Do you qualify, and what will it really cost?

Enter your education and your anti-money-laundering-related experience, and pick a target credential. The checker returns a qualifies, short, or pending read against that credential's eligibility model, plus the recertification you should plan for. It runs in your browser. There is no signup, no email, and no wall.

Confirmed, and held

We confirmed the full Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) point allocations (education, experience, and training) and the Certified Financial Crime Specialist (CFCS) credit allocations, so both return a computed read. For the Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) we confirmed the 40-point and 50-point thresholds but not the per-item point values, so that checker is held with an honest "uses a points-based system" read rather than a guessed rule. The CAMS figures are cross-referenced across multiple independent sources because acams.org itself blocked our direct fetch attempts; see the CAMS page for the full verification note. Costs shown are real, dated, sourced figures, except the Certified Global Sanctions Specialist (CGSS) exam fee, which stays "Not published" because secondary sources conflict.

See the full comparison matrix for how each credential's eligibility model and recertification line up. If your background does not fit the standard rule cleanly, foreign degree, military or law-enforcement experience, self-employment, combined part-time roles, or a lapsed membership, the eligibility edge cases guide covers what each body has and has not published on those exact questions.