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Your results

Find the role that fits you.

Learn how a bank works from the inside and what each role really involves.

Walk into interviews prepared.

Discuss compliance like someone who will be trusted to do the job.

Job-ready from day one.

Build the competence to make a positive impact fast.

Unique approach

Hands-on and practical.

Skills and strategies you can use the next day.

Built with compliance leaders and hiring managers from leading banks and fintechs.

Designed around what they want a new hire to know.

The German regulatory landscape, in English.

The regulatory structure, the key institutions, and how supervision works.

What you learn

A three-day bootcamp, from how a bank works to a realistic compliance task worked start to finish.

1

The structure of a bank and the regulatory landscape

How a bank is built and how to operate inside it, plus the full customer lifecycle from account opening to closure. The supervisory bodies and required licences, the three lines of defense, and the bank's departments and their roles.

2

Anti-financial crime (GwG and AuAs)

Money laundering, terrorist financing, fraud, sanctions, bribery, KYC, customer risk ratings, transaction monitoring, investigations, suspicious activity reports, risk analysis, monitoring plan, plans and controls testing.

3

Investment compliance (MiFID II/MiFIR, WpHG, MaComp)

Client categorisation, product governance and target market, appropriateness and suitability, marketing rules, pre- and post-trade disclosures, best execution, transaction reporting, custody and client-asset protection, corporate actions, conflicts of interest, inducements, market abuse, compliance risk analysis, monitoring plans, assurance reviews.

4

Mock exercises

Learn the general approach that works for most compliance tasks. Then apply the approach to exercises across AFC, investment compliance, and assurance to get job-ready.

The format

~10
small live cohort
Live
online, cameras on
English
for an international audience
Real tasks
hands-on practice

Your trainer

Tessa Ventzke. Compliance expert, lecturer, and trainer.
20 years experience in banking and compliance in Germany and the USA.
Trade Republic, HSBC, TARGOBANK / Citibank, Ameriprise / American Express.
Juris Doctor, SMU Law School, born and raised in Berlin.

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Questions

Do I need banking experience?

No. It's for anyone without banking experience yet, or who wants a broader foundation, and for specialists looking to widen theirs.

Is it live or recorded?

Live and online, in real time, with cameras on.

I'm German. Is this course for me?

Yes. It teaches the German market in English. It's designed for an international audience that includes English-speaking Germans. English is the working language at many fintechs and established banks.

I have a degree already. Is this too basic?

The course is designed for recent graduates. It teaches the practical application of how the rules actually work day to day inside a bank.

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