We design and deliver training in governance, risk management, internal control and compliance for financial institutions and organisations operating in regulated environments. Each programme is built around the real situations faced by your teams and draws on established industry frameworks.
Training only has value if it changes a practice. Our programmes start with concrete professional tasks: investigating a screening alert, documenting a second-line control, substantiating a risk rating before a committee, or examining documents under a documentary credit. Content is tailored to participants’ roles, their starting level and the institution’s existing arrangements.
01 / Approach
Our learning approach
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Scoping
An initial discussion with the sponsor, review of available internal documentation (procedures, risk maps, review reports), and identification of the situations to address.
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Design
A tailored programme, practical cases based on industry situations close to your business, and explicit links to the applicable frameworks.
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Delivery
An interactive format, with 60% of the time devoted to practical work and simulations.
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Assessment
An initial assessment, a post-training assessment of learning, and feedback to the sponsor with suggestions for practical application.
02 / Training
Training areas
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2 daysIndicative duration
Financial crime compliance — AML/CFT and KYC
Risk-based approach, customer classification, CDD and EDD, politically exposed persons, screening and alert handling, suspicious transaction reporting.
Structure of UN, EU and OFAC regimes, extraterritorial reach, the 50 Percent Rule, screening systems and reduction of false positives, dual-use goods, detection of evasion schemes.
Documentary credits and international guarantees, document examination, operational failure points, trade-based money laundering (TBML) indicators, over-invoicing and misrepresentation of goods.
Design and assessment of an internal control system, key control mapping, risk and control self-assessment (RCSA), coordination of the three lines, follow-up of audit recommendations.
COSO Internal Control – Integrated Framework (2013)
Roles and responsibilities of governing bodies, specialised committees, charters and policies, anti-corruption arrangements, management of conflicts of interest, personal data protection.
Scoping a compliance project, project governance and steering bodies, stakeholder management, planning and schedule control, change management, remediation plans following a supervisory review.
From A to Z was founded by Mohammed Qassimi, a senior governance, risk and compliance consultant with over 16 years of experience in the banking and financial sector.
Frequently asked questions
How should a risk or compliance training course be scoped?
Define the audience, the situations to be handled more effectively and the expected outcome. These three elements determine the level, practical cases and format. Content, duration and arrangements are then agreed before delivery.
Do you offer tailored programmes?
Yes. Most of our assignments are designed using the client’s internal documentation — procedures, risk maps and review reports — so that practical cases reflect participants’ actual working environment.
Do the training courses award professional certifications?
Our programmes provide a certificate of attendance and an assessment of learning. They do not award professional certifications: these are the sole responsibility of the issuing organisations.
How soon can a training session be organised?
Generally allow two to four weeks between scoping and delivery, depending on the level of customisation.
Let’s build your programme.
Describe your context and objectives: we will get back to you with a proposed programme and format.