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Professional Certificate · Master's level · CPP-30
Banking Compliance and Anti-Money Laundering
For: Compliance officers, internal controllers, auditors and managers in banks, decentralised financial systems, insurance companies and financial market intermediaries.
Learning outcomes
- Position a financial activity within the banking and insurance regulatory frameworks of WAMU (UMOA) and CIMA.
- Apply the framework for combating money laundering and the financing of terrorism and proliferation (LBC/FT/FP): due diligence, suspicious transaction reporting, risk-based approach.
- Identify conflicts of interest and the legal and reputational risks of a financial activity.
Programme over 4 weeks
| Week | Content |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | Banking regulation: loi uniforme (uniform law) adopted by the WAMU Council of Ministers on 16 June 2023; loi n°2025-03 du 19 février 2025 (Banking Regulation Act); Commission bancaire de l'UMOA (WAMU Banking Commission); prudential standards to be studied from the texts published by the BCEAO. |
| Week 2 | LBC/FT/FP: WAMU loi uniforme adopted on 31 March 2023 and loi n°2024-08 du 14 février 2024 (Anti-Money Laundering, Counter-Terrorist Financing and Counter-Proliferation Financing Act); customer due diligence, suspicious transaction reporting to CENTIF, risk-based approach. |
| Week 3 | Insurance: Code des assurances des États membres de la CIMA (CIMA Insurance Code); compliance and ethics: conflicts of interest, customer protection, legal and reputational risks. |
| Week 4 | Professional simulation: compliance framework for a fictitious financial organisation, including an LBC/FT/FP component. |
Assessment
Marked professional simulation, assessed against a rubric (70%): compliance framework, including an LBC/FT/FP component, for a fictitious organisation; online knowledge-check quiz (30%). The customer cases are fictitious: no private individual is implicated.
The certificate is awarded with a mark of at least 10 out of 20.
Optional: Compliance, Inclusion and Detection Tools
An additional 1-credit module over 2 weeks (CPP-30C), awarded as a separate certificate; together with this certificate, it makes up the full course component of the original programme.
- Access to financial services for persons with disabilities; operational and cyber risks of financial activities.
- Contributions and limitations of data analysis and artificial intelligence in detecting fraud and unusual transactions.
At your own pace: the self-paced pathway
In a class, this certificate takes 4 weeks, on the cohort's dates. On the self-paced pathway, you start whenever you like, online, and progress at your own pace. The price is the same.
Estimate how long my pathway will take
- Duration
- about 4 weeks
- Estimated end
- 4 weeks after you start
- Examination
- Online, subject to available slots, no earlier than 4 weeks after you start
- Payment
- In a single payment
An indicative estimate, for a start today and 40 hours of work. You can change your pace along the way; the pathway must be completed within 12 weeks (about 3 months) of your start. Your e-Campus access opens with your first payment.
Admission
Experience in banking, finance or insurance assessed on application. Admission based on application; detailed requirements set by the school.
The credits you earn are recognised without further assessment if you later join the programme they come from, Professional Master's degree in Financial Engineering, within a period set by the certificate regulations.