Escalate everything and you bury the real signal. Clear everything and you are the laundromat's favourite teller.
A certification in applied AML and KYC judgment: 30 cases across onboarding, monitoring, sanctions and reporting — some genuinely suspicious, some innocent — scored on both kinds of error. Pass at 70%.
A judgment job wearing a compliance badge
Most AML training tests whether you can recite the rules. This certification tests whether you can apply them to cases that do not announce themselves — eighteen realistic situations across onboarding, transaction monitoring, sanctions screening and reporting, plus knowledge items keyed to FATF-style standards used in most jurisdictions.
Crucially, some of the cases are clean and some are not. That is what makes the Detection Grid possible: because the assessment contains both, it can measure both error types — missed suspicion and false alarms — and place you on a sensitivity-versus-discrimination grid that a flat percentage score simply cannot show.
It is the difference between knowing you scored 74% and knowing whether you are an over-escalator, an under-escalator, or genuinely discriminating. Only one of those readings tells you what to fix.
What you walk away with
A pass threshold with meaning behind it — earned on applied casework, not on recall, and shareable as evidence of compliance judgment.
Sensitivity plotted against false alarms, so you learn whether you miss real suspicion, over-escalate the innocent, or discriminate accurately between them.
How you handle onboarding cases where the paperwork is complete but the picture is not, scored case by case.
Whether you read transaction patterns correctly under volume — the daily work where most AML failures actually originate.
The high-consequence corner: screening matches, escalation routes, what you may say and to whom, keyed to FATF-style standards.
Inside your report
Illustrative sample — your report is generated from your own responses.
Built for
- Onboarding analysts, relationship managers and transaction monitoring teams in banking, fintech, payments and remittance
- Compliance supervisors baselining a team's applied judgment, not just its training completion
- Candidates building a compliance career who need demonstrable evidence of judgment
Earn the certificate on judgment, not recall
30 scored cases · about 40 minutes · Detection Grid report · certificate at 70%.
₹1,199 (incl. GST) · assessment and full report, nothing further to pay
Frequently asked questions
Four competencies: KYC and customer due diligence, transaction monitoring and red flags, sanctions and PEP screening, and reporting, tipping-off and escalation — through 18 realistic cases plus knowledge items keyed to FATF-style standards used in most jurisdictions.
A scoring design built for this certification. Because some cases are genuinely suspicious and some are innocent, it measures both error types — missed suspicion and false alarms — and places you on a sensitivity-versus-discrimination grid, which a single percentage score cannot show.
Yes. The pass threshold is 70%, and passing earns a certificate you can share. The report is issued either way, so a near-miss still tells you exactly which error type to correct.
It is keyed to FATF-style standards that underpin AML regimes in most jurisdictions rather than to one country's rulebook, so it travels across banking, fintech, payments and remittance settings.
Banking, fintech, payments and remittance staff — relationship managers, onboarding analysts, monitoring teams and supervisors — plus candidates building a compliance career. ₹1,199 in India (including GST) or US$11.99 elsewhere; about 40 minutes.
Every level from aspiring leader to the boardroom has its own readiness assessment — its own research base, scoring model and verdict report. Wherever you are now, and wherever you are heading next, there is a rung that measures it.
See every level →Methodology: Measures applied anti-money-laundering and know-your-customer judgment through original case items keyed to published standards and evidence: the FATF Recommendations and risk-based approach guidance (FATF, 2012, as updated), the Basel Committee's customer due diligence principles (BCBS, 2001), the Wolfsberg Group correspondent banking and CDD principles, FinCEN advisories on structuring and trade-based laundering, Egmont Group typologies, the UNODC estimates of laundering scale, the economics of money laundering (Reuter & Truman, 2004; Levi & Reuter, 2006; Unger, 2007), the 'crying wolf' model of over-reporting and report quality (Takáts, 2011), and India's Prevention of Money Laundering Act framework (PMLA, 2002) as a jurisdictional example. Items are framed on international FATF-style standards rather than any single rulebook. Detection Grid is an original scoring design: case items are labelled suspicious or legitimate behind the scenes, and each option carries a flag-versus-clear code, so the report computes hit rate and false-alarm rate separately and plots discrimination, alongside domain mastery per area. Items are original works; no commercial instrument or proprietary courseware is reproduced.