Review: Advanced Certified AML Specialist - Audit / CAMS-Audit
Ian Messenger
In 2021, due to the COVID-19 global pandemic restricting in-person events or in an effort to broaden access to the certification (I’m not sure which, or both, or neither), ACAMS launched an exam-based version of their advanced audit certification, the Advanced Certified AML Specialist - Audit or CAMS-Audit.
Previously the CAMS-Audit certification involved a 3-day in-person workshop and a white paper in order to achieve the certification. Much to my frustration these workshops - and those for the other in-person advanced certifications - were rarely / never offered in Canada. The associated costs of attending such a workshop in the US made undertaking the certification not possible. So, whatever their motivation, kudos to ACAMS for producing an exam-based version.
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