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DUE 31 AUG
Information Security Essentials 2026 and Code of Conduct & Conduct Risk are still open on your record.
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Chosen for your desk
Matched to grade, function and skill gapsRISK & COMPLIANCE
Trade-based money laundering red flags
4 modules · 2h 10m
LEADERSHIP
Coaching conversations for new managers
Path · 6 courses · 8h
DIGITAL & DATA
Reading a dashboard with confidence
3 modules · 55m
CUSTOMER
Handling complaints the ADCB way
5 modules · 1h 30m
The newsroom
LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT2 August
Nominations open for the autumn leadership cohort
Line managers may nominate up to two team members before 20 August. The programme runs across September and October, in Abu Dhabi and on Teams.
COMPLIANCE29 July
Information Security policy v4.2 is now in force
Acknowledgement is required from every employee by 31 August. A one-page summary of what changed sits alongside the document.
THE ACADEMY24 July
Your questions, answered inside the bank
The learning assistant now replies by voice or text. It reads only the courses, records and documents you are already permitted to see.
In the diary
12
SEP
Fraud typologies clinic
11:00 · Microsoft Teams · 18 seats
24
SEP
Market conduct workshop
09:30 · ADCB Head Office
02
OCT
Emerging leaders kickoff
All day · by nomination
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AML & sanctions 2026
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The catalogue
248 courses and 19 learning paths, drawn live from Sana Labs and opened through single sign-on
CoursesPathsLive sessions
All 248
Risk & compliance 64
Leadership 38
Digital & data 41
Customer experience 29
Products & credit 33
Mandatory 9
العربية 22
Anti-money laundering & sanctions 2026
7 modules · 3 hours · due 31 August
64 per cent completeResume
Information security essentials 2026
5 modules · 1h 20m · due 31 August
Not startedStart
Sanctions screening: practical cases
4 modules · 1h 45m · advanced
Completed 14 JuneCertificate
Fraud typologies in retail banking
3 hours · 12 September · instructor-led
18 seats remainingRegister
Conduct risk & ethics foundation
6 courses · 9 hours · foundation
Two of six coursesContinue
CBUAE consumer protection standards
3 modules · 1 hour · foundation
Not startedStart
تنتهي في ٣١ أغسطس
أساسيات أمن المعلومات ٢٠٢٦ ومدوّنة السلوك ما زالتا مفتوحتين في سجلك.
ابدأ الآن
مختارة لدورك الوظيفي
المخاطر والامتثال
المؤشرات التحذيرية لغسل الأموال التجاري
٤ وحدات · ساعتان و١٠ دقائق
القيادة
حوارات التوجيه للمدراء الجدد
مسار · ٦ دورات · ٨ ساعات
الرقمنة والبيانات
قراءة لوحات المؤشرات بثقة
٣ وحدات · ٥٥ دقيقة
العملاء
التعامل مع الشكاوى بأسلوب البنك
٥ وحدات · ساعة و٣٠ دقيقة
الواجهة العربية تعتمد اتجاه الكتابة من اليمين إلى اليسار بالكامل، وتُطبَّق على التنقّل والمحتوى والإشعارات والمساعد الذكي. المحتوى ثنائي اللغة يُعرض حسب تفضيل المستخدم في Microsoft Entra ID.
Course contents
7 modules · progress synced from Sana01Completed
The financial crime landscape in the UAE
18 minutes · video and reading
02Completed
Customer due diligence and risk rating
26 minutes · scenario
03Completed
Transaction monitoring in practice
31 minutes · case study
04
Sanctions screening and escalation
22 minutes remaining · in progress
Resume
05Locked
Politically exposed persons
24 minutes · reading
06Locked
Reporting suspicion: the ADCB route
20 minutes · scenario
07Locked
Final assessment
30 minutes · pass mark 80 per cent
What you will be able to do
Risk-rate a new corporate relationship and evidence the reasoning
Recognise the sanctions red flags that most often reach ADCB desks
Escalate a suspicion correctly, first time, within the required window
Explain the bank's obligations under the CBUAE framework in plain terms
Your feedback
Captured against the course in SanaHow useful was module 3 for your day-to-day work?
