Analysing suspicious financial activities is a key function of Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs). To enhance the capacity of FIUs worldwide, the International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) in cooperation with the Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units has developed an e-learning course on “Operational Analysis”. The new course is now available online.

The e-learning course is based on the Egmont Group’s successful on-site Tactical Analysis training. Using the steps of the intelligence cycle, analysts learn to conduct an analysis of suspicious activity reports in an effective and well-structured way. In 16 interactive, hands-on sessions analysts learn and practice how to assess the risk of suspicious activities, and how to plan and collect information from national and international open and closed sources. The sessions provide opportunities for the analysts to evaluate and collate information, to transform this information into intelligence, and in a final step, to create and disseminate written and visual intelligence reports. This e-learning course can easily be accessed online from the convenience of any location; course time and pace can be chosen individually.

The course “Operational Analysis” is designed for FIU analysts, financial analysts in law enforcement agencies and staff members working in financial intelligence departments of private banks. It is currently available in English and Spanish and offered for free to all public institutions on ICAR's Asset Recovery Forum: 

forum.assetrecovery.org/oac (English)
forum.assetrecovery.org/oac-esp (Spanish)

For more information, please contact: Peter Huppertz, Senior E-learning & Web Specialist,  (peter.huppertz@baselgovernance.org)