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GC-403 · Professional course

Illicit Financial Flows Measurement, Analysis and Cross-Border Financial Crime Risks

Illicit financial flows (IFFs) often transcend national borders and may involve complex combinations of money laundering, corruption, tax crime, trade-related abuse, fraud, trafficking and other predicate offences.

5 days Classroom, online or in-house QR-verified certificate Next intake 19 Oct 2026

Course overview

Illicit financial flows (IFFs) often transcend national borders and may involve complex combinations of money laundering, corruption, tax crime, trade-related abuse, fraud, trafficking and other predicate offences. Understanding these flows requires the integration of financial, trade, customs, tax, corporate and law-enforcement information.

This Illicit Financial Flows Measurement, Analysis and Cross-Border Financial Crime Risks course provides participants with practical methodologies for understanding, measuring and analysing illicit financial flows and associated cross-border financial crime risks.

The programme examines the drivers and channels of IFFs, trade and financial data, cross-border transaction analysis, trade misinvoicing concepts, capital movements, asset flows and the use of international cooperation mechanisms.

What you will be able to do

  • Explain the nature and drivers of illicit financial flows
  • Distinguish different forms and channels of IFFs
  • Identify financial, trade and other data relevant to IFF analysis
  • Apply approaches for measuring and estimating illicit financial flows
  • Analyse cross-border financial transactions
  • Identify trade-related financial crime indicators
  • Examine capital movements and offshore structures
  • Identify jurisdictional and sectoral vulnerabilities
  • Analyse cross-border financial crime networks
  • Develop IFF risk profiles
  • Integrate multiple datasets for IFF analysis
  • Produce analytical assessments of cross-border financial crime risks

Who should attend

  • Financial intelligence analysts
  • Strategic analysts
  • Tax investigators
  • Customs officers
  • Financial investigators
  • AML/CFT professionals
  • Economic and financial crime investigators
  • Central-bank and regulatory personnel
  • Policy and research officers
  • FIU personnel
  • Anti-corruption investigators
  • Trade and customs-risk professionals

Course outline

Day 1Understanding Illicit Financial Flows

Topics

  • Definition and conceptual approaches to IFFs
  • Drivers and enabling factors
  • Predicate offences generating illicit proceeds
  • Money laundering and IFFs
  • Corruption-related financial flows
  • Tax-related illicit flows
  • Trade-related illicit flows
  • Criminal markets
  • Cross-border movement of illicit funds
  • Financial and non-financial channels
  • IFF data sources
Day 2MEASURING AND ESTIMATING IFFs

Topics

  • Principles of IFF measurement
  • Direct and indirect measurement approaches
  • Financial-flow analysis
  • Trade-data analysis
  • Balance-of-payments information
  • Customs data
  • Tax and revenue information
  • Transaction-reporting data
  • Financial account information
  • Statistical estimation
  • Data limitations
  • Measurement uncertainty
  • Interpreting IFF estimates
Day 3Cross-Border Financial Analysis

Topics

  • International transaction analysis
  • Correspondent banking
  • Cross-border transfers
  • Remittance channels
  • Cash movements
  • Trade finance
  • Offshore financial structures
  • Jurisdictional risk
  • High-risk financial corridors
  • Beneficial ownership across jurisdictions
  • Cross-border corporate structures
  • Identifying suspicious international flows
Day 4Trade-Related and Cross-Border Financial Crime

Topics

  • Trade-based money laundering
  • Trade misinvoicing concepts
  • Over- and under-invoicing
  • False documentation
  • Phantom shipments
  • Multiple invoicing
  • Commodity and pricing analysis
  • Import and export data
  • Customs and financial-data comparison
  • Shell companies and trade intermediaries
  • Identifying high-risk trade corridors
  • Cross-border criminal networks
Day 5Iff Risk Assessment and Analytical Reporting

Topics

  • Developing IFF risk profiles
  • Sectoral analysis
  • Geographic analysis
  • Financial-flow visualisation
  • Cross-border network mapping
  • Identifying vulnerabilities
  • Developing threat indicators
  • Analytical findings
  • Policy and operational implications
  • International cooperation and information sharing
  • Developing IFF analytical reports
CapstoneParticipants analyse simulated trade, financial and cross-border transaction data and produce an IFF risk assessment.

Dates & fees

Full training calendar

Fees are per participant in US dollars and cover tuition, course materials and your certificate. Travel and accommodation are not included.

19Oct

Pretoria, South Africa

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19–23 Oct 2026 · 5 days
USD 1,500per participant · 5 days
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19Oct

Pretoria, South Africa

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19–30 Oct 2026 · 10 days
USD 3,000per participant · 10 days
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26Oct

Nairobi, Kenya

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26–30 Oct 2026 · 5 days
USD 1,500per participant · 5 days
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02Nov

Nairobi, Kenya

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2–6 Nov 2026 · 5 days
USD 1,500per participant · 5 days
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02Nov

Mombasa, Kenya

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2–13 Nov 2026 · 10 days
USD 3,000per participant · 10 days
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09Nov

Mombasa, Kenya

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9–13 Nov 2026 · 5 days
USD 1,500per participant · 5 days
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16Nov

Kampala, Uganda

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16–20 Nov 2026 · 5 days
USD 1,500per participant · 5 days
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16Nov

Kampala, Uganda

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16–27 Nov 2026 · 10 days
USD 3,000per participant · 10 days
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