CARCI Certified Crypto Financial Crime Compliance Specialist (CFCCS)

This course focuses on the prevention and detection of financial crimes within the crypto industry. It equips participants with the tools and techniques needed to ensure compliance with anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorism financing (CTF) regulations, safeguarding against financial crime in the crypto space.

  • 30-40 hours

    Online study time

  • 2,5 hours

    Exam Time

  • 80-100 hours

    Recommended total study time

  • 150 Questions

    Exam

    About Crypto FinCrime Compliance
    Course

    Crypto was born borderless, financial crime followed quickly and regulators weren’t far behind. This course traces that evolution, starting from the moment global bodies like the FATF first extended their standards to crypto assets.


    Because AML/CFT became the earliest and most developed pillar of crypto regulation, the field now benefits from clear guidance, established industry practice, and well-defined typologies.

    Across nine modules, the course grounds learners in blockchain fundamentals, walks through modern AML laws, explores crypto-enabled crime, and unpacks the tools, frameworks, and red-flags that shape today’s compliance expectations. It’s designed to give a practical, real-world understanding of how financial crime risks emerge, and how effective, modern compliance teams address them.

    By the end of the course, you’ll have a clear, confident grasp of how financial crime intersects with crypto and how to build controls that actually work in practice.

    Structure of Crypto FinCrime Compliance Course

    Blockchain Fundamentals

    Provides a practical 101 on how blockchains work, key terminology, concepts and the features that make crypto markets unique. 

    Crypto Regulation 1.0: Anti-Money Laundering Laws

    Gives a clear refresher on the origins of AML laws, how the FATF standards evolved, and when they were first applied to crypto, shaping today’s global compliance expectations.

    Crypto-Enabled Crimes

    Covers major crime categories and their subtypes, and shows how crypto’s attributes became tools for both new and traditional criminal activity.

    Money Laundering in Crypto: Typologies

    Explains ML as a derivative crime, compares traditional and crypto-specific typologies, and explores risk venues and actors that enable large-scale money laundering.

    Designing an AML Framework and Building Compliance Culture

    Walks through creating a full AML programme: business-wide risk assessment, policies and procedures, controls design, governance, and ongoing review.

    Know-Your-Customer: Building the Foundation of Compliance

    Breaks down the core layers of global AML due diligence: off-chain verification, sanctions, PEP and adverse-media screenings, and on-chain wallet and activity checks.

    Catching Signals: Transaction Monitoring & SAR Reporting in Crypto

    Covers how to design a crypto TM framework: red flags, rule logic, alert generation, risk, investigative steps, and escalation into SAR reporting.

    Programmable Compliance

    Explores how compliance functions can be automated or built directly into protocols. from smart-contract controls to real-time supervisory visibility.

    Travel Rule

    Explains how the traditional banking Travel Rule was adapted to crypto, how information must flow between VASPs, and what changed with the FATF’s 2025 updates.