About CAMS Cert Prep
CAMS Cert Prep is an independent, neutral comparison guide to the anti-money-laundering (AML) and financial-crime certifications. It is a project of Urban Algorithm LLC. We sell no course, run no boot camp, and take no side, which is the whole point: every other source in this lane is trying to sell you one specific exam.
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Is CAMS Cert Prep affiliated with ACAMS or any other credential body?
No. CAMS Cert Prep is an independent project of Urban Algorithm LLC, not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by ACAMS, ACFCS, ACFE, or the ICA. We sell no course and take no side, so we name each body's credentials only to describe the exams, never to imply a relationship with the body itself.
Not affiliated with any credential body
CAMS Cert Prep is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS), the Association of Certified Financial Crime Specialists (ACFCS), the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), or the International Compliance Association (ICA). We name those bodies and their credentials only to describe the exams this site helps you reason about. All certification and organization names are the marks of their respective owners.
How we work with the data
Our value is a neutral, dated comparison nobody else publishes. Fees, eligibility rules, exam structure, recertification cycles, and credential scope are facts, and we compile them ourselves, each cell cited to the body's own page and stamped with the date it was checked. We never reproduce any body's copyrighted study-guide text or exam questions. Salary figures are quoted from public, attributable sources with an explicit method, and we never claim a certification causes a specific raise.
When a number cannot be cleanly verified, we leave it marked pending rather than publish a guess. A neutral source that publishes a wrong figure is worse than one that admits it is still checking.
How we make money
Right now, we do not. The tools are free and ungated, there is no email capture, and there is no paid tier. If we ever add a link that earns a commission, it will be clearly disclosed, it will never sit on a comparison or recommendation, and it will never be one of the prep vendors this site stays neutral about. Protecting that neutrality matters more than near-term revenue, because neutrality is what makes the comparison worth citing.
Contact
Questions, corrections, or a fee that changed? Reach the publisher through the Urban Algorithm contact page (via Urban Algorithm, our publisher). We respond quickly, especially to a correction on a dated figure.