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FCI Tradecraft Academy

Course Description

We offer a six-week intensive training course designed to equip students with skills in financial crimes investigation. The curriculum focuses on practical application of three primary "hard" skills: Online research, financial spreadsheet analysis, and report writing.  Each skill is honed towards conducting Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Fraud, and/ or Due Diligence investigations. Students learn through a combination of lectures, quizzes, case studies, and practical exercises. Successful graduates will produce actionable, risk-based, financial crimes intelligence reporting useful to all types of Financial Institutions (FI) and FinTech companies.

Curriculum Overview

Hard Skills

How to do the job, practical tactical activity.

Open-Source Intelligence Research

Privacy is dead. Who can you find, and what do we know about them?

Financial Spreadsheet Manipulation and Analysis

Sort, Filter, Colorize, Pivot, Chart, Formulate, and Identify Patterns

Documentation, Note and Report Writing

What did you do? What did you see? What does it mean? Screenshot it.


Financial Crime Knowledge

Theory and deeper technical knowledge about finance.

Intro to Money, Finance, and Financial Crime

From Cowrie Shells to Crypto, and from the first Silk Road to 2.0.

How Businesses and People Move Money

Wires, Peer2Peer, Checks and Bearer Bonds, Oh MY!

How Criminals and Terrorists Abuse the System

Hawala, Trade-Based Money Laundering, Complex Ownership, Tax Havens.


Practical Exercises and Legal Overview

Putting it all together. Time to 'Run".

Mock Investigations

Practical exercises to hone skills.

High Risk Business Reviews

What does right look like? How to spot a fake.

Laws, Regulators, Law Enforcement and Public-Private Partnership

US Legal Framework for Fraud and AML. How we help the true fight against crime. How to partner with public entities and win the day.


Public-Private Transition and Career Success

As-needed and on-demand. Support and coaching for individual development.

Culture: Corporate Bearing and Civilian Professionalism

Modern workplace norms, soft skills, attire and language.

Resumes, Job Searching, and Interviewing

Good resume tips and habits. How and where to search for suitable positions. Interview tips and role-play.

Career Growth and Compensation Negotiation

Paths to accomplishing career goals, how to get paid appropriately.

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