Certified Anti Money Laundering Professional (CAMP)
CAMP (Certified Anti Money Laundering Professional) is Riskpro Learning's practitioner-track AML/CFT certification, combining a full video curriculum with a live, graded alert-investigation simulation.
CAMP — Certified Anti-Money Laundering Professional is Riskpro Learning's practitioner-track AML/CFT certification, pairing a full video curriculum with a hands-on investigation simulator.
The video lessons cover the risk-based approach, transaction monitoring and regulatory reporting, sanctions and PEP screening, money service businesses, virtual assets, trade-based laundering, and shell-company red flags.
The simulator is the practical half of the certification: you work a live alert queue, escalate and manage real-style cases, and write the narrative for a regulatory filing, exactly as an AML analyst or investigator would.
Every learning module ends with a short, timed practice quiz (up to 3 attempts) so you can check your own understanding along the way. Finish every module and pass the final exam to earn your certificate.
At a glance
- Certification
- Certified Anti Money Laundering Professional (CAMP)
- Provider
- Risk Academy (Riskpro Learning)
- Format
- Self-paced online certification
- Modules
- 11
- Video lessons
- 68
- Learning content
- 3h 56m
- Practical component
- CAMP AML Investigation Simulator
- Assessment
- Module quizzes, a final examination and the graded CAMP AML Investigation Simulator
- Certificate
- Included, with a verifiable certificate ID
- Access
- Lifetime
- Price
- $499 one-time
This is what you'll walk away with
A named certificate the moment you complete every module and pass the final examination — issued automatically, no waiting on manual review.
- ✅ Your full name, printed automatically the moment you qualify
- ✅ Downloadable as a PDF
- ✅ Shareable directly to your LinkedIn profile's License & Certifications section
- ✅ Issued with a unique certificate ID, verifiable by any third party
- ✅ No manual review or waiting period — issued the instant you pass
What You'll Learn
Video lessons are the theory half of this certification. The other half is a live, graded alert-investigation simulation where you work a real-style case queue end to end -- the part that sets CAMP apart from a plain video course.
1Foundations of AML & KYC 12 min
- What is CAMP?
- What is AML?
- What is KYC?
- Know Your Customer in Detail
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- AML V/s KYC
2The Risk-Based Approach (RBA) 18 min
- RBML Introduction
- Risk Based Approach to AML
- How does Risk Based Approach Work?
- Two Pillars of RBML
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- Customer Risk Profiling
3Transaction Monitoring & Regulatory Reporting 18 min
- Understanding Red Flags
- Transaction Monitoring
- When to file the STR
4PEP, Sanctions & Adverse Media Screening 18 min
- Screening Against the PEP List
- PEP Modus Operandi
- Foreign PEP
- Sanction Screening
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- Adverse Media
- Real Estate High Risk Business
5Money Service Businesses (MSBs) 30 min
- What are MSB'S
- MSB History
- AML Perspective for MSB'S
- MSB Record Keeping
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- Suspicious Transaction MSB
- AML Scenerio MSB
- Cuckoo-Smurfing
- Further AML Scenerio for MSB'S
6AI & Automation in AML: RPA, ML & NLP 16 min
- Applying RPA
- Natural Language
- Machine Learning in Anti Money Laundering
- Data Cleaning
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- Application of Machine Learning
7Virtual Assets, Crypto & Darknet Laundering 30 min
- Introduction to Crypto Asset
- What are the crimes in crypto?
- Crypto Laundering through Money Mules
- Laundering through Crypto Exchanges
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- Darknet and Deepnet
- Underground Marketplace
- Digital Currency Risk Assessment
- Crypto Transaction Monitoring
8Trade-Based Money Laundering (TBML) 47 min
- Understanding the Trade Finance
- Understanding Letter of Credit
- Understanding International Trade
- TBML Techniques Invoice Manipulation
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- Mechanism of TBML
- Introduction to TBML
- Shipment Process
- Role of Financial Institutes
- Example of Crime in Trade
- Common TBML Techniques
- Business sectors and the Risk Associated with them
- Broad and Senior management Over site
- Red Flags of TBML
- Gold Laundering
9Real-World Case Studies & Regulatory Enforcement 25 min
- Troika Laundering
- Biggest fines on Banks due to KYC
- 1MDB Scandal
- Fincen Files
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- Commonwealth Bank of Australia
- European Laundering
10Shell Companies & High-Risk Corporate Structures 18 min
- Web of Companies
- Uses of Paper Companies
- Shell Companies
- How to Identify Shell Companies
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- Red Flags of Shell Companies
11Simulation Lab CAMP AML Investigation Simulator
- L1 Investigations: Live Alert Queue
- L2 Case Management: Escalated Investigations
- L3 Narrative Lab: Regulatory Reporting
Frequently Asked Questions
What is CAMP?
