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Who this course is for

This MSc is designed for professionals with senior management functions in business with strategic and decision-making responsibilities for financial crime and compliance risks. This is an executive top-up course, so you’ll need an ICA Postgraduate Diploma in Governance Risk and Compliance or Financial Crime Compliance, and ideally have at least 10 years’ of experience in practice.

In this course, you’ll benefit from The University of Manchester Department of Criminology’s leading academic work around financial crime and fraud. Delivered flexibly online, you can seamlessly integrate your learning into your life and work schedule. With three practical masterclasses per year, you’ll have the opportunity to make professional connections and get involved in interactive workshops with ICA SMEs to deliver governance and compliance best practice.

Through this course, we’ll equip you with the knowledge, expertise and skills needed to refine your own professional and scientific development. By translating ‘science into practice’, you will directly contribute to the enhancement of your business organisation, informing corporate strategies, policies and decisions in relation to governance, compliance and financial crime risks.

This course is also a stepping stone for those considering to study for a PhD.

What you will learn

Develop a theoretical and conceptual toolkit for determining the most plausible explanations for risk, threats and transgressions inside and outside your business.

Recognise the complexity and multiplex nature of the business world within which regulatory and governance problems, and financial crime risks occur.
Gain knowledge of how to interact with regulators and enforcement authorities, including information sharing and self-reporting of internal failures.
Acquire advanced level knowledge on business risks and opportunities related to digital trust and digital security.
Obtain expertise on the range and nature of insider and outsider financial crime risks in relation to people, technologies, data and information, and be able to develop strategies for mitigation and development for specific cyber-security incidents.

How it will benefit your career

Inform strategy creation and operational policies to make your organisation more efficient, robust and compliant, and in turn protect customers, investors and reputations more broadly.
Recognise business vulnerabilities that emerge in relation to workplace and individual data security as new technologies are integrated into strategic decision-making and policy creation.
Develop advanced skills for formulating original research questions and designing research projects that can feed into your strategic decision-making.
Build on your confidence to interact with co-employees, advocacy organisations, governmental bodies, with regard to the foundations of your approaches and proposals to prevention, intervention and reduction in the sphere of financial crime and compliance risks.