Financial Crime Analysis

Offered through the new Canadian Institute for Financial Crime Analysis (CIFCA), this unique, accessible eight-month professional development program provides you with the specialized training needed for this rapidly evolving sector of financial services.

Further professionalize your skills and advance your potential opportunities through the relevant six-course curriculum which incorporates hands-on practical lab work and the opportunity to learn from and network with industry experts.

Benefits

• Further professionalize your skills and advance your potential opportunties.
• Learn from and network with industry experts.
• Convenient early-evening classes allow you to attend while continuing to work full time.

Curriculum

Consists of the following mandatory five-courses plus the Distant Learning Module (DLM):

• Investigative Research:  Using the Internet as an Investigative Research Tool - North America (DLM)
• Legislative and Regulatory Responses and Patterns of Offending and Victimization
• Financial Crime Risk Assessment and Mitigation
• Analysis I - the Intelligence Cycle and Intelligence Analysis (Practical Lab Component)
• Analysis II - Data and Patterns Theory and Method for Financial Crime Analysis (Practical Lab Component)
• Communication Skills

Thesis Component

Supplementary Distinction: An additional option available for qualified students.

• To assess the framework of Anti-Money Laundering legislation and regulation in Canada, and its relationship to patterns of offending and victimization.
• To provide critical insights into research methods on financial crime trends, indicators and methodologies.
• To develop rigorous intelligence and pattern analysis skills through practical laboratory work using current software, methods and techniques on appropriate data sets.
• To establish high standards of coherent reporting and presentation of financial crime analyses, and effective and sustainable assessment and management of ongoing financial crime risks.