FATF @CADEMY

As part of the FATF Training and Support Activities, the Financial Action Task Force launched the FATF @cademy in July 2020. This e-learning platform features a range of online courses, including the FATF's Introductory course, as well as recent FATF webinar recordings, instructional videos and tests to assess newly acquired knowledge.

FATF @cademy is available exclusively to officials of FATF member countries, FSRB member countries and Secretariats and FATF Observer Organisations. For registration please contact FATF.e-learning@fatf-gafi.org with your professional email address or ask your FSRB to request access for you.

Interested in learning more, but not eligible to access FATF @cademy? See FATF's Youtube channel for webinars on a range of topics.

Restricted access for FATF @cademy delegates only

Course catalogue

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This e-Learning course is tailored to the 2022 FATF Methodology.

It is designed to:

(a) present the FATF and its key work processes;

(b) provide high-level explanations of each FATF Immediate Outcome and FATF Recommendation; and

The e-Learning course available in English at the FATF @cademy It takes 3 to 4 hours to complete the course.

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FATF Recommendations The FATF Recommendations are the internationally endorsed global standards against money laundering and terrorist financing: they increase transparency and enable countries to successfully take action against illicit use of their financial system.
Mutual Evaluations The FATF conducts peer reviews of each member on an ongoing basis to assess levels of implementation of the FATF Recommendations, providing an in-depth description and analysis of each country’s system for preventing criminal abuse of the financial system

The FATF Introductory Curriculum tailored to the 2012 FATF Standards and 2013 Methodology is outdated. The course will be available at the FATF @cademy e-Learning platform until Sunday, 31 March 2024, at 23:59 (CET)

This e-learning course is designed to provide the basics about the FATF, its work to combat money laundering and terrorist financing and to clarify the technical terms and concepts that are often used. The course highlights the FATF's Recommendations and Immediate Outcomes, how to understand the Mutual Evaluation process, and much more, and is an ideal place for individuals to start their FATF learning journey.

It takes 6 to 8 hours to complete, and is also available in French, Spanish, Russian and Arabic.

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FATF Recommendations The FATF Recommendations are the internationally endorsed global standards against money laundering and terrorist financing: they increase transparency and enable countries to successfully take action against illicit use of their financial system.
Mutual Evaluations The FATF conducts peer reviews of each member on an ongoing basis to assess levels of implementation of the FATF Recommendations, providing an in-depth description and analysis of each country’s system for preventing criminal abuse of the financial system

This course provides an in-depth insight into the FATF Standards on counter proliferation financing (CPF). It introduces the CPF requirements set out in Recommendation 7 and Immediate Outcome 11, and identifies changes in relation to Recommendations 1 and 2.

Overall, the course aims to guide jurisdictions on how to implement these Recommendations.

This course takes approximately 6 hours to complete.

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Proliferation financing The FATF has responded to the threat of illicit proliferation of weapons of mass destruction by updating its standards to include measures on the implementation of targeted financial sanctions related to proliferation.

This e-Learning course aims to promote greater knowledge on the FATF Standards on terrorism financing-related targeted financial sanctions. It explains the requirements stemming from Recommendation 6 & Immediate Outcome 10, identifying changes agreed in the revised Methodology, and providing guidance to jurisdictions to implement these requirements.

This course takes approximately 3 hours to complete.

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Terrorist Financing The FATF plays a central role in global efforts to combat terrorist financing, through its role in setting global standards to combat terrorist financing, assisting jurisdictions in implementing financial provisions of the United Nations Security Council resolutions on terrorism, and evaluating countries’ ability to prevent, detect, investigate and prosecute the financing of terrorism.

This e-learning course opens a window to the Virtual Assets/Virtual Asset Service Providers (VAs/VASPs) world to members of the FATF Global Network. The course explains the changes to the FATF Standards to cover VAs/VASPs and provides learners with methods to implement the relevant requirements into their national framework.

This cours requirs approximately 5 hours to complete.

