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Financial crime analytics for Meridian Bank

Build, tune and explain anti-money laundering transaction monitoring with SQL, Python and Power BI, the way Meridian Bank's financial crime team works.

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Level
Intermediate
Language
English
Duration
18 hours
Lessons
15

Last updated 22 Oct 2026

What you'll learn.

  • Explain money laundering stages, key typologies and the UK and EU regulatory framework, including MLR 2017 and the FATF Recommendations.
  • Model transaction, customer and alert data for monitoring and investigations.
  • Write and tune SQL detection scenarios such as structuring, rapid movement of funds and high-risk corridors.
  • Build a Power BI alert triage dashboard with operational and effectiveness measures.
  • Prioritise alerts with an explainable Python model and measure its benefit honestly.
  • Document scenarios and models to meet model risk management and audit expectations.

How this course is taught.

Every module comes to you in four parts, so you can watch, read, discuss and check what you have learned.

  1. Quadrant I

    e-Tutorial

    Watch a short video lecture for each module, with full text notes beside it so you can review or translate at your own pace.

  2. Quadrant II

    e-Content

    Download or print the reading material for each module, with key terms, case studies and links to further resources.

  3. Quadrant III

    Discussion forum

    Ask questions and clear your doubts with other learners. The course team guides the discussion and answers questions.

  4. Quadrant IV

    Assessment

    Check your understanding with quizzes, short and long-answer practice and FAQs, then take the final test.

Curriculum.

5 modules · 15 lessons
1Financial crime and the regulatory frame3 lessons · 54 mine-Content (notes)2Assessment1
  • Note: Money laundering and the UK and EU framework22 min
  • Note: Typologies in retail and commercial banking20 min
  • Quiz: Module 1 quiz12 min
2Data foundations for monitoring3 lessons · 48 mine-Content (notes)2Assessment1
  • Note: The transaction monitoring data model20 min
  • Note: Customer risk and KYC data18 min
  • Quiz: Module 2 quiz10 min
3Detection scenarios in SQL3 lessons · 57 mine-Content (notes)2Assessment1
  • Note: Writing detection scenarios in SQL25 min
  • Note: Tuning thresholds with above and below the line testing20 min
  • Quiz: Module 3 quiz12 min
4Alert triage dashboards in Power BI3 lessons · 50 mine-Content (notes)2Assessment1
  • Note: Designing an alert triage dashboard20 min
  • Note: Measuring monitoring effectiveness18 min
  • Quiz: Module 4 quiz12 min
5Models, model risk and governance3 lessons · 1 h 2 mine-Content (notes)2Final test1
  • Note: Prioritising alerts with an explainable model22 min
  • Note: Model risk management and documentation20 min
  • Final test: Final assessment20 min

Your certificate.

This is the certificate you receive when you complete the course and pass its final test.

Certificate No.

WDT-WJMFCA-2026-000000

Certificate of completion

Financial Crime Analytics for Meridian Bank

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Financial crime analytics for Meridian Bank

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Verify this certificate at walnutdatatech.com/verify-certificate with certificate number WDT-WJMFCA-2026-000000. Issued on Walnut LMS.

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What you need to receive it.

Complete every lesson and pass the final assessment with at least 70%.

Every certificate carries its own number that anyone can check on the verification page.

About this course.

Designed with Meridian Bank Group's financial crime analytics team for analysts joining its transaction monitoring, investigations and model risk functions. It covers the regulatory frame a UK bank operates in, the typologies Meridian's scenarios are built to detect and the data skills used every day to write rules, triage alerts and evidence that monitoring works.

You will write detection scenarios in SQL against a realistic transaction model, design an alert triage dashboard in Power BI, prioritise alerts with a Python model and document it to the standard expected under the PRA's model risk principles. All examples use synthetic data. Open to every Walnut learner during launch.

Who this is for

  • Analysts applying for Meridian's financial crime analytics and transaction monitoring roles
  • Data analysts moving into anti-money laundering (AML) and compliance analytics
  • Investigators who want to understand how alerts are generated and tuned
  • Model validators and auditors who review financial crime systems

Designed with Meridian Bank Group for its open roles.

Skills this certificate proves: SQL (Proficient), Python (Proficient), Power BI (Proficient), Data modelling (Proficient).

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