FinCrime Defence Workshops & Symposium

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Programme Overview

Financial crime includes money laundering, fraud & corruption, scams as well as cyber-enabled crimes. FinCrime is estimated to cost US$5.8trillion (6.7% of global GDP) with less than 1% recovered. There is also severe harm to societies in the form of trafficking, organized crime, environmental crimes and terrorism financing. Particularly in light of several high-profile money-laundering cases and other fraud cases in Singapore, Hong Kong and ASEAN, it is critical to bring together public and private sector players to build capabilities to prevent, detect, respond to FinCrime.

The FinCrime Defence Workshops & Symposium helps increase participants’ awareness of financial crimes that affect major financial centres, as well as measures to prevent and detect money laundering, dealing with asset forfeiture, detection of frauds & scams, understanding how new technologies and data have facilitated cross-border money flows which pose both opportunities and challenges in dealing with cross-border financial crimes issues.

This programme is taught by Faculty comprising seasoned industry leaders and practitioners, as well as select industry players to the table by way of guest speaker, panel and industry engagement session. The programme also features offsite visits, and extensive use of case studies.

Programme Curriculum

The FinCrime Defence Workshops & Symposium consists of the following 3 programmes:

Workshop: Money-Laundering, Frauds & Scams
FinCrime Defence Symposium
Workshop: Asset-Tracing & Recovery, Effectiveness & Outcomes

Programmes

Workshop: Money-Laundering, Frauds & Scams

This workshop equips participants with the knowledge and tools to combat financial crime. Covering critical areas such as money-laundering, source of wealth verification, customer due diligence, and transaction monitoring, the programme also addresses fraud and scam prevention, detection, and organised crime.

Participants will gain insights into the threats and harms posed by financial crimes—including drug trafficking, human trafficking, modern slavery, organ trafficking, and illegal wildlife trade—and learn effective response strategies to safeguard institutions and markets.

FinCrime Defence Symposium

This Forum will bring together senior leaders across Singapore and Asia from the financial industry, including both private and public sectors—banks and financial institutions, central banks, and financial services agencies—to engage in candid dialogue on emerging risks, enforcement, innovation, and institutional resilience.

Workshop: Asset-Tracing & Recovery, Effectiveness & Outcomes

The Asset Tracing & Recovery Programme provides participants with the expertise to identify and recover proceeds of financial crime across both fiat and digital assets. Leveraging new technologies and data-driven approaches, the programme explores advanced methods for prevention, detection, and asset tracing.

Participants will gain insights into national risk assessments, prioritisation of threats and harms, and learn how to evaluate effectiveness through FATF mutual evaluations and outcome measures. This comprehensive approach equips professionals to strengthen financial integrity and combat complex financial crimes globally.

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Who Should Attend

This programme, available by invitation only, is intended for leaders and high potential senior participants from Asian’s central banks, financial services regulators including law enforcement and financial intelligence units. The Workshop provides a high-trust, closed-door environment for enforcement, compliance, and regulatory leaders to build institutional capabilities across Asia. An interview may be requested.

Minimum Entry Requirements

Minimum English Language requirement (only if English was not the medium of instruction used at the highest qualification)

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Certification

Participants who successfully complete the programme will be awarded:

Fees and Funding

Certification
Modules	Full Fees (S$)	Fees after subsidies inclusive of 9% GST (With effect from 1 January 2024) (S$)
Before GST	After GST	Company-Sponsored	Company-Sponsored/Self Sponsored

Fees and Funding

Certification
Modules	Full Fees (S$)	Fees after subsidies inclusive of 9% GST (With effect from 1 January 2024) (S$)
Before GST	After GST	Singaporean Aged Below 40 / PR	Singaporean Aged 40 & Above

Fees and Funding

Certification
Modules	Fees after Subsidy (incl. of GST)	Fees after subsidies inclusive of 9% GST (With effect from 1 January 2024) (S$)

Certification
Category

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¹		Not Applicable

¹ For Singaporeans aged 40 and above, you are eligible to utilise the SkillsFuture Credit (Mid-Career) further to offset your course fee after the IBF subsidy.

² Fees shown are after IBF-STS funding assuming students meet the minimum academic standards outlined by IBF and are physically based in Singapore. The fees are also subject to IBF accreditation approval for all modules.

Fees and Funding

Certification
Modules	Full Fees (S$)	Fees after subsidies inclusive of 9% GST (With effect from 1 January 2024) (S$)
Before GST	After GST	Singaporean Aged Below 40 / PR Company Sponsored/Self Sponsored	Singaporean Aged 40 & Above Company Sponsored/Self Sponsored
Singaporean Aged Below 40 / PR
Company Sponsored/Self Sponsored
Singaporean Aged 40 & Above
Company Sponsored/Self Sponsored
Fees	4,128.00	4,500.00	7,798.00	8,500.00

Fees and Funding

Certification
Core Modules	Full Fees (S$)	Fees after subsidies inclusive of 9% GST (With effect from 1 January 2024) (S$)
Before GST		Singaporean Aged Below 40 / PR	Singaporean Aged 40 & Above
Company Sponsored/Self Sponsored	Company Sponsored/Self Sponsored

Fees and Funding

Fees and Funding
FinCrime Defence Workshops & Symposium	Single Workshop (S$)	Both Workshops (S$)
Before GST	After GST	Before GST	After GST
Fees	4,128.00	4,500.00	7,798.00	8,500.00

Note:

Fee for the FinCrime Symposium is included in the fee for both workshops.

The information above is correct at the time of publication. Wealth Management Institute reserves the right to amend the fees and/or terms and conditions as appropriate.

In addition to Course Fees, each participant will also be charged a non-refundable and non-claimable application fee of S$85 (including GST).

This programme is pending accreditation by the Institute of Banking and Finance (IBF). When accredited, Singaporeans and Permanent Residents will be eligible for funding support of up to 70% course fee subsidy under the IBF Standards Training Scheme (IBF-STS).

Fees shown are after IBF-STS funding. Subsidised fees apply upon participants’ successful completion of the programme, which includes (i) fulfilling minimum attendance requirements and (ii) passing all relevant assessments.

Subsidies are subject to change by IBF and fees will be adjusted based on prevailing funding rates. Click here to read more about funding support for IBF-STS, and terms & conditions governing registration, payment, cancellation, deferment and no-show.

The information above is correct at the time of publication. Wealth Management Institute reserves the right to amend the fees and/or terms and conditions as appropriate.