Understanding Financial Crime
A European educational platform for compliance professionals, regulators, and investigators. Explore interactive guides, structured learning paths, hands-on exercises, and practical tools - built for the people who fight financial crime.
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What is FraudCodex?
FraudCodex is a European educational platform designed to help compliance officers, risk analysts, investigators, and regulators understand how financial crime works - and how to detect it. Explore in-depth guides, follow structured learning paths, practice with interactive exercises, and use practical compliance tools - all built for industry professionals.
Market Abuse
Insider trading, spoofing, pump & dump, wash trading, front-running, rug pulls - across TradFi and crypto markets.
AML Typologies
Structuring, trade-based laundering, shell companies, chain hopping, mixing - with money flow diagrams for each.
Hands-On Training
Structured learning paths, interactive exercises, and progress tracking to build real-world compliance skills.
Member Platform
Create a free account to access structured training built for compliance professionals, investigators, and analysts.
Learning Paths
Structured courses on market abuse, AML, and financial crime. Organized into chapters and lessons with Markdown content, diagrams, and real-world examples.
- Curated chapter-by-chapter progression
- Track your completion per lesson
- Multiple difficulty levels
Interactive Exercises
Hands-on scenarios that put your knowledge to the test. Analyze order books, detect suspicious patterns, and make real-time compliance decisions.
- Realistic market abuse scenarios
- Instant feedback & explanations
- Beginner to advanced difficulty
Progress Tracking
Your personal dashboard keeps track of everything. See your completion rates, pick up where you left off, and monitor your growth over time.
- Personal learning dashboard
- Resume where you left off
- Completion tracking per course
Who is it for?
Compliance Officers
Sharpen your understanding of red flags and reporting obligations across jurisdictions.
Regulators
Visual overviews of evolving schemes and typologies to inform supervision and policy.
Investigators
Pattern recognition training and money flow diagrams for financial crime analysis.
Risk Analysts
Structured learning paths, interactive exercises, and practical tools to build expertise in financial crime detection.
Market Abuse
Insider Trading
Trading securities based on material, non-public information in breach of a fiduciary duty or other relationship of trust.
ExploreMarket Manipulation
Artificially inflating or deflating the price of a security or otherwise influencing market behavior for personal gain.
ExploreSpoofing & Layering
Placing and quickly canceling large orders to create a false impression of supply or demand.
ExploreFront-Running
Executing orders on a security ahead of a large pending order that will predictably move the price.
ExploreMarking the Close
Trading at or near the close to push the official closing or settlement price to an artificial level.
ExploreBenchmark Manipulation
Submitting false inputs or trading around fixing windows to distort a reference rate such as LIBOR or a daily FX fix.
ExploreMomentum Ignition
Triggering a rapid price move to induce other algorithms and traders to follow, then trading against the momentum created.
ExploreQuote Stuffing
Flooding the market with huge numbers of orders and cancellations to slow competitors and obscure the true order book.
ExploreAbusive Squeeze & Cornering
Exploiting control over the supply of an asset or delivery obligations to dictate an artificial price.
ExploreUnlawful Disclosure
Disclosing inside information outside the normal course of duties, a market abuse offence distinct from insider dealing.
ExplorePonzi & Pyramid Schemes
Paying returns to existing investors from new investors' capital rather than genuine profit, until inflows collapse.
ExplorePump & Dump
Coordinated buying to inflate a token price followed by a mass sell-off, leaving late investors with losses.
ExploreWash Trading
Simultaneously buying and selling the same asset to generate misleading activity and inflate trading volume.
ExploreRug Pull
Developers abandoning a project and running away with investor funds after attracting significant capital.
ExploreFlash Loan Attacks
Borrowing large uncollateralized sums within a single transaction to manipulate prices or drain DeFi protocols.
ExploreHoneypot Tokens
Deploying tokens with hidden code that lets victims buy but blocks them from selling, trapping their funds.
ExploreAnti-Money Laundering
Structuring (Smurfing)
Breaking large transactions into smaller amounts to avoid regulatory reporting thresholds.
ExploreTrade-Based Laundering
Exploiting international trade transactions to transfer value and disguise the origins of criminal proceeds.
ExploreShell Companies
Using corporate entities with no real operations to obscure the ownership and movement of illicit funds.
ExploreMoney Mules
Recruiting individuals to receive and transfer illicit funds through their own accounts to obscure the money trail.
ExploreRound-Tripping
Moving funds out and back through related entities to create the appearance of legitimate revenue or activity.
ExploreHawala & IVTS
Transferring value through informal broker networks that settle outside the regulated banking system.
ExploreCash-Intensive Businesses
Commingling illicit cash with the legitimate takings of cash-heavy front businesses to legitimize proceeds.
ExploreReal Estate Laundering
Buying, holding and reselling property to integrate illicit funds into the legitimate economy.
ExploreChain Hopping
Moving funds across multiple blockchains to obscure the transaction trail and evade detection.
ExploreMixing & Tumbling
Using services that pool and redistribute crypto assets to break the link between sender and receiver.
ExplorePeel Chains
Peeling small amounts off a large balance across many hops while the bulk keeps moving, to launder crypto.
ExplorePig Butchering Scams
Long-con investment and romance scams that groom victims before draining them via fake crypto platforms.
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