Our courses are accredited by the Association of Certified Financial Crime Specialists (ACFCS)
Our courses are accredited by the Association of Certified Financial Crime Specialists (ACFCS)
How It Works
How High-Risk Education Helps You Build Real Compliance Skills.
Choose Your Course: Beginner to advanced training built for real-world risk.
Learn Through Practical Examples: No fluff. Just clear, hands-on guidance you can use immediately.
Earn Your Certificate: Build real investigative and compliance skills that transfer directly to the job.
✔️ What You’ll Learn (practical, real-world content)
✔️ How Courses Are Structured
✔️ Certificates & Accreditation
✔️ Team Training
✔️ Recommended Learning Paths
Who We Serve
Who We Train:
New compliance hires who need clear, practical fundamentals
✔️ Analysts and investigators building real-world skills
✔️ Fintech and MSB teams scaling their compliance programs
✔️ Banks training fintech partners and high-risk teams
✔️ Crypto providers strengthening AML, fraud, and sanctions controls
✔️ Professionals working in fraud, BSA/AML, financial crimes, and risk
Learning Paths
Start With a suggested Learning Path That Fits Your Role (or select individual courses). Whatever works for you.
Choose a curated path designed to help you build practical, real-world expertise. Whether you’re new to compliance or leveling up your skills, each path gives you a clear, step-by-step roadmap
✔️ AML / BSA / OFAC: Develop skills for effective customer due diligence, stronger investigations, and confident navigation of regulatory expectations.
✔️ Financial Crime Investigations: Gain practical techniques for identifying suspicious activity, tracing illicit flows, and building defensible case files.
✔️ Fraud Prevention: Combine theory with practical tools to detect, investigate, and prevent fraud across financial systems.
✔️ Fintech Risk & Oversight: Evaluate fintech risk, strengthen governance, and ensure compliance in fast-moving operational environments.
✔️ Crypto Compliance: Understand AML expectations for digital assets and learn hands-on blockchain tracing and crypto investigative techniques.
✔️AI in Compliance & Risk: Explore AI tools, regulatory expectations, and practical strategies for integrating AI into compliance workflows.
✔️ Third-Party Risk Management: Learn frameworks, regulatory expectations, and practical methods for building resilient third-party oversight programs.
Who We Serve
Training designed for both organizations and career-driven professionals in high-risk environments:
✔️ New compliance hires
✔️ Investigators & analysts
✔️ Fintech and MSB teams
✔️ Banks & partner programs
✔️ Crypto providers
✔️Fraud, AML, and risk professionals
✔️ Individuals upskilling into compliance
How It Works
High Risk Education builds real-world compliance skills you can use immediately.
✔️️ Choose Your Course → Beginner to advanced, built for real regulatory challenges
✔️️ Learn by Doing → Practical examples, no fluff
✔️️ Expand your knowledge with our HRE Resource Center
✔️️ Grow Long-Term → Skills that transfer directly to your job
✔️️ Plus: Expert-led content, CE accreditation, team training, and guided learning path
Learning Paths
Clear roadmaps to sharpen your expertise:
✔️️ AML / BSA / OFAC
✔️️ Financial Crime Investigations
✔️️ Fraud Prevention
✔️️ Fintech Risk & Oversight
✔️️ Crypto Compliance
✔️️ AI in Compliance & Risk
✔️️ Third-Party Risk Management
Upcoming Webinar Trainings
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Introduction to Lifecycle of Models (LOM) Risk Management: Building the Foundation for AI and Model Governance
Wednesday, January 7, 2026 1:00 PM
Preview: Foundational model lifecycle concepts, AI governance, risk management, policy, testing.
Who should take it: Risk managers, model governance teams, AI / data science professionals
📈 Intermediate
⏱ 60 Minutes
Instructor: Joseph Cuanan
💲Cost: $129
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EDD Essentials: Verifying Net Worth and Source of Wealth
Thursday, January 8, 2026 12:00 PM
Preview: Verifying net worth, source of wealth documentation, escalation, and investigation.
