Financial Crime Management

There’s a growing need today for professionals who can skillfully prevent, detect, and investigate illicit financial activities. This program is only available in person.

The Financial Crime Management program gives you the skills and confidence to pursue a career in the fields of private sector compliance and investigations, government intelligence, training and research with multilateral organizations, and anti-corruption compliance for NGOs.

Overview

The Institute’s Financial Crime Management Certificate can be taken as a specialization for students currently enrolled in an Institute degree program or as a stand-alone certificate for nondegree students. Individuals interested in the stand-alone certificate should have a graduate degree or several years of relevant work experience in areas such as law, law enforcement, intelligence, banking, or data analytics.

Upon completion, students will be prepared to do the following:

  • Uncover financial crime in public, private, and nonprofit contexts.
  • Analyze cyber risks relating to financial crimes and help organizations take measures to prevent them.
  • Help organizations make effective use of data analytics in financial crime compliance.
  • Ensure conformity to laws regulating financial crimes, such as the Bank Secrecy Act, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, Sarbanes Oxley Act, and Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctions, as well as non-U.S. laws, such as the U.K. Bribery Act, and international standards issued by the Financial Action Task Force.
  • Communicate a financial crime analysis report in clear, direct, jargon-free style via written, verbal, and visual schematics.
  • Identify violations of laws and regulations in the context of organized crime, corruption, terrorism, and WMD proliferation, and work to proactively thwart such activities.

Curriculum

The certificate consists of 16 credits. Core classes are only offered in the spring semester. Electives are available in the spring and fall semesters and winter term.

Core 

  • Financial Crime Typologies 
  • Legal Aspects of Financial Crime 

Electives 

Sample courses:

  • Financial Crime Investigations & Compliance in Practice 
  • Network Analysis 
  • Intro to Crypto, Web 3.0, and DeFi 
  • Blockchain Analytics 
  • Fundamentals of CyberSecurity
  • Quantitative Data Analysis with Excel 
  • SQL Basics
  • Intro to Intelligence 
  • Terrorism Financing Seminar 
  • Transnational Crime & Terrorism 
  • Corruption Seminar 
  • Proliferation Financing Cases Workshop 
  • Strategic Export Controls 
  • Import/Export/Trade Law Compliance 
  • Research on the Dark Web 
  • Financial Crime Prevention Practicum 
  • Advanced Data Analysis
  • Cybersecurity: An Operational Perspective 
  • Geographic Risk Modeling for Financial Crime 
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Financial Crime Intelligence and Management

Learn more about the Financial Crime Management specialization and our Alumni’s career outcomes.

Careers

Alumni of the financial crime management program have used the skills they learned in the following sectors and organizations:

Government

  • FBI
  • CIA
  • DEA
  • Homeland Security Investigations (HSI)
  • Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)
  • U.S. Department of the Treasury
    • Terrorism and Financial Intelligence
    • Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)
    • Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN)
  • U.S. State Department
  • Department of Justice
  • Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry & Security 
  • U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO)

Private sector intelligence

  • Kroll
  • Thomson Reuters Special Services
  • TR Worldcheck
  • Steele CIS
  • Mintz Group
  • Camstoll Group

Banking

  • Charles Schwab
  • HSBC
  • JPMorganChase
  • BNP Paribas
  • Wells Fargo
  • Western Union
  • Bank of the West

Consulting

  • Deloitte
  • Ernst & Young
  • PwC

International

  • U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
  • Interpol

Technology

  • Paypal
  • Square/Block
  • FinClusive
  • AirBnB
  • Google
  • Facebook
  • Ripple

“The financial investigations courses at the Middlebury Institute were incredibly valuable and played a substantial role in my ability to pass the FBI written test” - Gerry Moss MA NPTS ‘22

Tuition

If you take 12–16 credits in a semester, you will be charged the full-time rate.

If you take 11 or fewer credits in a semester, you will be charged at the per credit rate:

Visit our tuition page for details of each rate.

How to Apply

If you are interested in the certificate, visit the how to apply page for the MA in Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies but please note that the following are not required for applicants to the certificate program:

  • Admissions interview
  • Second language proficiency

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