Training & workshops
Compliance stands or falls with people who recognise risk and know what to do next. Our sessions are interactive, current and built on real cases — in Dutch or English.
Article 35 of the Dutch AML Act (Wwft) requires institutions to ensure staff know the Act and receive periodic training so they can recognise unusual transactions and perform customer due diligence properly. The Act specifies no frequency, no format and no minimum number of hours. What supervisors do expect: that you can explain why your approach fits your risks, and that you can show who was trained on what, and when.
At a glance
| Duration | Half day (3 hours) or full day (6 hours); board sessions 90 minutes |
| Format | In-company on site or online; always live, never recorded e-learning |
| Group size | 8–15 participants for real interaction; larger groups by arrangement |
| Language | Dutch or English |
| Casework | Anonymised files from your own practice, plus current enforcement cases |
| Evidence | Attendance list, programme with duration and topics, individual certificates |
| Lead time | Usually 3–4 weeks from intake to delivery |
| Investment | Indicatively €1,850–€3,950 per session, depending on format and preparation (excl. VAT) |
Programmes
- AML fundamentals: the Dutch framework, customer due diligence, unusual transactions and the reporting obligation — tailored to your sector and your supervisor.
- Deep dives: UBOs and complex structures, politically exposed persons, high-risk countries, transaction monitoring and the tipping-off prohibition.
- Sanctions training: the sanctions landscape (UN, EU, national), screening, the 50% rule, freezing and reporting, and recognising circumvention.
- Board sessions: supervisory expectations, management responsibility and what went wrong in recent enforcement cases. See also our behavioural training for boards.
- Front-line awareness: recognising financial crime in daily work, and knowing who to escalate to.
- Tailored tracks: learning paths combining live sessions, case clinics and assessment across a year.
How we teach
A session that only walks through legislation changes nothing about behaviour. We work from case to rule rather than the other way round: participants are given a file or an alert, make a decision, and only then meet the legal standard. That makes visible where the group's instinct diverges from what is expected — and that is the moment people remember.
We deliberately address why gatekeepers fail to report in practice: doubt about whether something is 'unusual enough', reluctance to lose a good client, the assumption that a colleague has already seen it. Naming those mechanisms works better than repeating that reporting is mandatory.
Who delivers the training
Our sessions are delivered by people who do the work. Tarik Binnekade worked as a senior compliance officer and MLRO in the crypto and payments sector and brings current casework from regulatory examinations, transaction monitoring and sanctions screening; his background as a doctorate-level neuropsychologist keeps the sessions sharp on behaviour and decision-making. Mitchell Zandwijken adds the executive perspective: what compliance means for commercial teams, systems and the trade-off between growth and control.
More about Mitchell and Tarik →
What you hold afterwards
- An attendance list with date, duration and topics covered — the record a supervisor asks for.
- An individual certificate of attendance per participant.
- The casework used and the worked answers, so you can reuse them internally.
- A short debrief: where the group got stuck, and what that says about your procedures.
That last point often carries the most value. If ten of twelve participants assess the same case wrongly, the cause is rarely the people and usually a work instruction that leaves room for interpretation.
Further reading
Frequently asked questions
Is AML training a legal requirement in the Netherlands?
Yes. Article 35 of the Wwft requires institutions to ensure that staff are familiar with the Act and receive periodic training enabling them to recognise unusual transactions and carry out customer due diligence properly. The Act sets no frequency or format; supervisors expect you to justify your approach and to evidence attendance.
How often should staff be trained?
The Act sets no interval. Annual training is the practical norm for staff in gatekeeper roles, with an additional session on material changes — new legislation, a new product, or findings from a supervisory review. New joiners are trained at onboarding, before they accept clients independently.
What is the group size and format?
We prefer eight to fifteen participants, so there is genuine discussion of casework. Larger groups are possible but shift the session towards lecture and away from practice. Sessions run half a day or a full day, on site or online, in Dutch or English.
Do participants receive proof of attendance?
Yes. You receive an attendance list with date, programme, duration and topics covered, plus an individual certificate per participant. That is exactly the evidence a supervisor asks for when testing compliance with Article 35 Wwft.
Can the training use our own cases?
Yes, and it is almost always better. We work with anonymised casework from your own practice — clients you declined, alerts that did not become reports, files that came back at review. Participants recognise the situations, and recognition is what makes a session stick.
Do you award CPD points?
We are not an accredited training institute and do not award CPD points ourselves. For many professions participants can log the hours as non-certified continuing education; we supply the programme, duration and proof of attendance for that purpose.
Want a tailored programme? Tell us which group it is for and where things go wrong in practice, and we will send a proposal with programme, duration and price. Request a programme.