Financial Crime Training
That Breaks The Mould.

"We know that the 'true' cost of compliance is often wholly underestimated. Especially when it comes to the thousands of valuable productive employee hours being unnecessarily wasted on ineffective compliance training regimes; often a series of uninspiring, one-size-fits-all, box-ticking routines that serve to fuel an increase in compliance fatigue, encourages disengagement with required regulatory learning and - crucially - provides no leading, real-time indicators of competency-based risks for the employer."

"Staff had completed all their required online training modules with perfect scores. Yet they missed obvious red flags in their day‑to‑day work. Why? Because the real world is messier…" "Building good scenarios is an art. They need to be complex enough to be realistic but simple enough to be digestible."

"The inclusion of immersive scenarios - where fee earners are asked to set out what steps they would take in certain situations - will also help to test understanding, keep training more interactive and relevant to a fee earners role." "The use of mixed media sources, such as videos, audios and text, will also help to keep training more engaging, particularly to those who learn through visual or auditory means."

"The lack of effectiveness of the training provided to staff has also been evident during interviews with employees, who, in some instances, have demonstrated low levels of Financial Crime awareness."

"Firms should make sure that training is effective, robust and commercially relevant. When training is tiresome and unnecessarily onerous, it loses its effect and creates the risk of neglect."

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