ACAMS - ACAMS Certified Know Your Customer Associate (CKYCA) Certification

Overview

This accelerated ACAMS Certified Know Your Customer Associate (CKYCA) Certification exam-based certification equips organizations with the means to ensure their front line and operations teams
meet the core competencies involved with Know Your Customer (KYC) and Customer Due Diligence (CDD) activities.
CKYCA will set you apart by certifying your role, based on a new global benchmark developed by the association that created CAMS, the gold standard in anti-money laundering compliance. ACAMS’ mission is to prevent financial crime, and KYC/CDD is among the most important undertakings in this endeavour. By ensuring these early career professionals have demonstrated essential competencies in customer onboarding, those certified with CKYCA can help prevent potential illicit actors from accessing an institution’s services. We believe we can assist institutions to reduce financial crime risks by outlining what personnel in KYC/CDD roles should know, by equipping them with relevant training materials, and by enabling them to demonstrate their competency

In just 2 days, you’ll learn learn how to perform fundamental KYC/CDD/EDD activities, and when to escalate cases. You’ll also learn how to:

• Ensure your front line and operations teams meet the core competencies involved with know your customer (KYC)
• Customer due diligence (CDD), and enhanced due diligence (EDD) activities.
• Identify and verify the customer
• Screen the customer
• Rate the customer’s risk
• Perform Enhanced Due Diligence
• Create a customer profile

At the end of this course, you’ll sit the ACAMS exam, and achieve your ACAMS Certified Know Your Customer Associate (CKYCA) Certification certification. Through Firebrand’s Lecture | Lab | Review methodology, you’ll get certified at twice the speed of the traditional training and get access to courseware, learn from certified instructors, and train in a distraction-free environment.

Audience

• This CKYCA course is ideal for:
• Those responsible for onboarding clients, conducting periodic reviews, and updating customer profiles.
• The Certified Know Your Customer Associate Certification is ideal for early career professionals who are working in, or wish to work in, KYC/CDD roles:
• KYC Analyst
• KYC/CDD Analyst
• KYC Onboarding Analyst
• KYC Representative
• KYC Team Lead
• Client/Customer Onboarding Analyst
• Client/Customer Onboarding Specialist
• AML Prevention Representative