Financial Intelligence Sources is designed to equip professionals with essential skills to identify, analyze, and assess a wide range of financial intelligence (FININT) sources. Financial intelligence plays a critical role in uncovering illicit activities such as money laundering, terrorist financing, and fraud, especially as criminal organizations employ increasingly sophisticated methods to conceal their operations. This comprehensive course provides you with the tools and knowledge needed to detect and disrupt illicit financial activities by exploring both closed and open sources, including publicly available information, commercially available data, and cryptocurrency transactions.

Through a blend of theoretical insights and practical applications, you’ll engage in hands-on exercises and explore real-world examples that allow you to recognize patterns, identify red flags, and stay ahead of evolving threats. This course is designed to be responsive to the latest developments in financial intelligence, equipping you with strategies to tackle real-world challenges and adapt to new trends and regulations that impact FININT work.

Whether you’re new to financial intelligence or looking to deepen your expertise, this course offers valuable, actionable knowledge tailored to your field. Enroll now to build a stronger foundation in FININT and advance your expertise today!

Course curriculum

  1. Sources of FININT

  2. Cryptocurrency and the Blockchain

  3. FININT Community

About this course

  • $395.00
  • 42 lessons
  • 2 hours of video and audio
  • FININT community
  • 8 Assignments

FININT Community

  • Exclusive to this course, you will be enrolled in our FININT community where learners will share resources, best practices, and new and evolving sources of open FININT. This community gives exclusive access to your instructor, where Jessica will guide students through new source evaluation and exploitation.

Who is this course for?

  • Compliance Professionals

    If you work in a bank, fintech, money service business or other type of financial institution, you’ll benefit from the comprehensive knowledge of FININT sources you'll get from this course. The lessons include specific open and closed sources, how to exploit them, and how to evaluate their veracity.

  • Law Enforcement and Security Service Professionals

    If you’re working to detect and disrupt illicit finance and other threats, you’ll benefit from the course because the unique combination of information and exercises will help you understand FININT sources and how that knowledge can be leveraged as another tool in your investigative toolbox.

  • Researchers & Academics

    Taking the course will give you access to curated, comprehensive, and reliable information that provides important foundational context when using FININT for research. The discussion of sources, practical exercises, and access to the FININT community will help keep your research skills up to date. This course will help you continue contributing to the scholarly landscape in this domain.

  • National / International Policy Professionals:

    Do you set national anti-money laundering / counter-terrorist financing policies? Do you work on international norms relating to illicit financing, or perhaps terrorism issues? This course provides you with a better understanding of what information is available to support your work, and how it can be exploited to create more nuanced understanding of FININT and illicit finance issues.

Instructor

Jessica Davis

Instructor

Jessica Davis, PhD is an international expert on terrorism and illicit financing, President and Principal Consultant with Insight Threat Intelligence, and President of the Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies. She is an award-winning researcher who works to bring evidence-based solutions to the private and public sectors to counter illicit financing and terrorism. Prior to launching Insight Threat Intelligence, Jessica worked for the government of Canada in various roles in the Canadian Armed Forces, Global Affairs Canada, FINTRAC, and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. She is the author of Illicit Money: Financing Terrorism in the 21st Century (2021) and has published extensively in the Globe and Mail, Just Security, Lawfare, and in academic journals. Jessica is an associate fellow with the Royal United Services Institute’s Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, a senior visiting fellow with the Soufan Center, and a senior associate with the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS). In 2023, she won the prestigious SSHRC Impact Talent award for her research on counter-terrorist financing policies and practices. She writes at newsletter.insightthreatintel.com.