KordaMentha Financial Crime Academy
Manage financial crime risks with confidence and clarity
In today’s fast-evolving financial crime environment, staying ahead requires more than just compliance, it demands continuous learning and strategic capability development. The KordaMentha Financial Crime Academy is designed to help organisations build team capability, meet regulatory obligations and protect their communities.
Our training is engaging, interactive, and grounded in real-world application. We combine expert-led instruction with case studies, scenario-based exercises, and best practice examples to ensure participants gain relevant, actionable skills that translate directly to their roles.
As AML reforms reshape the regulatory landscape, our Academy is committed to supporting reporting entities in understanding and adapting to new obligations. We provide targeted training for AML compliance officers of Tranche 2 entities, including lawyers, accountants, real estate professionals, equipping them with the knowledge and tools needed to manage evolving risks, meet regulatory expectations, and lead their organisations through change.
Whether you’re building foundational knowledge or advancing strategic oversight, our Academy is your partner in creating a culture of compliance.
What we offer
Our flexible, scalable and industry-recognised solution delivers training programs for clients across various industries.
From instructor-led, role-based training to AML compliance officer and senior management training, our programs cover critical topics such as money laundering, terrorism financing, sanctions, customer due diligence, and reporting obligations.
Each module is designed to be practical and immersive, helping teams navigate complex challenges with confidence.
Instructor-led learning and self-paced eLearning courses
Instructor-led learning
Our instructor-led sessions are interactive, practical and led by experts who understand your world. Education content and workshops can be delivered by our expert facilitators in a traditional classroom setting or through virtual platforms.
Self-paced eLearning
Our self-paced eLearning is flexible, cost-effective and accessible, making it ideal for dispersed teams.
We recognise the importance of ensuring that participants of the Academy can access learning materials anytime, anywhere using various devices such as smartphones and computers.
For clients that prefer seamless delivery of their organisation’s training programs, our eLearning modules can also be hosted on their learning management systems.
Structured syllabus content and bespoke programs
Choose from expert-designed courses or let us tailor a program to your needs.
We have worked closely with organisations and services across various industries and have proven experience designing and delivering industry specific learning solutions, tailored to audiences such as banking, finance, superannuation, remittance, gaming and online wagering, real estate, lawyers and accountants.
The Academy covers a wide range of topics essential to financial crime risk management and compliance obligations across multiple industries, but not limited to:
- AML compliance officer obligations
- AML/CTF Act & Rules
- anti-bribery and corruption
- child exploitation material
- customer due diligence
- cybersecurity
- fraud
- human trafficking
- illegal wildlife trafficking
- money laundering
- reporting obligations
- risk assessments
- sanctions
- terrorism financing.
Role-based learning solutions
We tailor training by role and seniority, so your people get what they need when they need it.
Board and senior management
With an unprecedented focus by Regulators on perceived vulnerability at the C-Suite level, the Academy deliver regular AML/CTF Board and Senior Management awareness sessions that ensures executives understand their obligations, and insights to overseeing their organisation’s AML/CTF program.
AML/CTF compliance officer
AML/CTF compliance officers are expected to have overall responsibility for the operation of AML/CTF programs. We equip compliance officers with the tools and knowledge to lead with confidence.
Other audiences we deliver training for include financial crime operations teams, risk, compliance and assurance, and general employee awareness.
Financial crime talent framework
Our KordaMentha Financial Crime Talent Framework (Talent Framework) helps organisations benchmark skills, identify capability gaps, and implement targeted development strategies. This supports performance management, career progression, and succession planning.
The Talent Framework can be aligned to your organisational structure, and facilitates:
- capability benchmarking
- career pathways
- continuous feedback and learning
- performance expectations
- succession planning
- targeted learning and development activities
International Compliance Association recognised qualifications
KordaMentha proudly partners with the International Compliance Association (ICA), in conjunction with the University of Manchester (UK) Business School to provide formal qualifications across a number of financial crime disciplines. Qualifications range from entry level to expert, with members of our team being accredited ICA training specialists.
The Academy course content is tailored to align with Australian regulations and market, and includes region specific case studies.
Our additional expertise as ICA accredited specialists illustrates the breadth of our capability.
