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Course Overview
This leadership programme has been designed to sharpen the strategic skills of senior practitioners and those aspiring to hold the highest anti money laundering/financial crime prevention position within a firm.
This expert-level qualification offers:
- Specialist knowledge – the highest level in the field
- Strategic thinking – helps your leadership ambitions
- Innovation – explores new ideas, best practice, and future developments from a global perspective
- Fellowship of ICA – become automatically eligible for the highest grade of membership
- Networking – grow with other like-minded, senior professionals.
With a focus on anti-money laundering, managing fraud and anti-bribery, and corruption, this qualification has helped hundreds of senior financial crime compliance professionals from all over the world unlock career growth opportunities.
This qualification is awarded in association with Alliance Manchester Business School, the University of Manchester.
Course Content
The syllabus covers a variety of key issues relevant at a senior level and is designed to provide an insight into the risks and potential hurdles faced by your organisation. The syllabus is delivered by an exclusive series of high-profile masterclasses covering relevant topics.
- Standards, research and assessment
- Financial crime risks: science or art?
- Ethics, corporate governance and responsibility
- Managing the internal AML enemy
- Cyber security: threats to the organisation
- FinTech and financial crime compliance
- Fraud and internal threat
- Risk based approach: too busy or too afraid
- Sanctions: a changing landscape
This course is delivered over 12 months with materials delivered online for you to study in your own time and at your own pace including:
- Eight 3-hour live, virtual masterclasses over four weekends.
- Eight group tutorials that give the opportunity to reflect, interpret and apply the knowledge from the masterclasses
- (Optional) Five live, virtual classrooms spread over the duration of the course, designed to support the networking element of the course as well as focus on the latest global developments.
This is an executive-level programme suitable for:
- Heads of Compliance, AML, Financial Crime Prevention and Risk
- Compliance, AML and Financial Crime Managers
- Senior internal and External Audit roles
- Company Secretaries
- Legal Practitioners
- Regulatory Representatives and FIU staff
- Law enforcement
- Company Directors/Board Members
The next course dates are as follows:
Next enrolment by: 2 February 2026.
The full course timetable can be found here.
Benefits
These expert-level qualifications are designed to sharpen the strategic skills of senior professionals or those aspiring to be Heads of Compliance/AML/Financial Crime Prevention.
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The International Compliance Association (ICA)
The International Compliance Association (ICA) is the leading professional body for the global regulatory and financial crime compliance community. It is also the provider of internationally recognised, professional, certificated qualifications in anti-money laundering; governance, risk and compliance and financial crime prevention. Being a member of the ICA, a global community, is a mark of prestige and shows that you have reached a standard of excellence in your professional career.
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