On 1 July 2026, the first group of integrity and compliance professionals from financial institutions, anti-corruption, regulatory and oversight authorities successfully passed the certification exam and received the Certificates in Integrity and Anti-Corruption Compliance: Compliance Officer in the Financial Sector.

The training programme was delivered by leading experts in integrity and anti-corruption compliance: Lloydette Bay-Marrow, Emmanuel Breen, Andrea De Tommaso, Eduard Ivanov, Andrea Minto, Ralph Nash, Ivica Simonovski and Andrew Spalding.

Participants discussed typologies of corruption and related crimes in the financial sector, international anti-corruption compliance standards and guidelines, the extraterritorial application of anti-corruption laws, recent cases, and best practices for designing and implementing effective and efficient integrity and compliance programmes in financial institutions. After completing the training programme, participants successfully passed the certification exam.

Applications for the IACA Certification Programmes Business Sector and Financial Sector are open until 31 August 2026.