A 45-minute, CPD-assessed course for everyone at a TCSP, from administrators to directors. Not a repeat of general AML training: it is about the client who wants a company formed and will not say who is behind it, the nominee arrangement, the registered office used as a front, and the introducer who vouches for somebody.
CPD assessed. Every pass issues a certificate carrying the CPD mark.What a person at a TCSP actually faces is not a list of risky structures but a request, made politely, with a reason attached. The course turns on the request and what to do when the reason does not hold.
If you cannot say what the company does, who its customers are and who ultimately benefits, do not accept the appointment, and do not let a colleague accept it. Not understanding the business is not a shield.
An introducer vouching for a client is not due diligence. Reliance is narrow, the firm stays responsible, and it must be able to get the underlying evidence at once.
And one that needs care: do not resign a directorship or registered office on your own initiative once a report has been made or is being considered. To the client, a sudden resignation is a message.
It assumes learners already know what money laundering is, and spends its time on what is different about trust and company service work.
Company formation, nominees, registered offices, trusts and introductions: where each one bends, and the moments the course is about.
Which body supervises the firm and why that is worth checking, and the risk-based approach done honestly. Includes a filmed scenario.
Due diligence before acting, beneficial ownership as control rather than arithmetic, five questions for a trust and the one that gets skipped, when enhanced due diligence is required, and why “their accountant has already done it” is not an answer.
The changes worth noticing, why filing for a client puts the firm's name behind their statement, the registers the firm may be responsible for, and records.
How internal reporting runs, tipping off in a business built on client service, and why you should not resign your way out of a structure that worries you.
Two requests that deserve a flat answer, naming the commercial pressure, what the firm owes you and what you owe the firm.
Why every layer of a cross-border structure should have a reason, and sanctions as a separate regime, including ownership and control by a designated person whose name is not on the register.
What to take away, followed by the test and the certificate.
A firm that quietly declines the work it is suspicious about has kept its own hands clean and let the next provider take it. By the end, a learner can:
A short film, shot for Fundsure with the same cast across the catalogue, puts the learner beside a colleague asked to form a company in a hurry, with nominees offered for privacy, money coming from somewhere other than where the client is, and no straight answer to who is ultimately behind it. The learner identifies the real concern, and is told why the tempting answers are wrong: no single feature is the problem, it is the combination.
The test at the end draws 10 questions from a bank of 30, with a pass mark of 80%, and a pass issues a named, CPD-marked certificate that anyone can check online.
Checked against the legislation, HMRC, HM Treasury and Companies House. Last checked Sept 2026.
In force 30-Jun-26. Selling off-the-shelf companies is now within the TCSP definition and a business relationship needing due diligence, and “high-risk third country” became “FATF call for action country”.
The same instrument extended trust registration to more non-UK trusts holding UK land, and added enhanced due diligence requirements around pooled client accounts.
Compulsory for new appointments since 18-Nov-25, with the transition for existing directors and people with significant control ending 18-Nov-26. The requirement to file through an authorised corporate service provider is not expected before November 2027.
Published by Companies House 11-Aug-26. It can suspend or remove an authorised provider after the event, and had already done so to well over a hundred.
HM Treasury has decided the FCA will become the single professional services supervisor, replacing HMRC for many TCSPs. It needs legislation and has not happened yet.
The 2025 National Risk Assessment keeps TCSPs at high risk for money laundering and raises their terrorist financing risk from low to medium.
Fundsure is itself HMRC-supervised for anti-money laundering and an authorised corporate service provider with Companies House, so the course is written by people who face the same requests, the same filings and the same supervisor.
In the Fundsure Portal the course is scheduled for everyone, chased before the deadline, and every sitting, score and certificate is kept as the training record HMRC expects to see.
Companies House ID verificationAML Awareness for TCSPs plus AML and CTF, Sanctions, Anti-Tax Evasion, Board of Directors and the rest of the catalogue of 20, with no per-course fees.
The general anti-money laundering course, which this one builds on.
See the courseOwnership and control, freezing and reporting to OFSI and OTSI.
See the courseWhere structures and nominees meet tax risk.
See the courseThe duties a nominee director takes on, whether they understand the business or not.
See the courseWe will send you a link to take the whole course, filmed scenario and test included, or walk you through the portal with a demonstration firm.
