The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
Illustrative: capital flows between financial centres, between generated places
Risk Academy, led by the Nexus Consortium · Finance and Economics
Financial crime and fraud covers money laundering, terrorist financing, sanctions evasion, fraud and scams, identity fraud and cyber-enabled financial crime, and the risk-based controls that detect and prevent them.
The model
From a transaction to a suspicious activity report: base rates and alert precision
DataModelGateDecisionStandard it teachesStandard it relies onNeighbouring discipline
The model From a transaction to a suspicious activity report: base rates and alert precision
The subtopics its courses and labs teach.
Courses in development extend the scope to one further subject: Anti-money laundering and sanctions controls.
For compliance officers, investigators, analysts and policy staff who need to understand how illicit money moves through the financial system and what the controls can and cannot detect.
Each method is listed with what it assumes and where it fails.
Bodies and standards are named so learners can find and apply their published work; the Academy teaches their use and links to the publisher, and no affiliation is implied.
Financial crime and fraud's own model, as a live chart: move each parameter and read how the outputs respond.
Search any place or open the world; the layers and generators follow financial crime and fraud on the planet map, the globe and in 3D.
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The Nexus Standards the discipline teaches toward, grouped by master standard, with the disciplines that teach each.
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Open scholarly sources searched with the subject terms of Financial crime and fraud.
Search termsFinancial crime and fraud; Money laundering; Terrorist financing; Sanctions compliance; Fraud and scams; Identity fraudDerived from the Risk Academy page on Financial crime and fraud.
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Research and preprints as they are published, by discipline, with the faculty's other tools.
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From the Academy's risk taxonomy: the discipline's own entries and those of its primary courses, with how many courses teach each.
Recent developments in financial crime and fraud, each with its source; sources checked on 16 October 2026.
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Start with Levi, then Financial Action Task Force, then Pol.
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Open courses in connected disciplines teach the methods this discipline will build on.