Self-Paced Courses in English

Deep Dive into Source of Funds (SoF) & Source of Wealth (SoW)
5 CPD
The course can be accredited by regulators and other bodies for 5 CPD Units. Source of Funds (SoF) and Source of Wealth (SoW) are two distinct yet related concepts in the context of anti-money laundering (AML) and customer due diligence (CDD). Both are essential...

Understanding Know Your Client (KYC), Customer Due Diligence (CDD) and their differences
5 CPD
The course can be accredited by regulators and other bodies for 5 CPD Units. ‘Know your customer’ (KYC) is a systematic process that obliged entities need to carry out to identify and verify the potential customer's identity...

Introduction to Wealth Management – Part II
5 CPD
The course can be accredited by regulators and other bodies for 5 CPD Units. This course explains basic financial mathematics including the Simple and Compound Interest, the formula of the future value of an amount invested now at a given rate of interest, the...

Introduction to Wealth Management – Part I
5 CPD
The course can be accredited by regulators and other bodies for 5 CPD Units. This course explains the meaning of “Wealth Management”, “Family Offices” and why someone may need a “Family Office”. It elaborates on the meaning of “Advising Clients”, the investor types and...

Valuation Methods for Stocks and Bonds
5 CPD
The course can be accredited by regulators and other bodies for 5 CPD Units. This course explains the valuation methods for Stocks and Bonds and elaborates on Bond features, Coupon Rates and Interest Rates. As a financial instrument, a Bond represents...

Best Execution, Unfair Practices, and Money Laundering
5 CPD
The course can be accredited by regulators and other bodies for 5 CPD Units. This course explains the definition of “Best Execution” and elaborates on Articles 27 and 28 of Directive 2014/65/EU. It also provides a number of Questions and Answers on Best Execution...

Real Estate ML/TF risk and the most common ways criminals use real estate to launder money (Typologies)
5 CPD
The course can be accredited by regulators and other bodies for 5 CPD Units. This course explains the money laundering risks in the real estate sector. Real estate sector has high ML risks, however, industry players often fail to...

GDPR from a staff awareness perspective
5 CPD
The course can be accredited by regulators and other bodies for 5 CPD Units. This course describes in brief the key provisions and requirements of the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR) and provides an explanation regarding the obligation of a company that processes...

Money laundering – RBA – Risk Assessment & Risk Mitigation in the real estate sector
7 CPD
The course can be accredited by regulators and other bodies for 7 CPD Units. Real estate sector has been always attractive to money launderers because it facilitates the integration of criminals’ ill-gotten proceeds through...

Board of Directors and the Senior Management of CIFs
5 CPD
The course can be accredited by regulators and other bodies for 5 CPD Units. The management body of an investment firm should ensure a suitable and transparent organisational and operational structure for that investment firm and should have a written...

Organizational Requirements of CIFs
15 CPD
The course can be accredited by regulators and other bodies for 15 CPD Units. This course explains the conditions that an applicant for CIF authorization should satisfy to obtain CySEC’s authorization to operate as a CIF and the requirements that a CIF should comply with in order to provide investment services and/or...

Market Abuse, Recommendations and Best Execution
5 CPD
The course can be accredited by regulators and other bodies for 5 CPD Units. This course describes in brief the Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) and explains why a MAR is needed. The Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of...

Risk Management in the Funds’ industry – A practical approach
5 CPD
The course can be accredited by regulators and other bodies for 5 CPD Units. This course provides an introduction to UCITS, describing the allowable investments, the UCITS risk and risk limits, the stress testing, the Risk Management function and refers to...

Portfolio Management Strategies: Part II
5 CPD
The course can be accredited by regulators and other bodies for 5 CPD Units. This course provides a brief description of the AIFM Law on Portfolio Management and describes in detail the Global Macro Strategy. A Global Macro Strategy is a hedge fund or...

Portfolio Management Strategies: Part I
5 CPD
The course can be accredited by regulators and other bodies for 5 CPD Units. This course provides a brief introduction of the AIF regulatory framework and explains in brief the different AIF Categories, including the Funds of Funds, Real Estate...

Marketing Compliance for UCITS and AIFs
5 CPD
The course can be accredited by regulators and other bodies for 5 CPD Units.This course provides an introduction to UCITS, describing the allowable investments, the UCITS risk and risk limits, the stress testing, the Risk Management function and refers...

The AIFM Legislation: Administration, Operations, and Governance
5 CPD
The course can be accredited by regulators and other bodies for 5 CPD Units.This course explains in general the AIF regulatory framework, the different AIF Categories and legal forms and the various investment rules and restrictions of AIFs. It describes the AIF governance...

Best Execution: Policy, Arrangements, Application, Assessment
10 CPD
The course can be accredited by regulators and other bodies for 10 CPD Units.This course explains the concept of best execution and how investment firms can comply with their best execution obligations...

Copy Trading, Market Abuse, Compliance, and EMIR Refit
5 CPD
The course can be accredited by regulators and other bodies for 5 CPD Units. This course explains the ancillary service of Investment Research and Financial Analysis. Investment research is an ancillary service, i.e. “providing necessary support to the primary activities or...

Governance, Custody, Reporting, Prospectus, and Marketing in Alternative Investment Funds
5 CPD
The course can be accredited by regulators and other bodies for 5 CPD Units.This course explains the different categories of a Fund (Alternative Investment Fund [AIF], Alternative Investment Fund with Limited Number...