AML Refresher Training Courses for 2025/6

Is every member of your law firm current with their AML training?

If not, you need our professional AML refresher training. Engaging, effective training to bring your team's compliance knowledge up to date.

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Our ‘Comprehensive Refresher’ Training Course for AML

Perhaps the most popular of our AML training courses, is our ‘Comprehensive Refresher’.

Delivered in person at your premises (or live in real-time, online in a private session) this ‘seriously interactive’ course is designed for all areas of law and all roles.

Tailored uniquely to your firm, and with workshop elements promoting lively discussion, it provides a robust overview of the must-know everyday risks and controls, including how to maintain evidence of compliance and what to do in the event of a concern.

Critically, and as the SRA is making very clear: AML and financial crime responsibilities and controls apply to all areas of law; not just conveyancing, trusts and company commercial work.

Syllabus

Critically, the session is designed to flow as story, weaving the layers of information to support understanding of context as well as spotlighting relevancy to the cohort in the room.

Essential Knowledge Area 1: Establishing the Backdrop

What is Tax Evasion / Money Laundering / Terrorist Financing
Applicable laws and POCA
Key applicable SRA regulations (and the current outlook of the SRA)
(Lexcel expectations, if applicable to your firm)
Reference (throughout) to the firm’s office manual/documented controls for AML
An overview of the requirements of key AML regulations in ‘everyday terms’
Understanding individual responsibilities
Penalties for individuals and for the firm

Essential Knowledge Area 2: How To Comply and Maintaining Evidence

Types of CDD (eg. ‘Simplified’, ‘Regular’, Enhanced’.)
AML client and matter risk assessments
Understanding Source of Wealth versus Source of Funds
Beneficial Owners (‘UBO’) and Persons of Significant Control (‘PSC’)
Acceptable ID evidence and conducting checks on ID (individuals and entities)
Company/Trust/Charity/Entity CDD
UK-based geographical risks
The application of electronic checks
Internal client referrals (eg. A matrimonial client also becomes a conveyancing client)
Maintaining evidence on matter files and ongoing monitoring

Essential Knowledge Area 3: Identifying and Dealing With Elevated Risk

When to carryout EDD
Red flags, sanctions, PEPs, high-risk countries and underground banking
Dealing with overseas clients
Complex business structures and Trusts and charities

Essential Knowledge Area 4: Dealing With Suspicions

Who to raise concerns with
Making reports and appropriate record retention
professional privilege
Tipping off

Get in touch for bespoke AML refresher training pricing information

Our pricing is transparent and includes content tailoring, certificate of attendance and PDF delegate materials, VAT and any travel costs and expenses.

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Training Materials

We provide PDF copies of the slides in advance of sessions, that you can print and hand to your staff. Our training materials include space so that attendees can record notes during the live sessions.

Certified AML Refresher Training

All delegates will receive a printable PDF certificate of attendance for their training and competency records.

Why Choose PDA Legal?

UK law firms choose PDA legal as their specialist AML training provider for a number of reasons. Here are just a few most popular reasons:

All training is individually tailored to your specific needs. We don’t provide “off the shelf” training which may leave your team with knowledge gaps.
As each training course is private and dedicated for your organisation so that your team can freely ask questions in complete confidence in a nurturing training environment.
We are pleased to share our insight from more than two decades of experience in the legal sector, where we have supported more than 500 legal organisations.
Has worked with The Law Society on Lexcel and has authored articles and spoken at national Law Society events on key compliance topics.
We operate, wherever possible, on a fixed price model and project scheduling.
We offer a free, no obligation initial consultation to discuss your training requirements in detail.

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PDA Legal AML Training FAQs

How often should training be renewed?

AML legislation is regularly updated as Government policy attempts to keep up with changes and innovation in criminal activities. Even as we type this (Feb 2024), there is a new amendment to the legislation.

Therefore, just as initial training is important, both for existing and new team members, so too is regular refresher training; otherwise, you risk falling foul of changes in the legal requirements unnecessarily.

Unfortunately, the legislation is not prescriptive as to how often refresher training should occur. As a result, we recommend that you check-in with us each year, and we provide you with an honest view on whether or not you should undergo refresher training, either for the whole team, or whether only certain members of the team would benefit sufficiently to achieve a worthwhile ROI and address any knowledge gaps in terms of compliance.

What Our Clients Have to Say…

“Our team had never been so energised about AML as it was after PDA’s training.”

“PDA’s AML trainer had a great rapport with our team, which made the topic so much more accessible.”

“We’re already noticing the improvements in our AML controls following PDA’s staff training session.”

“PDA’s AML training is anything but dull. It brought the subject to life with real examples.”

“I thought that the speaker did a super job at condensing a lot of information into a focused and informative presentation.”

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