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Virtual Assets The FATF has been closely monitoring developments in the cryptosphere and has issued global, binding standards to prevent the misuse of virtual assets for money laundering and terrorist financing.

Fargoland - Risk-Based Approach Edition! This curriculum comprises the Risk-Based Supervision gamified e-learning experience and its post-course evaluation.

The training provides supervisors with a broad understanding and application of an effective risk-based approach to conduct assessments that properly evaluate the money laundering/terrorist financing risks and adjust measures to tackle money laundering and terrorism financing depending on the entities under their supervision.

The course takes between 3 and 5 hours to complete, and includes learning activities and post-assessment.

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Guidance on Risk-Based Supervision This Guidance on risk-based supervision will help supervisors address the full spectrum of risks and focus resources where the risks are highest. The risk-based approach will make supervisors' efforts to detect and prevent the financial flows that fuel crime and terrorism more effective.
Webinar on Risk-Based Supervision FATF organised a webinar with key speakers from around the world, to discuss the challenges of effective supervision.

FATF Easyland-Risk Assessment course focus on how countries should identify, assess and understand their money laundering/terrorist financing risks and the importance of the implementation of an effective risk-based approach through national encompassing measures.

The course takes between 2 and 3 hours to complete, and includes learning activities and post-assessment.

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Terrorist Financing Risk Assessment Guidance This guidance aims to assist practitioners, and particularly those in lower capacity countries, in assessing terrorist financing risk, by providing good approaches, relevant information sources and practical examples based on country experience.
National money laundering and terrorist financing risk assessment The 2012 FATF Recommendations require that countries identify, assess and understand the money laundering and terrorist financing risks facing them and adapt their AML/CFT system accordingly. The FATF has adopted a new guidance which is intended to assist in the conduct of risk assessment at the country or national level. Once ML/TF risks are properly understood, country authorities may apply AML/CFT measures in a way that ensures they are commensurate with those risks – i.e. the risk-based approach (RBA) – which is central to the FATF standards as is set out in Recommendation 1.
Money laundering and terrorist financing risks The effectiveness of measures to combat money laundering and terrorist financing depend on a country's assessment and understanding of the risks it is exposed to, and the extent to which it has mitigated these risks. This page includes examples of published national risk assessments NRAs and regional risk assessments.

This e-Learning course provides an in-depth insight into the FATF standards on transparency and beneficial ownership.
Through a gamified e-learning approach, this course explains how to implement the recent changes to recommendations 24 & 25 and includes a post-course evaluation.

This course requires approximately 4 hours to complete.

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Beneficial Ownership The FATF has made it a priority to stop criminals from laundering their dirty money or hiding illegal activities through complex corporate structures or legal persons.

The FATF amended Recommendation 24 and 25 to significantly strengthen the global response to tackling concealment of beneficial ownership of legal persons and legal arrangements.

The FATF expects all countries to take concrete steps to implement these new standards promptly, and to determine the appropriate sequence and timeframe for implementation at national level.

This e-Learning course provides an in-depth insight into the FATF standards on financial inclusion. Through practical exercises, quizzes and scenarios, users can learn more about the meaning of financial inclusion, the relevant FATF measures (including the risk-based approach and CDD) and how these can be implemented in practice.

This course requires approximately 4 hours to complete.

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Revised Guidance on AML/CFT and Financial Inclusion

In 2017 the FATF published guidance on financial inclusion, as it is convinced that the promotion of well-regulated financial systems and services is central to any effective and comprehensive Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (AML/CFT) regime.

The FATF encourages countries to develop risk-sensitive AML/CFT frameworks to build a more inclusive formal financial system, and give access to appropriate financial services to a larger proportion of the population, including the most vulnerable and unserved groups.

FATF Training Institute Busan

The dedicated FATF Training Institute in Busan, Korea, delivers in-person and virtual training to government officials from the FATF Global Network, in partnership with FATF members and, FATF-Style Regional Bodies (FSRBs) and other international organisations such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.