As of mid-2026

FINTRAC's Most Wanted

Failure to maintain an ongoing compliance training program

We're officially in the top 5 of our FINTRAC's Most Wanted countdown!

Coming in at Number 5 is the "Failure to maintain an ongoing compliance training program."

Since the start of 2025 eight companies were penalized for this, and the keyword here isn't just "training" but "ongoing training."

A lot of firms think that if they have a PDF from a few years ago that they tell their employees to read that they're covered on training but it needs to be more systemic than that.

Regulators want to see that your team is being updated on new risks, new typologies, and changes in the law, and they want to see that you're training on things that are relevant to your specific risk profile as a company.

If your staff is just completing one of those yearly web-based training courses where they click next on every slide in the deck, and then immediately turn around and forget everything that they just saw, there's a chance that that's not sufficient.

Rhizome isn't a training company, but we do have incredible partners who specialize in AML education.

So once your team is trained we want you to come back to us, and use our workflow automation to make sure that your team members adhere to what they just learned.

So whatever your policies are we'll take those high-level training concepts and we'll turn them into mandatory steps in your day to day workflows.

Training is one component, but also using a well designed system to keep folks on the straight and narrow path is gonna be a huge win for your company.

Reach out to us to see how we can help with the rest of your compliance program.