CAMP (Certified Anti Money Laundering Professional) is Riskpro Learning's AML/CFT compliance certification: 68 on-demand video lessons across 11 modules (10 content modules plus the graded Simulation Lab module), and a final examination, leading to a certificate on completion.
Do I get a certificate?
Yes — a certificate is issued on completing every module and passing the final examination.
How do I get access after paying?
Payment is processed securely by Stripe. Access is granted automatically and immediately once payment is confirmed — no manual approval or waiting period.
Is CAMP a practical AML certification?
Yes -- alongside the video curriculum and final exam, every CAMP candidate works the CAMP AML Investigation Simulator, a graded case-investigation exercise covering 150+ realistic alerts, and receives the resulting gradebook alongside their certificate as evidence of practical, hands-on performance.
Is CAMP by Risk Academy the same as other certifications called CAMP?
No. More than one provider uses the name "Certified Anti-Money Laundering Professional (CAMP)". This CAMP is offered by Risk Academy, the global initiative of Riskpro Learning (the training vertical of Riskpro Management Consulting Pvt. Ltd.), and is the one assessed through the CAMP AML Investigation Simulator. Every certificate carries a unique verification ID that can be checked on the certificate verification page of this site.
Key Terms & Glossary
43 terms used in this course, in plain language.
- AML
- Anti-Money Laundering — the laws, regulations and controls a financial institution runs to prevent, detect and report the movement of illicit funds through its products.
- CFT
- Countering the Financing of Terrorism — the parallel discipline to AML focused specifically on funds intended to support terrorist activity, often bundled together as "AML/CFT."
- CAMP
- Acronym for Certified Anti Money Laundering Professional. It is the certification course offered by Riskpro learning which provides simulation labs for the AML professionals to work in the real life investigation environment.
- KYC
- Know Your Customer — the process of verifying a customer's identity and understanding the nature of their expected activity at onboarding.
- CDD
- Customer Due Diligence — the standard level of KYC information and ongoing monitoring applied to every customer, risk-rated to match their profile.
- EDD
- Enhanced Due Diligence — a deeper level of scrutiny applied to higher-risk customers (e.g. PEPs, high-risk jurisdictions), involving additional evidence gathering and more frequent review.
- PEP
- Politically Exposed Person — an individual who holds, or has held, a prominent public function, or their immediate family/close associates, carrying elevated corruption risk.
- UBO
- Ultimate Beneficial Owner — the natural person(s) who ultimately own or control a legal entity, even if the ownership is structured through intermediary companies or nominees.
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- SAR
- Suspicious Activity Report — a confidential report filed with a financial intelligence unit when an institution has reasonable grounds to suspect a transaction or relationship is linked to criminal activity.
- STR
- Suspicious Transaction Report — the term used in many non-US jurisdictions for the same filing concept as a SAR.
- CTR
- Currency Transaction Report — a mandatory report filed whenever a cash transaction (or series of related transactions) crosses a statutory threshold, regardless of whether it looks suspicious.
- EFTR
- Electronic Funds Transfer Report — a mandatory report on qualifying electronic transfers above a threshold, analogous to a CTR but for wire/EFT activity rather than cash.
- FIU
- Financial Intelligence Unit — the national government body that receives SARs/STRs from institutions, analyses them, and can pass actionable intelligence to law enforcement.
- MLRO
- Money Laundering Reporting Officer — the senior individual formally designated as responsible for an institution's AML programme, including SAR filing decisions.
- RFI
- Request for Information — a formal question sent to a relationship manager or, carefully, the customer, to resolve an open concern before a disposition is made.
- Tipping-off
- Illegally alerting a customer (directly or indirectly) that they are, or may be, the subject of a suspicious activity investigation or report — a criminal offence in most jurisdictions.
- Four-Eyes / Maker-Checker
- A control requiring that the person who recommends a decision cannot also be the person who approves it — a second, independent reviewer must sign off.
- FATF
- Financial Action Task Force — the global standard-setting body for AML/CFT policy; most national regulations are built around its 40 Recommendations.
- OFAC
- Office of Foreign Assets Control — the US Treasury body that administers and enforces US economic and trade sanctions, including the SDN List.
- SDN List
- Specially Designated Nationals List — OFAC's list of individuals and entities with whom US persons are generally prohibited from dealing.
- Placement
- The first stage of money laundering: introducing illicit cash into the financial system, e.g. via cash deposits.
- Layering
- The second stage: moving funds through multiple transactions, accounts or jurisdictions to obscure their origin.
