Sumsub Academy, the free training arm of identity verification and compliance platform Sumsub, has relaunched its flagship course as AML Transaction Monitoring 2.0.
The programme was first introduced in January 2024 and has since become the Academy’s most popular offering, drawing more than 6,000 registrations. It has now been rebuilt to reflect shifting regulatory demands, new financial crime methods and the compliance technologies used to counter them.
The relaunch forms part of a broader expansion of the Academy’s reach across the financial crime sector. More than 10,000 professionals have enrolled over the past year, and 80% of graduates say they would recommend its courses to peers.
Every programme carries formal CPD accreditation, giving learners recognised credits alongside practical, end-to-end training in transaction monitoring.
The timing reflects mounting pressure on financial institutions. Sumsub’s own Identity Fraud Report 2025-2026 found that multi-step fraud attacks rose by 180% year-on-year, driven by criminals using AI tools and coordinated networks to get past conventional defences.
With fixed monitoring rules struggling to keep up, compliance teams are under growing pressure to sharpen their investigative approach and risk logic on an ongoing basis.
The updated course is delivered through a micro-learning structure of 21 sessions spread across five modules, covering the full transaction monitoring lifecycle: designing risk-based rules and scenarios, reviewing and prioritising alerts, running investigations into complex transaction behaviour, managing escalations and case files, and handling regulatory reporting.
Teaching is led by senior financial crime and compliance figures from across fintech, banking, crypto and risk consultancy, including Oonagh van den Berg of Virtual Risk Solutions, Aisling Twomey of Monzo, Vera Veldscholten of Vivid, Danny Santo of Mercuryo and Sumsub’s own Natalie Buraimoh. Case studies drawn from their direct experience are intended to give participants insights they can apply straight away in their compliance work.
Sumsub Head of AML Product Natalie Buraimoh said, “As financial crime methods evolve and regulatory scrutiny intensifies globally, compliance teams cannot rely on static monitoring rules or outdated AML/AFC programmes. To protect platforms effectively today, teams must build intelligent anti-financial crime frameworks, conduct thorough investigations, report suspicious activity in a timely manner and deliver defensible compliance decisions.
“This means moving from reactive detection to proactive prevention in order to make better risk decisions earlier in the customer journey. In this course, we show practitioners how to enhance their own frameworks by combining identity, behaviour, transaction data and contextual intelligence. We updated this course to equip practitioners with immediate knowledge and real-world tools that match the speed and complexity of modern financial crime.”
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