ICA Advanced Certificate in Practical Customer Due Diligence (CDD)

What will you learn?
- Outcomes and success criteria of KYC
- Identification and verification
- Understanding the customer
- Understanding the relationship
- Beneficial ownership
- Understanding the control structure of the entity
- Customer screening
- Risk acceptance
- Enhanced due diligence

- Those engaged in practical CDD - in an onboarding or remediation function
- Contractors who wish to enter the CDD environment
- Managers who oversee CDD teams
- Those responsible for creating/developing CDD frameworks
- New/recently appointed MLROs and deputies
- Internal auditors assuming responsibilities for money laundering/financial crime issues
- All individuals engaged who aspire to a career in anti money laundering

This course is open to anyone who is interested in furthering their CDD knowledge and skills, however, holding some relevant business experience will allow you to take full advantage of the course. The content of the programme requires students to possess:
- Sound educational background
- Good written English skills

International Compliance Association Advanced Certificate awarded in association with Alliance Manchester Business School, the University of Manchester.

There is a lot of choice when it comes to your qualification – and we know that there are other options – but take a look at the benefits of choosing an ICA qualification:
• Independently awarded qualifications that are also awarded in association with the UK’s largest campus-based business school: Alliance Manchester Business School, the University of Manchester.
• As this is an accredited educational institution, you can be rest assured that your achievements will be recognised globally by both regulators and employers as being the benchmark of excellence
• Assessed in a way that tests your critical thinking and judgment skills rather than just your memory
• Career-enhancing with many students reporting promotions or higher-paid jobs as a result of attaining their qualification
• Practically focused and designed so you can apply your knowledge immediately, empowering you to perform at your very best
• Enable you to develop best practice initiatives that help prevent and mitigate risk at your firm
• Be part of their global compliance community of thousands of like-minded professionals

This six month course is being offered in London, Jersey and Guernsey, as well as online and in-company in the following format:

- Pre-reading/exercises/tasks to be completed in advance of workshops, delivered via the ICT learning platform.
- Two compulsory workshops covering key areas and embedding them through discussions and practical exercises.
- Innovative workshop exercises that use mock CDD documents, genuinely reflecting the practical issues encountered in the CDD environment
- One assessment (2,000-2,500 words) to be delivered before 19 September 2019

In order to study any ICA qualification you need to be a member of the ICA, joining their international professional community of thousands of like-minded individuals.

- Learn from your peers - learn new ideas and approaches that allow you to become more efficient at work
- Ask questions about the course that directly relates to your role, bringing the subject matter to life
- Learn from world-class subject matter experts who are not just tutors, but have worked in the field of regulatory risk and compliance
- Networking opportunities!
- Explore a new way of working - hands on information that is specific to your role helps you grow as a professional. Curate new ideas to help you with your approach to work.
- Break out of your comfort zone - sitting in a workshop can be a daunting experience if you haven;t been in education for a while but this can help you find new ways of thinking, thus adding value to your role
- Have fun and grow in confidence in your approach!

- Access to coursework and tutors from anywhere in the world
- Combination of both structure and freedom - you can have the structure of a formal classroom environment with the freedom to do an online course that suits your individual learning needs
- Addresses the work-life balance that a lot of people feel is a barrier to learning
- Expanded worldview - you will learn with international students, not necessarily from your jurisdiction, you get an exclusive insight into other businesses, cultures and attitudes which can inform your own approaches to problem solving
- Increased digital skills - while increasing your knowledge and skills in your chosen subject, you can also benefit from using online learning technology.

You can find more information here: https://www.int-comp.com/qualifications/advanced-certificate-in-cdd/