- Integration
- The third stage: reintroducing laundered funds into the legitimate economy, e.g. via investments or purchases, so they appear clean.
- Structuring / Smurfing
- Breaking a large sum into multiple smaller transactions, each below a reporting threshold, to avoid triggering mandatory reporting.
- TBML
- Trade-Based Money Laundering — disguising criminal proceeds by misrepresenting the price, quantity or quality of goods in trade documentation.
- Shell Company
- A legal entity with no genuine business activity, employees or physical operations, often used to obscure the true source or owner of funds.
- Funnel Account
- An account that receives many small deposits from dispersed sources and consolidates them into large outbound transfers.
- Money Mule
- An individual (often unwittingly) who allows their account to be used to receive and forward funds on behalf of a criminal network, usually in exchange for a small fee.
- Nested Account
- A situation where a respondent bank allows a third bank to use its correspondent account without the correspondent institution's knowledge or approval.
- VASP
- Virtual Asset Service Provider — a business (exchange, custodian, etc.) that conducts activities involving virtual assets on behalf of customers, subject to its own AML obligations.
- Travel Rule
- The requirement that originator and beneficiary information travel with a funds transfer (including virtual asset transfers) so it can be screened at each step.
- Red Flag
- An individual indicator (not on its own proof of wrongdoing) that, especially in combination with others, raises the likelihood a transaction or relationship is suspicious.
- Typology
- A recognised pattern or method by which money laundering or terrorist financing is typically carried out, used to design detection rules and train investigators.
- Risk-Based Approach
- Allocating AML resources and control intensity in proportion to the actual money-laundering/terrorist-financing risk a customer, product or relationship presents.
- Source of Funds
- The origin of the specific funds involved in a particular transaction or relationship (e.g. "salary," "sale of property").
- Source of Wealth
- The origin of a customer's entire net worth accumulated over time, a broader concept than source of funds, typically required for higher-risk/PEP relationships.
- De-Risking
- An institution exiting or declining entire categories of customers or business considered too high-risk to manage, rather than managing the risk on a case-by-case basis.
- Watchlist
- A maintained list (sanctions, PEP, internal hotlist, adverse media) screened against customer and transaction data to surface potential matches.
- Escalation
- Formally routing a case to a more senior or specialised reviewer (e.g. L1 to L2, L2 to L3/MLRO) because it needs deeper investigation or higher authority to close.
- Disposition
- The final decision recorded against an alert or case (e.g. cleared, escalated, SAR filed) along with the rationale supporting it.
- Reasonable Grounds to Suspect
- The legal threshold in most jurisdictions for filing a SAR/STR — a level below certainty or proof, but more than a vague hunch, grounded in specific, articulable facts.
- Adverse Media
- Credible negative news coverage about a customer or associated party, screened for links to financial crime, corruption or other predicate offences.
- Correspondent Banking
- An arrangement where one bank (the correspondent) provides services to another bank (the respondent) to give it access to markets or currencies it can't reach directly.
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Summary & Key Takeaways
CAMP combines 68 video lessons across 11 modules with the CAMP AML Investigation Simulator, a live, graded case-investigation exercise, and a final examination. Per FATF's 40 Recommendations (fatf-gafi.org), the global AML/CFT standard most national regulators implement, the risk-based approach and SAR/STR-style reporting CAMP teaches are core expectations of any compliance programme. A certificate, carrying a unique, third-party-verifiable ID, is issued once every module, the simulator, and the final exam are complete.
References & Further Reading
Official sources
- FATF (Financial Action Task Force) -- the 40 Recommendations — The global standard-setting body for AML/CFT, whose 40 Recommendations most national AML regimes implement.
- FinCEN (US Treasury Financial Crimes Enforcement Network) — Sets Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) requirements for US financial institutions.
- OFAC (US Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control) — Maintains the Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list and sanctions-compliance guidance.
- The Wolfsberg Group — Publishes widely-used AML principles for correspondent banking.
- RBI (Reserve Bank of India) -- Master Directions on KYC — Governs Indian banks' AML/KYC obligations.
Further reading
- AML Compliance Program: 5 Pillars of Success RegTech Times — The building blocks of an AML compliance programme.
- Red Flags of Money Laundering Indiaforensic — Common warning signs analysts look for in customer activity.
- Enhanced Due Diligence: What, When and How? Indiaforensic — When EDD applies and what it involves.
- Funnel Accounts: Another Money Laundering Tool RegTech Times — How funnel accounts work, one of the typologies in the simulator.
- Know Your Business: A Powerful Tool in the AML Framework RegTech Times — KYC, KYB and KYCC compared.
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