Anti-money-laundering, sanctions, fraud, bribery and the UK regulatory perimeter — for compliance officers, investigators and MLROs in banks, fintechs and professional services.
Mada University for Science & Technology teaches this award to one academic standard whether you study on campus in Warsaw or on the tuition-free online pathway. Assessment is identity-checked; the marking scheme does not change with your postcode. This is an academic Master's award; where a field has a licensing or registration route, that remains a matter for your professional body or regulator.
You will work through the material as a practitioner-researcher: applied methods, real or anonymised cases, and a supervised capstone or dissertation as the final component. Faculty mark whether you noticed the constraints a slide deck usually hides.
MSc Financial Crime & Compliance is taught as one award, not a list of unrelated modules. The published length is 18 months, and the credit total is 36. Students move from Legal & Regulatory Frameworks for the Field through Legal & Regulatory Frameworks for the Field; Comparative & International Perspectives; Legal Research Methods for Practitioners; Contracts, Status & Obligations; Regulation, Conduct & Enforcement; Data Protection, Privacy & Technology, and finish on LLM Dissertation.
Each course has a question, a method, and a submission. In this field, students read a set of figures, build a small case, and state which assumption moves the result. Reading is financial statements, a recognition note, and a risk report. The artefact a marker expects is a recommendation that separates the decision, the numbers, and the risk.
The award is built so that a graduate can do the following in practice: Read the relevant law and regulation for a working problem, without pretending to be counsel Advise an employer, board or team on scope and risk honestly Design a compliant process — grievance, disclosure, contract, complaint
Teaching assumes the student can read a source, attempt a problem before the seminar, and revise after feedback. Attendance at live seminars is part of the design. The capstone or final course must use the methods of the earlier courses; a project that ignores them does not pass.
This course does not confer an accounting, audit, or financial-services licence.
The pages for each course name the topics that are examined. Those topics are the syllabus. A brochure line is not a substitute for them.
The programme carries 36 credits across four assessed modules. Delivery is tuition-free (0) on the online pathway. Transcripts use letter grades and a GPA scale consistent with Mada University for Science & Technology awards. No professional-body logo is used in marketing to imply endorsement.
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