Who should take it: AML investigators, compliance officers doing EDD
📈 Intermediate
⏱ 60 Minutes
Instructor: Robert Dube
💲Cost:$129
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Fraud Signals in Action: Connecting Systems to Stop Fraud
Friday, January 9, 2026 1:00 PM
Preview: Connecting system data and fraud signals, setting up monitoring, detection frameworks.
Who should take it: Fraud analysts, operations, AML teams
📈 Intermediate
⏱ 60 Minutes
Instructor: Brian Davis
💲Cost: $129
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Third-Party Risk Without the Headaches: Smarter Oversight in the Age of AI
Tuesday, January 13, 2026 11:00 AM
Preview: How to manage third-party risk using AI, due diligence, monitoring, KPIs.
Who should take it: Vendor risk teams, compliance, procurement, risk
📈 Intermediate
⏱ 60 Minutes
Instructor: Branan Cooper
💲Cost:$129
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The Human Side of Fraud: Insider Risk and Employee Vigilance
Wednesday, January 14, 2026 11:00 AM
Preview: Insider risk, employee fraud, behavioral indicators, prevention & response.
Who should take it: Compliance, fraud, HR, operations teams
📈 Intermediate
⏱ 60 Minutes
Instructor: Andrea Lee Valentin
💲Cost:$129
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Smart Compliance: Using AI to Revolutionize Housing Oversight, Risk, and Regulatory Strategy
Thu, Jan 15, 2026 12:00 PM Thu, Feb 5, 2026 1:00 PM
Preview: Using AI for regulatory strategy, data-driven compliance, risk transformation.
Who should take it: Compliance leaders, risk, regulatory strategy teams
📈Intermediate
⏱ 60 Minutes
Instructor: Tasia Craig
💲Cost: $129
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Follow the Money: Practical Skills for Financial Crime Investigators: Part 1: Starting Strong — How to Launch a Financial Crime Investigation
Friday, January 16, 2026 12:00 PM
Preview: Investigation fundamentals, gathering intelligence, building cases, structuring investigation plans.
Who should take it: Financial crime investigators, AML analysts, BSA staff
📈Beginner
⏱ 60 Minute
Instructor: Rio Miner
💲Cost: $119
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Compliance Management Systems Made Simple: Building a Program That Works!
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 12:00 PM
Preview: Building a CMS: program structure, oversight, APIs, monitoring, testing, training, policies.
Who should take it: Compliance officers, risk managers, program managers
📈Beginner
⏱ 60 Minutes
👤Instructor: Jess Hawks
💲Cost:$119
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Synthetic Identity Fraud 101: Detection and Prevention
Wednesday, January 21, 2026 3:00 PM
Preview: How synthetic identities are built, red flags, verification strategies, escalation, continuous program improvement.
Who should take it: Fraud investigators, AML analysts, operations teams
📈 Beginner
⏱ 60 Minutes
Instructor: Andrea Lee Valentin
💲Cost:$119
About Us
High Risk Education (HRE) provides practical training for professionals handling today's toughest risk and compliance challenges. We focus on key areas like Al, cryptocurrency, cybersecurity, fraud, AML, sanctions, and consumer protection topics where regulators are paying close attention and mistakes can be costly.
We work with fintechs, MSBs, credit unions, community banks, payment firms, and mortgage lenders. Whether you're leading compliance, building a risk program, or staying current on regulations, our courses deliver clear, actionable guidance to help you stay compliant, manage risk, and handle high-risk situations with confidence.
Our instructors have real experience inside the organizations you serve. They know the pressure and fast pace of this work, so our courses are focused, practical, and built to provide value from day one - no fluff, just what you need.
At HRE, we believe informed professionals are the best defense. We're here to help you be ready.
