Right-size customer due diligence to actual risk and trace ultimate beneficial ownership and control through layered, opaque corporate structures — overriding under-rated automated scores, demanding source-of-wealth evidence where it matters, and treating an unresolved UBO as a red flag rather than a paperwork gap.
Built for 2026, the year of the EU AML Single Rulebook, the new AMLA authority and central beneficial-ownership registers under regulatory pressure for accuracy. Part of the Financial Crime / Compliance Track and building directly on 'Transaction Monitoring & SAR Writing', this course moves you from collecting documents to making defensible diligence judgments. Across four phases — engage with the trap of uniform checks, learn the CDD/EDD/UBO models, practise judgment on realistic cases (the Halberg onboarding, the Novitas ownership chain, the source-of-wealth that didn't add up, the nominee-director shell), then prove it under challenge — you build risk-based diligence, beneficial-ownership tracing, source-of-funds-vs-wealth discrimination and the nerve to decline when control can't be established.
Hook into why uniform checks fail in both directions, and surface where your own diligence judgment actually sits today.
Learn the models behind effective diligence: the CDD/EDD triggers, the beneficial-ownership and control concepts, and the source-of-funds-vs-wealth vocabulary that decides what evidence you demand.
Apply the judgment with feedback across the whole topic: read an onboarding profile, force the EDD call, trace a layered ownership chain in sequence, test a source-of-wealth claim, and defend a diligence read in writing.
Prove the judgment: defend a decline recommendation under challenge, pass the diligence knowledge gate, then attest to your CDD/EDD/UBO obligations and commit to a concrete habit.
Book a demo and we'll run "CDD, EDD & Beneficial Ownership: Right-Sizing Diligence and Unmasking Control" end to end on your people — the AI asks, your people think — or point the Forge at your own material instead (a pre-pilot capability preview).