KordaMentha Financial Crime Training Academy

Instructor-led learning

Our instructor-led learning program prioritises direct interaction between the faciliator and participants, fostering a dynamic and engaging learning experience. 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 courses are available on demand on our learning portal, and is flexible, cost-effective solution for delivering consistent and high-quality learning to geographically 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.

Clients can elect to participate in training which addresses topical issues determined by the industry expert-designed Academy syllabus, or alternatively, we can construct bespoke learning solutions targeted to meet your organisation's 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
   

The Academy can tailor training programs for different roles and seniorities, ensuring that your teams are best equipped wth the financial crime risk management skills and knowledge most relevant to their work. 

Board and senior management

With an unprecedented focus by Regulators on perceived vulnerability at the C-Suite level, the Academy can 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 of the operation of AML/CTF programs. Our Academy ensures that your compliance officer has the necessary training and resources to help your organisation meet its compliance obligations.

Other audiences we deliver training for include financial crime operations teams, risk, compliance and assurance, and general employee awareness. 
 

Our KordaMentha Financial Crime Talent Framework (Talent Framework) provides a structured approach to talent management, enabling clients to identify the skills and knowledge required for their own teams to perform at their best.

The Talent Framework benchmarks the skills and knowledge of individuals and teams via descriptive levels of proficiency and identifies opportunity for development to maximise employee and team potential. The Talent Framework can be aligned to the client’s organisational structure, and facilitates: 

• •    Capability benchmarking
• •    Targeted learning and development activities
• •    Performance expectations
• •    Career pathways
• •    Succession planning
• •    Continuous feedback and learning

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.