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Professional Certificate · Master's level · CPP-44
Anti-Money Laundering Compliance and Business Criminal Law
For: Compliance officers, lawyers and internal auditors of banks, payment institutions, decentralised financial systems and insurance companies.
Learning outcomes
- Design a compliance framework for anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism.
- Identify an institution's due diligence obligations and reporting to CENTIF.
- Assess the criminal exposure of a company and its executives.
Programme over 4 weeks
| Week | Content |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | Combating money laundering and the financing of terrorism and proliferation: uniform law adopted on 31 March 2023 and loi n°2024-08 du 14 février 2024 (Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist and Proliferation Financing Act). |
| Week 2 | Due diligence obligations and reporting to CENTIF; compliance risk mapping for an institution. |
| Week 3 | Business criminal law: offences provided for in the Uniform Acts, corruption, liability of executives. |
| Week 4 | Professional simulation: compliance risk map and due diligence procedure of a fictitious institution. |
Assessment
Marked professional simulation, assessed against a rubric (70%): compliance risk map and due diligence procedure of a fictitious institution; online knowledge-check quiz (30%). No private individual is implicated.
The certificate is awarded with a mark of at least 10 out of 20.
Optional: Professional Ethics for Lawyers
An additional 1-credit module over 2 weeks (CPP-44C), awarded as a separate certificate; together with this certificate, it makes up the full course component of the original programme.
- Professional secrecy, independence, conflicts of interest.
- Method for researching the rules specific to each profession; assessing a professional situation against ethical principles.
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
Legal training or experience in compliance, internal control or auditing, 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 Business Law, within a period set by the certificate regulations.