Crypto Financial Crime Compliance Specialist | CARCI

Crypto Financial Crime Compliance Specialist

This course focuses on the prevention and detection of financial crimes within the crypto industry. It equips participants with the tools and techniques needed to ensure compliance with anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorism financing (CTF) regulations, safeguarding against financial crime in the crypto space.

This course focuses on the prevention and detection of financial crimes within the crypto industry. It equips participants with the tools and techniques needed to ensure compliance with anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorism financing (CTF) regulations, safeguarding against financial crime in the crypto space.

30-40 hours

Online study time

2.5 hours

Exam Time

80-100 hours

Recommended total study time

150 Questions

Exam

Crypto Financial Crime Compliance Specialist

This course focuses on the prevention and detection of financial crimes within the crypto industry. It equips participants with the tools and techniques needed to ensure compliance with anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorism financing (CTF) regulations, safeguarding against financial crime in the crypto space.

30-40 hours

Online study time

2.5 hours

Exam Time

80-100 hours

Recommended total study time

150 Questions

Exam

About Crypto FinCrime Compliance Course

Crypto infrastructure moves value faster and across more borders than most compliance frameworks were built to handle — and financial crime adapted accordingly. This course covers crypto AML and CFT obligations, the blockchain typologies embedded in operational risk analysis today, and the controls compliance teams rely on to detect, investigate, and report illicit financial activity. Built for practitioners who need to operate these frameworks — not just read about them.

Understand How Crypto-Enabled Crime Works

Learn how illicit activity actually moves through crypto, from layering and obfuscation to real world cashout methods and evolving threat patterns.

Master Crypto AML and FATF Standards

Get clear on the rules and expectations shaping global crypto compliance, including FATF guidance, AML controls, and how enforcement is evolving.

Build Controls That Work in Practice

Go beyond theory. This course helps you design practical monitoring, investigations, and risk based controls that align with how crypto businesses operate today.

  • Understand How Crypto-Enabled Crime Works

    Learn how illicit activity actually moves through crypto, from layering and obfuscation to real world cashout methods and evolving threat patterns.

  • Master Crypto AML and FATF Standards

    Get clear on the rules and expectations shaping global crypto compliance, including FATF guidance, AML controls, and how enforcement is evolving.

  • Build Controls That Work in Practice

    Go beyond theory. This course helps you design practical monitoring, investigations, and risk based controls that align with how crypto businesses operate today.

Structure of Crypto FinCrime Compliance Course

This course is structured to take you from blockchain fundamentals through crypto AML regulation, crime typologies, and the practical compliance frameworks used by modern teams. Each module builds toward real world implementation, not just theory.

Blockchain Fundamentals

Provides a practical 101 on how blockchains work, key terminology, concepts and the features that make crypto markets unique.

Crypto Regulation 1.0: Anti-Money Laundering Laws

Gives a clear refresher on the origins of AML laws, how the FATF standards evolved, and when they were first applied to crypto, shaping today’s global compliance expectations.

Crypto-Enabled Crimes

Covers major crime categories and their subtypes, and shows how crypto’s attributes became tools for both new and traditional criminal activity.


Money Laundering in Crypto: Typologies

Explains ML as a derivative crime, compares traditional and crypto-specific typologies, and explores risk venues and actors that enable large-scale money laundering.

Money Laundering in Crypto: Typologies

Explains ML as a derivative crime, compares traditional and crypto-specific typologies, and explores risk venues and actors that enable large-scale money laundering.

Designing an AML Framework and Building Compliance Culture

Walks through creating a full AML programme: business-wide risk assessment, policies and procedures, controls design, governance, and ongoing review.

Know-Your-Customer: Building the Foundation of Compliance

Breaks down the core layers of global AML due diligence: off-chain verification, sanctions, PEP and adverse-media screenings, and on-chain wallet and activity checks.

Catching Signals: Transaction Monitoring & SAR Reporting in Crypto

Covers how to design a crypto TM framework: red flags, rule logic, alert generation, risk, investigative steps, and escalation into SAR reporting.

Programmable Compliance

Explores how compliance functions can be automated or built directly into protocols. from smart-contract controls to real-time supervisory visibility.

Travel Rule

Explains how the traditional banking Travel Rule was adapted to crypto, how information must flow between VASPs, and what changed with the FATF’s 2025 updates.

Crypto Financial Crime Compliance Begins Where General AML Training Ends.

This course covers crypto AML and CFT obligations, blockchain financial crime typologies, transaction monitoring, Travel Rule, and the controls compliance teams rely on to detect, investigate, and report illicit activity across digital asset environments.