Self-Paced
Continuous Professional Development (CPD) Courses
Marketing Communication in AIF, AIFLNP and UCITS Industry
5 CPD
The course can be accredited by regulators and other bodies for 5 CPD Units. This course describes in detail the key conditions for the marketing of Units of Undertakings of Collective Investments (UCIs) in Cyprus [AIF, AILNP, RAIF and UCITS]. Marketing is essential in the...
Understanding the role, responsibilities and organizational requirements of the Regulatory Compliance Function
5 CPD
The course can be accredited by regulators and other bodies for 5 CPD Units. This course explains the duties and responsibilities as well...
In depth analysis of Customer Acceptance Policy & Client onboarding
5 CPD
The course can be accredited by regulators and other bodies for 5 CPD Units. This course explains and analyses the customer onboarding process as well as the scope, basic principles and the basic objectives of the...
Internal Organisation and Governance of Electronic Money Institutions and Payment Institutions and Risk Analysis of their operations
5 CPD
The course can be accredited by regulators and other bodies for 5 CPD Units. This course explains the requirements relating to the development...
Legal framework that regulates the activities of EMIs and PIs and the main risks for the business operations of those financial institutions
5 CPD
The course can be accredited by regulators and other bodies for 5 CPD Units. This course provides an...
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...
