KYC Intermediate
Enhance Your Expertise, With ACAMS' KYC Intermediate
For compliance professionals, the importance of knowing your customer can’t be understated. Managing your risk throughout the client onboarding process is essential to protecting your business against financial crime. As regulatory scrutiny continues to intensify, you need a comprehensive understanding of how to identify, manage, and mitigate your client risk.
The ACAMS KYC CDD intermediate training is designed for professionals with previous know your customer (KYC) and customer due diligence (CDD) experience, who are looking to complete an AML KYC intermediate compliance course. The course will help you build on your existing KYC/CDD expertise, so you can mitigate your risks more effectively.
Following ACAMS KYC Foundations, our KYC CDD Intermediate certificate is the second step to becoming CKYCA certified.
KYC Intermediate Course Content
This KYC CDD intermediate compliance course covers the complex risks you should be aware of when working in an intermediate-level KYC or CDD role. The program will help you identify sources of customer wealth and flag potential criminal activity hidden behind opaque and complex structures.
You will learn how to implement robust controls, assess complex client cases, and conduct ongoing due diligence to keep your business safe from financial and reputational damage.
Course content is written by ACAMS subject matter experts. It includes real-life case examples and review questions so you can test your knowledge as you progress through each training module.
You’ll learn to
- Manage high-risk clients and conduct risk-based escalation
- Categorize your risk into customer, jurisdiction, product, and channel
- Review customers that are difficult to identify, including shell companies and ultimate beneficial owners (UBOs)
- Spot inconsistencies in information
- Use open-source information to validate your findings
- Identify customers that are high-risk for bribery, tax evasion, and sanctions violations
- Produce and maintain customer profiles and conduct ongoing due diligence
Key course topics
- Manage high-risk clients and escalate appropriately
- Categorise risk by customer, jurisdiction, product, and channel
- Review hard-to-identify customers (e.g., shell companies, UBOs)
- Detect inconsistencies in customer information
- Validate findings using open-source data
- Identify high-risk customers for bribery, tax evasion, and sanctions
- Maintain profiles and perform ongoing due diligence
Intended audience
This ACAMS KYC CDD intermediate training course is designed for professionals who have existing experience in know your customer and customer due diligence processes. The intended audience for this course includes:
- Compliance professionals looking to enhance their KYC/CDD knowledge
- Those working in front line KYC positions
- Those who have already completed a foundation-level KYC certificate or CDD certificate, such as ACAMS KYC Foundations, or have similar experience
- Professionals looking for to progress toward the Certified KYC Associate (CKYCA) designation
Course structure
- Four-week KYC intermediate course online
- Available on desktop or mobile (and most other devices)
- Complete at your own pace
- Pass a short, 20-question final assessment to receive a recognized KYC certificate
- Results available immediately
Did you know?
ACAMS associate-level certifications are modular and built from a basis of our certificate courses.
Both our KYC Foundations Certificate and our KYC Intermediate Certificate give you credit which counts toward your CKYCA Certification. By completing the KYC foundations and KYC intermediate courses online, and then passing the proctored certification exam, you can earn the full CKYCA designation.
Foundations Certificate
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Intermediate Certificate
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Proctored Exam
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Associate Level Certification
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FAQs
There are no prerequisites for taking the ACAMS KYC Intermediate Certificate course. Participants should have already completed a foundation-level KYC certificate or CDD certificate, such as ACAMS KYC Foundations, or have similar experience.
ACAMS offers its KYC Intermediate certificate course in Dutch, English, French, German, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, and Traditional Chinese.
Pricing
- Access your self-paced online course
- 400 hours of training webinars live and on demand
- Practitioner toolkits and best practice guides
- Perspectives from 115,000+ global members
- Discounts on all ACAMS products