Compliance you can evidence, not just claim.
Delivered through Avant Academy, Avant Tech Nigeria's training and certification arm. Enforcement in Nigeria has teeth. Regulators now ask for named, trained, certified people — and a record proving it. We deliver authorized programmes that produce both the capability and the paper trail.
Avant Tech Nigeria is licensed by the Nigeria Data Protection Commission as a Data Protection Compliance Organisation (DPCO) — authorized to audit, train and certify data protection compliance under the Nigeria Data Protection Act, covering both organisations and the individual Data Protection Officers they appoint, not only to hold our own compliance posture.
What we cover
- ✓Nigeria Data Protection Act and NDPC enforcement obligations
- ✓AML/CFT/KYC for banks, fintechs, insurers and designated non-financial businesses — see below
- ✓Corporate governance, ethics and whistleblowing duties
- ✓Vendor, third-party and outsourcing risk obligations
- ✓Audit preparation and evidence management — see what an NDPC compliance audit expects, or go straight to the audit, outsourced DPO and consulting services if you need the work done, not just the readiness check
AML/CFT & KYC Compliance Training
Our virtual AML/CFT/KYC training curriculum is fully aligned with the strict Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) AML/CFT/CPF Regulations. It explicitly integrates the March 2026 CBN Baseline Standards for Automated AML Solutions, which mandate continuous staff training on automated system usage, risk profiling, and real-time transaction monitoring.
Regulatory training mandates we cover
- ✓Annual Program Submission — the CBN requires institutions to submit their Annual AML/CFT Employee Training Program to the CBN and NFIU by December 31st each financial year. Our program provides the structured syllabus required for this regulatory submission.
- ✓Automated System Training (2026 mandate) — in line with the newly phased AML automation deadlines (ending in 2027/2028), we train teams to handle automated risk profiling, PEP/sanctions screening, and machine-learning flags.
- ✓Rigorous KYC & KYB track — modules cover mandatory digital onboarding, biometric/liveness checks, ultimate beneficial ownership (UBO) tracking, and corporate CAC verification.
- ✓Suspicious Transaction Reporting (STR) — focuses on strict NFIU timelines, automated case management tracking, and defining valid "red flags" to avoid heavy administrative sanctions.
Banking & fintech regulatory compliance
Banks, microfinance banks, payment companies and other CBN-regulated fintechs carry compliance obligations that run wider than AML/CFT/KYC alone — the CBN Cybersecurity Framework, consumer protection regulations, corporate governance codes for financial institutions, and sanctions/PEP screening all sit on the same compliance function, usually the same small team. We build a single curriculum across those obligations rather than treating each as a separate training vendor relationship, so a fintech's compliance officer isn't stitching together AML training from one provider, cybersecurity-framework training from another, and governance training from a third. See our banking and fintech regulatory compliance training guide for how the pieces fit together.
Who it's for
Compliance officers, risk and internal audit teams, data protection officers, board and executive committees, and any function a regulator can name in a finding. DPO training Nigeria organisations rely on for the person appointed to that role is built into the same curriculum — see the full data privacy and protection programme.
Formats
- ✓Intensive in-person workshops for compliance and risk teams
- ✓Live virtual cohorts for multi-site organisations
- ✓Self-paced LMS modules for firm-wide annual refreshers with completion tracking
Why the LMS matters more than the classroom here
For a regulated or service-heavy organisation, the deliverable of compliance training isn't the session — it's the record a regulator can request afterward. Avant Academy's LMS logs who completed which module, when, and with what assessment score, so the Annual AML/CFT Training Program submission, an NDPC audit request or a board compliance report is a export from the platform rather than a reconstruction exercise. In-person and live-virtual delivery still happen where they're the right format; the LMS is what turns any of them into evidence.
What you walk away with
Certified individuals, a documented training register, and assessment records you can hand an examiner without a scramble.
Frequently asked questions
Do you provide banking compliance training?
Yes. AML/CFT/KYC, CBN Cybersecurity Framework awareness, corporate governance and consumer protection training are built as one curriculum for banks and microfinance banks, not separate one-off sessions.
Do you train fintech compliance teams?
Yes. Fintechs carry the same CBN-driven obligations as banks — sanctions/PEP screening, KYC/KYB, automated AML system training — scaled to a smaller compliance team that usually can't afford to run separate vendors for each requirement.
Do you cover international standards like ISO 27001, GDPR or PCI DSS?
We build awareness of these frameworks into the compliance and cybersecurity curriculum for teams whose organisations are pursuing or maintaining that certification — what the standard requires of staff day to day, not the formal certification audit itself. We are not an ISO 27001 or PCI DSS certification body; for the NDPA specifically, our DPCO licence does cover that regulatory-audit role directly (see data protection compliance services).