Obsqo Labs Academy
Risk and compliance, made practical for managers in financial services
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Courses by a Certified Internal Auditor with an ICA Diploma in AML · 9,500+ students · rated 4.4 from 3,100+ reviews
Risk Blind Spot Check
Fifteen statements, five areas: ownership, controls, change, incidents and culture. See your score at once.
Operational Risk in Finance: A Quick Start for Managers
Operational risk lands on your desk, but nobody explained it. Seven short videos, two quizzes and a final test with a certificate.
Inside Halbury
The letterThe supervisor wants the risk assessment in sixty days. The one on file is from 2021.
Too good a merchantAn online shop grew tenfold in a year. Still a good client?
Instant cryptoBuy crypto in one tap and send it anywhere. Whose wallet is it?
The board risk committeeThe risk stays high after controls. What will you change, and by when?
A quick questionA scene from the compliance course.
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04.06.2018
A software update stopped a bank's deposit machines reporting large cash deposits for nearly three years.
53,506 cash deposits of A$10,000 or more went unreported from November 2012 to September 2015. The bank agreed a A$700 million penalty. Which early-warning signal would have caught it?
Operational Risk in Financial Institutions for Managers
You own the risk in your processes, but not the tools to manage it.
Who it is for and what you will do
Ten minutes before a board meeting, a team member tells you about a mistake. Which response makes the next person more likely to speak up?
Your team learns the culture from how you receive bad news. Thank the messenger first; the questions can come next. Learn why in the free course →
Who owns this control?
Every office has this problem. The answer is in Process Mapping and Internal Controls for Managers.
Process Mapping and Internal Controls for Managers
Processes nobody has mapped hide risks and missing controls.
Who it is for and what you will do
20.12.2022
A bank moved its customers to a new IT platform over one weekend. Many struggled to use their accounts, and normal service took until December.
UK regulators fined TSB £48.65m for weak planning, governance and oversight of a critical IT supplier, not a single bug.
Compliance in Financial Services: A Guide for Management
Compliance feels like a brake, or a function you must build from scratch.
Who it is for and what you will do
Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Business Risk Assessment
An assessment that ticks boxes but does not show where the risk really sits.
Who it is for and what you will do
Internal Audit: a Guide for Management
Audits feel like an inspection rather than help.
Who it is for and what you will do
“Very informative and easy to understand. A great guide for management and auditors.”Udemy learner, ★5 · Internal Audit course
“Great content specifically on the risk-based approach. It was very comprehensive and instructive.”Udemy learner, ★5 · AML course
“Quite informative and wonderfully explained module. Bonus lectures are cherry on the cake.”Udemy learner, ★5 · AML course
The Obsqo Labs instructor
A Certified Internal Auditor with the ICA International Diploma in AML, a BSI Diploma in Quality Management and a Master of Social Science in Economics, with many years of experience in internal audit and compliance in regulated financial firms.
Some of the lectures are presented by an AI avatar of the instructor, made from his own image and voice. The Halbury characters are fictional and AI-generated.
Training a group of managers?
Team access and certificates on request.
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