Acquire the skills needed to fight financial crime.
Financial crime fuels some of the worst crimes against society including human trafficking, child sex trafficking, drug trafficking, environmental crimes, frauds and scams like pig butchering.
We are addressing this challenge by helping build a community of skilled professionals with verifiable skills i.e., Certified Due Diligence Professionals (CDDPs). Our AFC Programs are focussed on helping anti-financial crime professionals acquire and sustain the practical due diligence skills needed to foster trust and help businesses mitigate the risk of financial crime and fuel commerce.
Why do I need verifiable skills?
It is simple, verifiable skills help foster trust.
Trust is critical to ensure active engagement from clients.
Skilled professionals are critical to foster trust and drive engagement.
Our programs help you acquire the verifiable skills needed and get the ongoing upskilling needed to sustain your skills.
We have created an independent "Curriculum Advisory Group" (CAG) to ensure our curriculum and approach is informed by input from leaders with industry, regulatory and academic experience. The CAG ensures that the curriculum is reflective of industry needs, emerging financial crime risks, regulatory expectations and emerging technology like AI.
Engagement drives access to data critical for due diligence.
Skilled professionals help you navigate the complex world of anti-financial crime.
Our Anti-Financial Crime efforts need the same professional standards that we have come to expect from other areas of our life e.g., Tax, accounting, financial planning etc.
Being a CCDP
CDDPs benefit
benefits all
the community
Businesses
Clients
When dealing with CDDPs, clients have the assurance that they are dealing with a professional who has the verified skills and credentials needed to responsibly handle their data. Due diligence professionals have unfettered access to client data and when dealing with businesses who want access to their data, we are reminding clients that, it pays to ask, do you employ Certified Due Diligence Professionals?
Businesses will now have access to skilled professionals who have the verifiable skills and credentials needed to help them fight financial crime effectively. We think it is critical businesses invest in CDDPs given the client data that due diligence professionals have access to but to also ensure a better ROI on their investments including their investments in AI. When hiring for your teams or outsourced teams. It pays to invest in Certified Due Diligence Professionals.
The financial crime pandemic continues to devastate the communities we live in and is now a pandemic. We survived Covid for several reasons but none more so than the access we had to trained front-line workers. Financial crime fuels some of the worst crimes against humanity and access to skilled professionals is critical. We believe communities must demand that businesses invest in skilled professionals with verifiable skills.
Irrespective of whether you seek a career in anti-financial crime, already work in anti-financial crime or serve clients as a lawyer, accountant, tax consultant, financial planner or similar, knowledge of and the skills needed to fight financial crime is becoming critical. Even the introduction of AI and AI Assistants mean the skills needed to oversee these AI agents is growing. It pays to acquire the verifiable skills and credentials needed to serve clients and businesses. It pays to become a Certified Due Diligence Professional.
Acquire the verifiable skills needed to fight financial crime
Programs tailored for people across all levels and roles.
Anti-Financial Crime Elements
Irrespective of wether you are an intern or a board member this program will help you gain the knowledge and connect the dots between crime, financial crime and anti-financial crime.
Learn about money laundering, terrorism financing, proliferation financing and sanctions. Learn about KYC, Enhanced Due Diligence and Ongoing Due Diligence.
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Anti-Financial Crime Bootcamp
This is a live anti-financial crime masterclass. This program is designed to ensure you gain an in-depth understanding of anti-money laundering, counter-terrorism financing and sanctions compliance.
This program includes a deep dive on key topics like KYC, Enhanced Due Diligence, Beneficial ownership, PEPs, Source of funds and Source of wealth.
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Certified Due Diligence Professional (CDDP) Program
The CDDP Programs goal is to create a community of skilled professionals with verifiable due diligence skills such that it can help foster trust in people and businesses. The program is 30% theory and 70% hands on case reviews. Ongoing upskilling is an integral part of the program and a pre requisite to retain the CDDP accreditation.
