The Complete and Ultimate Guide to Know Your Client (KYC)

Learn the entire in-depth process of Know Your Client (KYC) - Basic to Advanced - Updated 2025

Created by: The Elite Compliance Group
Compliance Specialist - Financial Sector

What Will I Learn?

• Obtain a Certificate of Completion issued by The Elite Compliance Group
• What is Know Your Client? - KYC Concepts
• Entity Types - Natural Person, Government and State Owned Entity (SOE), Recognized Regulated Entity, Recognized Listed Entity, SPV, PIV, CIS, Trusts & more.
• Determining Client Risk Rating and Due Diligence Level - Risk Types, Due Diligence Types, Per Se and Additional Risk Factors
• Client Due Diligence - Identification, Verification, Plausibility, Validation
• Identifying and Understanding the Client - Nature of Business, Source of Funds, Source of Wealth, CSMs, Ownership and Ultimate Beneficial Owners & more
• Name List Screening (NLS), Politically Exposed Persons (PEP)
• Adoptions, Extensions and Reviews (NCA, RR, EDR, CDD, EDD) and Exit Protocol (Offboarding)

Requirements

• Previous level of knowledge can help completing the course more quickly, although it is not necessary since this is a full course on the end to end KYC process, basic to advanced.

Target audience

• Regulatory Compliance
• Compliance Analysts
• Compliance Managers
• KYC Analysts / Know Your Client Analysts
• KYC Managers
• AML/TF (Anti Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) Analysts
• AML/TF Managers
• Corporate KYC/AML Analysts
• Onboarding Analysts
• Anyone in the financial compliance sector (private companies, regulated or non-regulated companies, banking, real estate, lawyers, or public sector employees).