This CPD-accredited course delivers essential knowledge for managing modern financial crime.
Sumsub Academy today announced the launch of its upgraded course, AML Transaction Monitoring 2.0. Originally introduced in January 2024 and standing as the Academy’s most popular program with over 6,000 registrations, the course has been completely revamped to address evolving regulatory expectations, emerging financial crime tactics, and modern compliance technologies.
The launch comes as Sumsub Academy scales its impact across the financial crime sector. Built as a free training hub to help compliance teams navigate complex risk landscapes, the Academy has enrolled over 10,000 professionals in the past year, with 80% of graduates recommending its courses to colleagues. All programs are officially CPD-accredited, allowing learners to earn recognized Continuing Professional Development credits while mastering practical, end-to-end transaction monitoring workflows.
This update arrives at a critical moment for financial institutions. According to Sumsub’s Identity Fraud Report 2025-2026, sophisticated, multi-step fraud attacks surged by 180% year-over-year, as criminals increasingly deploy AI-driven tactics and complex networks to bypass traditional controls. With static monitoring rules failing to keep pace, compliance teams face an urgent need to continuously refine their investigative skills and risk logic.
"As financial crime methods evolve and regulatory scrutiny intensifies globally, compliance teams cannot rely on static monitoring rules or outdated AML/AFC programmes ," said Natalie Buraimoh, Head of AML Product at Sumsub. "To protect platforms effectively today, teams must build intelligent anti-financial crime frameworks, conduct thorough investigations, report suspicious activity in a timely manner and deliver defensible compliance decisions. This means moving from reactive detection to proactive prevention in order to make better risk decisions earlier in the customer journey. In this course, we show practitioners how to enhance their own frameworks by combining identity, behaviour, transaction data and contextual intelligence. We updated this course to equip practitioners with immediate knowledge and real-world tools that match the speed and complexity of modern financial crime."
Practical, Workflow-Driven Learning
Structured into a flexible micro-learning format, AML Transaction Monitoring 2.0 consists of 21 concise sessions across 5 core modules covering the end-to-end transaction monitoring lifecycle:
- Rule & Scenario Design: Building risk-tailored monitoring logic.
- Alert Review & Prioritization: Streamlining triage and minimizing false positives.
- Investigation Workflows: Analyzing complex transactional behavior and gathering context.
- Escalation & Case Management: Structuring defensible case files.
- Regulatory Reporting: Documenting and reporting suspicious activity to authorities.
Taught by World-Class Practitioners
The curriculum is built and taught by top-tier financial crime leaders and compliance directors from leading global platforms across fintech, banking, crypto, and risk consultancy:
- Oonagh van den Berg (CEO & Founder at Virtual Risk Solutions),
- Aisling Twomey (Financial Crime Director at Monzo),
- Vera Veldscholten (Head of AML at Vivid),
- Danny Santo (Head of Compliance at Mercuryo),
- Natalie Buraimoh (Head of AML Product at Sumsub).
Through real-world case studies guided by these industry leaders, participants gain actionable insights they can immediately apply to strengthen their daily compliance operations.
To register for the free AML Transaction Monitoring 2.0 course, visit the course page.
