Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment · RQF Level 3

CISI Level 3 Certificate In Global Financial Compliance

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  • LevelRQF Level 3
  • Total credits18
  • Guided learning40 hours
  • Units in this qualification4

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What you’ll learn

What each unit actually teaches you to do

The CISI Level 3 Certificate In Global Financial Compliance provides an understanding of financial regulation in the UK and internationally. It is aimed at individuals working in, or aspiring to work in, the accounting and finance sector. Learners will develop knowledge of the financial services regulatory environment.

These are the units Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.

FSA Financial RegulationReal unit · Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment
This unit provides learners with knowledge of the Financial Services Authority's role within the regulatory infrastructure. You'll explore the FSA's responsibilities, objectives, and key provisions of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, including associated legislation and directives.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the role and responsibilities of the Financial Services Authority (FSA) within the regulatory infrastructure.
  • Understand the key provisions and implications of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000.
  • Understand associated legislation and regulation relevant to financial services.
  • Understand the impact of relevant European Union Directives on financial regulation.
  • Understand the key principles of the FSA Conduct of Business Sourcebook and regulations concerning client assets.
  • Understand the procedures for handling customer complaints and providing redress.
Global Financial ComplianceReal unit · Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment
You'll understand the international financial services regulatory environment and regulatory approaches. The unit covers compliance functions, financial crime risk management, and ethical considerations within global financial compliance frameworks.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the key aspects of the international financial services regulatory environment.
  • Understand the international approach to financial regulation and its objectives.
  • Understand the purpose and key responsibilities of the compliance function within a financial organisation.
  • Understand how the risk of financial crime is identified, assessed, and managed within a global context.
  • Understand the importance of ethics, integrity, and fairness in financial services and the role of compliance in promoting these values.
  • Understand the role of compliance in the context of corporate governance and risk management frameworks.
Principles of Financial RegulationReal unit · Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment
You'll gain a comprehensive understanding of the principles of financial regulation in the UK. The unit covers the regulatory environment, key legislation including the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, relevant EU directives, and the roles of the FCA and PRA.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the main features of the UK regulatory environment for financial services
  • Understand the purpose and key provisions of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000
  • Understand associated legislation and regulation relevant to financial services
  • Understand relevant European Union Directives impacting financial services regulation in the UK
  • Understand the key principles of the FSA Conduct of Business Sourcebook and its application
  • Understand the regulations relating to Client Assets
UK Financial RegulationReal unit · Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment
This unit provides learners with knowledge of the UK financial services regulatory environment. It includes understanding the structure and purpose of regulation, key legislation such as the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, and regulations relating to conduct and client assets.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the financial services regulatory environment in the UK
  • Understand the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000
  • Understand Associated Legislation relevant to financial services
  • Understand Regulation relevant to financial services
  • Understand the FCA Conduct of Business Sourcebook
  • Understand the regulations relating to Client Assets
  • Understand the procedures for handling Customer Complaints
  • Understand the processes for Customer Redress

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Your passport

Every credit is a stamp you keep

Level 3 credits are regulated. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you’ve earned and what’s next.

FSA Financial RegulationGlobal Financial CompliancePrinciples of Financial RegulationUK Financial Regulation

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Where this connects

Where these credits take you

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Where this can lead

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Skills it covers

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How you’ll actually learn this

One-to-one, on your own real work

A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.

One-to-one, on your real workNo lectures, no past-papers. Every unit is practised on the actual tasks your job throws at you, a tutor beside you, not a video in front of you.
Taught to the top, not the testMost courses stop at remembering. Your companion keeps climbing: analysing, judging, creating. That’s the part a machine can’t do for you.
Credits you keep, a map that continuesEvery unit is regulated and yours for good. The day you finish, Zavmo already knows the next role your new credits open.
FSA Financial RegulationLevel 3

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This unit provides learners with knowledge of the Financial Services Authority's role within the regulatory infrastructure. Learners will explore the FSA's responsibilities, objectives, and key provisions of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, including associated legislation and directives.

How the thinking builds
  1. Remember
  2. Understand
  3. Apply
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  5. Evaluate
  6. Create
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Built for CISI Level 3 Certificate In Global Financial Compliance

4 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment.

  1. FSA Financial Regulation
  2. Global Financial Compliance
  3. Principles of Financial Regulation
  4. UK Financial Regulation
These are the real units of this credential, in its own order. Nothing here is marked done, because this plan has not been started by anyone yet. Yours would fill in as you go.

One to one, not one to many

No two people run this the same way

A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.

  1. Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
  2. What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
  3. The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
  4. How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
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Why it sticks

Most courses stop at remembering

There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.

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The value

Why the companion is worth £70 a month

You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.

That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.

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