Anti-money-laundering, sanctions, fraud, bribery and the UK regulatory perimeter — for compliance officers, investigators and MLROs in banks, fintechs and professional services.
Gisma University of Applied Sciences teaches this award to one academic standard whether you study on campus in Wrocław 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 Gisma University of Applied Sciences awards. No professional-body logo is used in marketing to imply endorsement.
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