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How you’d get this certificate

  1. Zavmo teaches you. You learn the units one-to-one with an AI tutor, on your own work.
  2. You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
  3. The centre assesses, and Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment.

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01What it is

Specialist qualification – it takes a global view of transnational crime, illustrates practical defences and can be taken as a stand-alone qualification or as part of the Investment Operations Certificate (IOC) Combine it with a CISI regulatory exam to complete the full Certificate in Combating Financial Crime. You are exempt from the regulation paper if you have already achieved a regulatory paper through another route, such as the IOC Free CISI Student membership – become associated with a Chartered professional body and take advantage of an extensive range of benefits Exams available online via remote invigilation or at one of our global test centres

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. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work.

Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment. It does the teaching and the mapping. Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.

02The units

What each unit actually teaches you to do

Combating Financial Crime Real unit · Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment
This unit provides learners with knowledge of regulations and practices designed to combat financial crime, including money laundering and terrorist financing. You'll understand relevant legislation, such as the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, and the importance of Know Your Customer procedures and reporting requirements.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the regulations designed to combat financial crime within the financial services industry
  • Understand the practices employed to prevent and detect financial crime
  • Understand the reporting requirements related to suspected financial crime
UK Financial Regulation Real unit · Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment
You'll gain a detailed understanding of the UK financial services regulatory environment, including its structure, key bodies, and purpose. The unit covers legislation such as the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, the FCA Conduct of Business Sourcebook, and aspects of customer complaints and redress.

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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03The standards

The national standards these units are built against

What the job actually needs, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.

  • Advise and guide staff in your organisation on anti-money laundering and countering terrorist financing

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04Where it leads

The jobs these credits are mapped to

A qualification is never a dead end here. Each of these is a job record this qualification is a mapped route into.

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Where this can lead

Director of Financial Compliance

This role can lead to a board position as a non-executive director, independent consulting or expert witness work, or a head of regulatory affairs role overseeing relationships with regulators worldwide.

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05The credits

The credits, and who awards them

Level 3 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment rather than by Zavmo. 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 have covered and what is next.

What you would be collecting

Combating Financial CrimeUK Financial Regulation

Each one is a real unit registered against this qualification.

How you’d practise it

You don’t watch this. You do it.

You are not assessed on remembering this. You are assessed on applying it, analysing it, evaluating it and producing something. So that is what the practice is: projects, role play and your own live cases, with a tutor in the room.

The Practical Builder The Practical Builder · your make-it-real tutor Illustration
The Practical Builder Paste in the draft you have for “Combating Financial Crime”. Not a tidied one, the one you would actually send.
You It is mostly there. The recommendations section is thin.
The Practical Builder Thin is fine, vague is not. Take recommendation two and tell me who does what by when, then we will see if it survives.
The same lesson on the real thing: the conversation in the middle, the thinking ladder on the left, and the criteria each answer is evidencing on the right.
  • Draft the real one Create

    You do “Combating Financial Crime” on a real document of your own. Zavmo works on the draft you have to send anyway, so the coursework and the job are the same piece of work.

How you would learn this

One to one, on the work you already do

A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.

A lesson from Combating Financial Crime, one of this qualification's own units.

Combating Financial Crime Level 3

Applied to your work in any of these jobs

Which job do you mean?
Director of Financial ComplianceInternational Financial Compliance SpecialistCompliance SpecialistDirector of Financial Crime ComplianceBanking Compliance OfficerLead International Financial Compliance Specialist

This unit provides learners with knowledge of regulations and practices designed to combat financial crime, including money laundering and terrorist financing. Learners will understand relevant legislation, such as the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, and the importance of Know Your Customer procedures and reporting requirements.

How the thinking builds
  1. 1 Remember
  2. 2 Understand
  3. 3 Apply
  4. 4 Analyse
  5. 5 Evaluate
  6. 6 Create
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Your Plan Illustration

Built for CISI Level 3 Certificate in Combating Financial Crime

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

  1. Combating Financial Crime
  2. 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.

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