?
These routes serve different levels, study formats and employer needs. Compare the primary emphasis and intended depth before deciding.
| Route | Main emphasis | Better fit when |
|---|---|---|
| GCI AMLS | AML/CFT, customer controls, transaction monitoring and financial-crime fundamentals | You want an external AML specialist route alongside live course support. |
| ACAMS AML Foundations | Introductory self-paced AML learning | You want a short foundational certificate route. |
| ICA Certificate in AML | Foundational AML knowledge | You want a structured introductory qualification route. |
| ICA Advanced Certificate in AML | Advanced AML capability | You want longer, deeper guided study. |
| CAMS | Established AML certification for experienced financial-crime professionals | If a target employer or job description explicitly asks for CAMS/ACAMS, follow that requirement. |
| EduDelphi live AML training | High-touch applied capability building | You prioritise instructor access, cases, templates and a flexible global schedule. |
AML faculty with finance, controls and financial-crime context.
Shyam Sarrof
Practice-led financial-crime sessions
A financial-crime practitioner supports case discussion around customer risk, evidence review, alert investigation, escalation, quality assurance and operational AML decision-making. Sessions are aligned to the organisation’s approved operating context.
Develop practical AML capability across your team.
EduDelphi can shape a private AML cohort around roles, baseline knowledge, financial-crime priorities, global time zones and approved practical scenarios. The external GCI route remains separate from your internal capability objectives.
1. Needs mapping
Identify learner roles, current capability, target outcomes and the AML-control context most relevant to the team.
2. Cohort design
Plan delivery rhythm, recordings where agreed, practical cases and a revision approach that supports working professionals.
3. Practice and visibility
Use alert-review cases, risk-rating logic, escalation practice and attendance or progress reporting where agreed for the cohort.
AML course and GCI AMLS FAQs.
What is AML training?
What is the difference between AML and CFT?
What is CDD in AML?
What is enhanced due diligence?
What is beneficial ownership in AML?
What is a PEP?
What does an AML analyst do?
What is transaction monitoring?
Do I need an AML certification?
What is GCI AMLS?
What is the GCI AMLS assessment format?
Are GCI fees included in EduDelphi tuition?
Can my company arrange AML training for a team?
Does this course provide legal advice?
Is AMLS the same as an AML medical course?
Get AML fees, syllabus and global batch options.
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AMLS – Anti-Money Laundering Specialist is a Global Compliance Institute qualification. EduDelphi provides anti-money-laundering training and optional GCI AMLS preparation through its partner route; GCI controls official qualification requirements, registration, assessment, results and certificate issuance.
