HYBRID THREAT FINANCE™

Master the Methodology. Disrupt Global Financial Crime.

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Detect. | Identify. | Disrupt. 

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A new framework for financial crime intelligence — built by practitioners, for practitioners. Threat Finance Academy (TFA) trains financial crime investigators to think like intelligence analysts — mapping criminal networks, producing outputs that generate real law enforcement value, and disrupting threat actors.

Move beyond alert clearing to actor and network attribution. Learn the patent-pending Hybrid Threat Finance (HTF) taxonomy.

Become part of the new standard.
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—  T H E  P R O B L E M
$200B
Annual global AML spend
85-95%
industry average false positive rate 
1-2%
ROI on disrupting financial crime
—  W H O   I T' S  F O R

Built for every level
of financial crime professional.


Whether you're an individual investigator, an enterprise compliance team, or a public sector financial crime unit — TFA has a program designed for your context.

Individual Professionals

Stay relevant and upgrade your skill level to meet new challenges in fighting financial crime. Show compliance effectiveness and increase your value to the organization. From entry-level up to experienced compliance professional.

Earn certification and advance your professional standing on your own timeline with HTF™-grounded training.

Financial Institutions

Upskill AML teams, compliance officers, SIU investigators, and fraud analysts with intelligence-grade tradecraft. White-label options available for enterprise rollout at scale.

Public Sector & Law Enforcement

Equip FIU investigators and financial crime units with the same tools used by elite practitioners. Flexible group licensing and ILT delivery available for agencies of all sizes.

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Practical tradecraft, delivered three ways.

From self-paced online modules to live in-person instruction, TFA meets your team wherever you are.

ASYNC  •  SELF-PACED

Online Courses

On-demand, self-paced online training courses, globally applicable, that fit your schedule and requirements. Learn from experienced instructors, compliance practitioners, and university professors with experience in fighting financial crime.

LIVE  •  FACILITATED

Webinars & Exercises

Join us for live sessions and webinars, where we walk through case studies and discuss latest regulatory changes, expectations, and developments.

HANDS-ON  •  ON-SITE

In-Person Training

Tailored instruction delivered by our experienced teachers and instructors, delivered at your institution, a neutral venue, or via video conferencing.

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Stop chasing
transactions.
Start targeting
threats.

Traditional AML training teaches investigators to process alerts. The Threat Finance Academy teaches them to think like intelligence analysts — building actor-centric cases, mapping criminal networks, and understanding the full lifecycle of illicit finance.

Built on the same proprietary framework powering Hybrid Threat Central™, our curriculum bridges the gap between compliance volume and actionable intelligence.

We are an elite collective of seasoned practitioners and educators drawn from decades of experience in the public and private sectors of financial crime. This unique blend of expertise led us to develop a proprietary methodology focused entirely on practical, pragmatic tradecraft — the hands-on skills needed to successfully investigate and disrupt complex financial threats.

Actor-Centric Intelligence

Map threat networks, identify criminal roles, and build targeting packages that follow money through the full criminal lifecycle — not just the transaction.

HTF Methodology

Five-stage criminal lifecycle training replaces outdated placement/layering/integration models with real-world threat intelligence frameworks drawn from actual operations.

Intelligence-Grade Outputs

Produce SARs, targeting packages, and case narratives that generate real law enforcement value — not just regulatory paperwork that gets filed and forgotten.

Practitioner-Only Faculty

Our academy is powered by a distinguished faculty of law enforcement veterans, seasoned compliance practitioners, and academic experts, all bringing frontline, real-world experience to the fight against financial crime.
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Your path to
HTF™ Certification.

Complete four Keystone courses to earn the HTF Certification — Section 2's mark of intelligence-grade Anti-Financial Crime (AFC) competency.

HTF-Intro

$350 intro / $495

Alert Review

$495

Investigations

$495

SAR/STR Writing

$495

HTF Certified

4 courses complete

College-Level HTF Certificate — Coming Q4 2026

In partnership with a leading academic institution — a prestige-tier program for AFC professionals seeking an academically accredited credential. Reserve your place on the waitlist today.
Individual courses: $1,980

$1,595

Bundle saves $385
— W H Y   H T F ?

Benefits of our training programs

Practical approach

Our training is designed to provide the skills in a practical approach. Our students' success is our best asset in showing the quality of our training.

Globally oriented

Strategies shared and knowledge earned allows our students to immediately put their learning into practice, no matter where they work.

For your career

With the advance of AI up-skilling is no longer optional. In the fight against financial and organized crime the industry needs practitioners who understand how criminals operate and close the gap between financial investigators, law enforcement, and the intelligence community.