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Anti-Financial Crime for Relationship Managers
General anti-financial crime training just doesn’t cut it when it comes to relationship managers, private bankers, business banking managers and anyone who manages a client relationship
This program uses case studies and will give you the practical knowledge and skills needed, to help you, your business and your clients stay on the right side of money laundering, terrorism financing and sanctions compliance requirements.
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Anti-Financial Crime International Trade
This bootcamp is led by someone who has been in the role of Global Head of Trade Monitoring for one of the largest banks in the world. Fighting Trade based money laundering is as complex as it gets and the goal is to help you gain an understanding of trade, get a deep understanding of the trade-based trade craft that money launderers use.
We will help you understand the instruments of trade and review case studies to help you gain the expertise needed to work in this area.
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Anti-Financial Crime Audit
Teams who work in the third line of defence i.e., Audit have a key role to play in helping achieve effectiveness in the fight against financial crime. The AFC Audit Program combines anti-financial crime and audit expertise to suit both audit professionals who want to gain AFC knowledge and AFC professionals who wish to pursue a career in audit.
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Irrespective of whether you are on the Board or an intern, we have a program for you.
Our 'Alpha' programs are for those who seek out new challenges and want to make a difference. You seek to understand and value lived experience. You want to learn from people who have been in the trenches, you learn best via case studies, stories and when you understand the why.
You are curious, you want to learn more and you are ready to take the next step in advancing your skills. You want to upskill to further your understanding and keep pace with the constantly changing nature of financial crime. Perhaps you are new to anti-financial crime, want a career change and wish to pursue a full time career in anti-financial crime.
You are committed to the mission, wish to establish yourself as a 'Certified Due Diligence Professional' and want to foster the trust critical to serving people and businesses. You appreciate that crime and financial crime are constantly evolving and understand the need to keep yourself upskilled to be relevant.
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FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions
Once you acquire the CDDP certification Client Fabric will organise a monthly upskilling session to ensure your learning is current and you have a forum to have your questions, related to AFC, answered. Attending these sessions and keeping your learning current is also a key requirement for the annual recertification.
All of the key professionals we rely on have verifiable skills i.e., someone has trained and tested them. We place our trust in that process having done its job well and therefore we trust these professionals. The CDDP Program will train and test your ability to conduct due diligence and this then allows us to make a representation to the industry that you have acquired the skills needed to conduct due diligence i.e., we verify your skills and make this representation to the industry.
A CDDP certification gives you the verifiable skills needed to give yourself the best chance to secure a role in the 'always in demand' anti-financial crime sector. A CDDP certification also means you would have acquired the skills needed to be effective in your role as a financial crime fighter and save lives.
CAG stands for the Curriculum Advisory Group and is a group of leaders from industry, regulators and academia who have been assembled to review and provide guidance on the curriculum being developed. The CAG's goal is to ensure that the content is industry relevant and addresses gaps identified. The CAG is chaired by Ray Blake and meets every month.
Client Fabric Tech Ltd. provides the CDDP certification with the curriculum for the CDDP certification being overseen by the Curriculum Advisory Group (CAG).
Anti-Financial Crime is the sum total of all of the controls to fight financial crime and includes upskilling. Our upskilling programs focus on helping you acquire the verifiable due diligence skills which are a critical part of anti-financial crime efforts.
You have to apply to be accepted OR be nominated by your employer. There is an assessment before you are admitted to participate in the program. In some cases you may need to complete the AFC Elements or the AFC Bootcamp program before you can participate in the CDDP Program. This is especially the case if you have less than 2 years of work experience.
CDDP is short for a Certified Due Diligence Professional and we believe they are critical in the fight against financial crime. You see, we have professionals we rely on in all walks of life including for managing our tax, accounting, legal needs and even to take care of our pets BUT, when it comes to fighting financial crime, for some reason we have never invested in skilled professionals who need to meet certain professional standards. We think this is a serious gap and are seeking to address that with the creation of the CDDP program.
