Advanced KYC and Customer Due Diligence Course

Name: Advanced KYC and Customer Due Diligence Training Course
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Advanced risk-based KYC, customer due diligence, beneficial ownership, risk rating, review, and quality assurance

Advanced KYC and Customer Due Diligence Course

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Duration: 1 Week
Format: Classroom
Cities: Munich, Paris, Abu Dhabi, Istanbul, Porto, Amsterdam and more
Next session: 2 – 6 November 2026, Munich
Average fee: 5,750 €

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Advanced KYC and Customer Due Diligence Training Course

Overview

Advanced KYC and Customer Due Diligence Training Course is a one-week advanced course for professionals who manage customer onboarding, review, or assurance and leave with a KYC Operating Standard, Customer Risk Rating and Quality Assurance Pack. The course connects identity verification, beneficial ownership, relationship purpose, customer risk rating, enhanced due diligence, periodic review, data quality, and escalation. Agile Leaders Training Center frames KYC decisions through risk-based evidence, documented judgment, and controlled workflows.

Who Should Attend

Teams responsible for customer onboarding and identity verification
Teams responsible for customer due diligence and beneficial ownership review
Teams responsible for AML, financial-crime, and compliance operations
Teams responsible for customer risk rating and enhanced due diligence
Teams responsible for KYC quality assurance, testing, and remediation
Teams responsible for internal audit, risk governance, and control oversight

The course assumes participants already review customer records or compliance controls and leaves out introductory AML concepts and transaction-monitoring model development.

Departments and Industries

The course supports departments and industries that establish, maintain, or assure customer relationships.

Banking, payments, insurance, investment, and lending operations
Fintech, digital platforms, telecommunications, and e-commerce teams
Professional services, real estate, and trust or company service functions
Compliance, legal, onboarding, operations, and customer-service departments
Risk, quality assurance, data governance, and internal audit functions

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

Apply risk-based KYC requirements to customer onboarding and review
Analyze ownership, control, and beneficial-owner evidence
Build a customer risk rating method with documented rationale
Evaluate enhanced due diligence and escalation decisions
Prioritize periodic and event-driven customer file reviews
Use quality assurance findings to improve KYC controls and data

Course Agenda

Day 1: KYC Governance and Customer Acceptance

KYC Policy Architecture and Three-Lines Responsibility Map
Customer Acceptance Criteria and Prohibited-Relationship Decision Tree
Risk-Based Customer Due Diligence Framework
Customer Lifecycle Map and Control Ownership Matrix
KYC Operating Standard and Evidence Requirements

Day 2: Identity and Beneficial Ownership

Customer Identification and Independent Verification Method
Legal-Person Ownership and Control Structure Map
Beneficial Owner Identification and Verification Checklist
Authorized Representative and Acting-on-Behalf-of Controls
Relationship Purpose, Expected Activity, and Customer Profile Template

Day 3: Risk Rating and Enhanced Due Diligence

Customer Risk Factor Taxonomy and Scoring Model
Risk Rating Calibration, Overrides, and Approval Controls
Politically Exposed Person Assessment and Escalation Workflow
Source of Funds and Source of Wealth Evidence Matrix
Enhanced Due Diligence Case File and Decision Record

Day 4: Ongoing Review and Quality Control

Periodic Review Schedule and Risk-Based Frequency Method
Event-Driven KYC Refresh Trigger Library
Ongoing Due Diligence and Transaction-Monitoring Interface
KYC Data Quality Rules, Exception Queue, and Remediation Plan
KYC Quality Assurance Sampling and Defect Taxonomy

Day 5: KYC Casework and Control Practice

Exercise: Individual and Legal-Entity Onboarding File Review
Exercise: Beneficial Ownership and Control Chain Analysis
Exercise: Customer Risk Rating and Enhanced Due Diligence Decision
Exercise: KYC Quality Assurance Findings and Remediation Priorities
Capstone Exercise: KYC Operating Standard, Customer Risk Rating and Quality Assurance Pack

Practical Exercises

The course uses suggested activities that convert customer evidence into controlled KYC decisions.

Suggested activity: map a legal entity's ownership, control, authorized representatives, and beneficial owners.
Suggested activity: score a customer using product, channel, geography, ownership, activity, and behavior risk factors.
Suggested activity: document an enhanced due diligence decision using source-of-funds and source-of-wealth evidence.
Suggested activity: sample KYC files, classify defects, identify root causes, and prioritize remediation actions.

FAQs

Who is the Advanced KYC and Customer Due Diligence Course for, and what does it assume?

The course suits onboarding, compliance, financial-crime, operations, risk, assurance, and audit professionals. It assumes experience with customer files or controls and does not begin with introductory AML terminology.

How does advanced KYC differ from an introductory AML course?

Advanced KYC focuses on operating design, ownership analysis, customer risk rating, enhanced due diligence, review triggers, data quality, and assurance, while an introductory AML course covers a wider foundation of financial-crime concepts.

How should beneficial ownership be assessed in customer due diligence?

Beneficial ownership should be assessed by understanding the legal entity's ownership and control structure, identifying relevant natural persons, verifying evidence through reliable sources, and documenting unresolved complexity or escalation.

How does a customer risk rating support risk-based KYC?

A customer risk rating combines relevant customer, product, service, channel, activity, ownership, and geographic factors to determine due diligence depth, approval level, review frequency, and monitoring expectations.

Conclusion

The course links customer evidence, risk judgment, workflow controls, and assurance across the KYC lifecycle. Participants take back a KYC Operating Standard, Customer Risk Rating and Quality Assurance Pack that clarifies requirements, decisions, ownership, review triggers, and defects. The work product supports consistent onboarding, risk-based review, escalation, and remediation.

credits: 5 credit per day

Course Mode: full-time

Provider: Agile Leaders Training Center

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Frequently asked questions

What does this course cover?

Overview Advanced KYC and Customer Due Diligence Training Course is a one-week advanced course for professionals who manage customer onboarding, review, or assurance and leave with a KYC Operating Standard, Customer Risk Rating and Quality Assurance Pack. The course connects identity verification, beneficial ownership, relationship purpose, customer risk…

Are training dates available?

Yes. Available dates and destinations are listed in the course dates section on this page.

How can I register?

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Can I download the course brochure?

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Advanced KYC and Customer Due Diligence Course