Start With the Learning Path That Fits Your Role
Choose a curated path designed to help you build practical, real-world expertise. Whether you’re new to compliance or leveling up your skills, each path gives you a clear, step-by-step roadmap
Learning Paths
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AML / BSA /OFAC Learning Path:
Develop a solid foundation in anti-money laundering and sanctions compliance. This path equips professionals with the skills to conduct effective customer due diligence, strengthen investigative techniques, and navigate regulatory expectations with confidence.
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Fraud Prevention Learning Path:
Understand how modern fraud schemes operate — and how to stop them. This path blends theory with practical tools to help professionals detect, investigate, and prevent fraud across financial systems.
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Fintech Risk & Oversight Learning Path:
Designed for fintech teams, partner-bank staff, and oversight professionals managing high-risk programs. This path provides the tools to evaluate fintech risk, strengthen governance, and ensure compliance in fast-moving environments.
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Crypto Compliance Learning Path:
Navigate the complex world of crypto risk and regulation. This path helps professionals understand AML expectations in digital assets and gain hands-on skills in blockchain tracing and crypto investigations.
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AI in Compliance & Risk Learning Path:
Harness the power of AI responsibly in compliance, risk management, and investigations. This path explores AI tools, explores regulatory expectations, and provides hands-on strategies for integrating AI into compliance workflows.
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Third-Party Risk Management Learning Path:
Strengthen your ability to assess, monitor, and manage risks posed by vendors, partners, and service providers. This path equips compliance and risk professionals with practical frameworks, regulatory expectations, and hands-on strategies for building resilient third-party oversight programs.
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Financial Crime Investigations:
Sharpen your investigative skills to uncover, document, and resolve complex financial crime cases. This path is designed for compliance officers, investigators, and risk professionals who need practical techniques to identify suspicious activity, trace illicit flows, and build defensible case files.
HRE Insights in 30 with Justin Muscolino
Join industry expert Justin Muscolino for HRE Insights in 30. Every Friday, get a concentrated dose of analysis on the fintech, crypto, financial crimes, fraud and more that matter today.
HRE Insight 30
HRE Insight 30
HRE Insight 30
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How We Help You Manage Risk
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Live + On-Demand High-risk Webinars
We offer live and on-demand compliance webinars built for financial professionals working with or within Anti-money Laundering (AML), Artificial Intelligence (Al), cryptocurrencies, fraud, sanctions, privacy and other high-risk domains.
Our sessions are led by industry professionals and built for banks, fintechs, MSBs, credit unions, lenders, and payment firms facing regulatory pressure. And tailored to what compliance, fraud, and risk professionals need to act with confidence.
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Custom Training Solutions
We build tailored training programs whether you're a fintech startup, a payments company, credit unions, MSB or a global bank and we match the unique risk profiles to build a suitable solution.
Whether you need role-specific or high-risk topic coverage - like crypto, fraud, or Artificial Intelligence (Al) - our experts design practical, engaging sessions aligned with your regulatory obligations.
Get Insights Into Current Trends and Insights
Stay sharp with plain-language updates on what's changing across financial crime, digital assets, and consumer risk, so you can act. not react Our research delivers practical intelligence tailored to banks, fintechs, MSBs, and financial institutions. We focus on what matters most: clear analysis, real-world implications, and what to do next.
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Why Compliance is so interesting?
The goal of Compliance is to keep a firm out of regulatory trouble. And believe it or not, it’s not all glitz and glamor. Sometimes we need to get our point across to different areas of an organization.
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Bringing Fraud In-House
Bringing fraud detection and prevention in-house for a bank, Program Manager, or Fintech is a strategic move that can enhance security while ensuring a more tailored approach to fraud management.
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Inside the Mind of a Financial Crime Investigator
Money launderers / illicit actors despite their best efforts often leave trails - an anomalous transaction that doesn’t quite add up, a discrepant document or information that holds little significance, or a transactional behavior that often go unnoticed
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