CAMS-FCI case studies
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CAMS-FCI is a specialist credential for anti-money laundering professionals who move beyond monitoring and alert review into full financial crime investigations. It is aimed at investigators, compliance analysts, fraud and financial crime teams, and supervisors who own a case from intake through escalation and outcome. The exam tests the investigative lifecycle rather than pure regulation recall: how an investigation function is governed, how risk scoring drives which cases get worked first, how alerts become planned cases, how funds are traced through layered transactions, how evidence is preserved and documented, how typologies and red flags are recognized across threats such as laundering, fraud, sanctions evasion and terrorist financing, how interviews and law enforcement liaison are handled, and how suspicious activity reporting and remediation close the loop. Ethics, confidentiality and legal constraints run through every domain rather than sitting in isolation. The CAMS-FCI case studies are 5 cases and about 4,053 words.
1The Thursday Alert Queue
You are a financial crime investigator at a 4 billion community bank. On Thursday morning the automated monitoring system generates 38 alerts, and your team's service standard is to triage each within two business days.
830 words, about 4 min2Following the Layers
You are investigating a personal account at a digital bank. Ivanov, opened the account five months ago and receives a salary of about 3,200 per month.
850 words, about 4 min3The Partner's Referral
You are a senior investigator at a wealth management firm. Your case concerns Ardent Holdings, a client that received 2.4 million from a private equity fund and then paid 1.1 million to a consultant in a jurisdiction with strict secrecy laws.
796 words, about 4 min4The Shell Company Employee
You are an investigator at a mid-sized bank. A junior relationship manager, Priya, opened 14 accounts in eight months for companies sharing the same registered address, a virtual office suite.
791 words, about 4 min5The MSB and the 30-Day Clock
You are an investigator at a bank. The customer, RapidRemit, is a licensed money services business with 22 agent locations.
786 words, about 4 min