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Cohort discussion
Viva Engage · AML practitionersWC
Winston Cupido · 2 hours ago
Module 4 pairs well with Thursday's clinic. Bring a screening hit you were unsure about and we will work it through together.
SN
Sanjay Nair · yesterday
The escalation flowchart in the resources panel is the clearest version I have seen. Printed it for the desk.
ASSISTANT
“Summarise module 3 and quiz me before I start module 4.”
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RESOURCES
Escalation flowchart
PDF · 1 page
AML/CFT programme manual v7.1
Confidential · watermarked
Sanctions quick-reference card
PDF · 2 pages
ALSO TAKEN BY YOUR TEAM
Sanctions screening: practical cases4 of 6
Trade-based money laundering2 of 6
Fraud typologies clinic3 of 6
Completion is recorded against your compliance evidence and appears in your manager's dashboard within one refresh cycle.
My learning
Enrolments, progress and completions read directly from Sana Labs · state synced twelve minutes ago
In progress 3Assigned 2Completed 12Certificates
Anti-money laundering & sanctions 2026
Module 4 of 7 · 22 minutes left · due 31 August
Resume
Conduct risk & ethics foundation path
Two of six courses · self-paced
Continue
Coaching conversations for new managers
Module 2 of 6 · next live session 12 September
Continue
Certificates
Issued by Sana Labs · verifiableALSO EARNED
Conflicts of interestMay 2026
Ethics at ADCBApr 2026
Data protection basicsFeb 2026
Certificates carry a verification code and are recorded in your compliance evidence.
Conduct risk & ethics path
Ethics at ADCB
Completed
Conflicts of interest
Completed
Market conduct
In progress · 40%
Whistleblowing
Locked
Case studies
Locked
Assessment
Locked
Your year
FEB
MAR
APR
MAY
JUN
JUL
AUG
24.5 hours this year, eighteen per cent ahead of the same point in 2025.
Skills
Financial crimeAdvanced
People leadershipDeveloping
Data literacyFoundation
What it can do for you
Scope changes with your roleANALYTICS IN WORDS
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“Which teams are behind on mandatory training, and by how much?” Answers arrive as a figure, a short table and a source.
REPORTS ON DEMAND
Draft the report, then export it
Team progress, compliance status, programme summaries — generated in seconds and downloadable as evidence.
COURSE SUMMARIES
Catch up in five minutes
Key learnings from any course you have taken, condensed, with the option to be quizzed before an assessment.
RECOMMENDATIONS
What to learn next
Suggestions drawn from your role, grade, history and the skill gaps your manager has flagged.
POLICY QUESTIONS
Answers with citations
Every policy answer names the document, the version and the clause, so you can check it yourself.
VOICE
Hands free, between meetings
Speech-to-text and playback run on ADCB hardware. No audio, prompt or document reaches an external service.
Try asking
“Summarise my AML course and the key learnings.”Ask →
“What should I learn next for my role?”Ask →
“What changed in the new information security policy?”Ask →
“Build me a compliance report for my team this quarter.”Ask →
Where it runs
ModelOpen-weight, offline artefact
Hardware2 × A100 80GB, ADCB data centre
RetrievalSelf-hosted index, permission-trimmed
SpeechOn-premises transcription and playback
AuditEvery exchange logged to the bank's SIEM
External callsNone
If a question falls outside learning, or reaches for a document you are not cleared to see, the assistant declines and records the refusal. That behaviour is configured by the portal administrators and cannot be overridden by a prompt.
Community
Viva Engage communities, Teams class channels and the automated journeys that keep learning alive after the course ends
Cohort discussion
Conduct Risk & Ethics 2026WC
Winston Cupido · Learning & Development · 2 hours ago
The market conduct case clinic runs on Thursday at 11:00 in Teams. Bring one real scenario from your desk — we will work through three of them live and publish the notes here afterwards.
14 likes6 repliesReply
AH
Aisha Al Hammadi · Retail Risk · 45 minutes ago
The module 3 job aid was excellent. Has anyone mapped it against the new CBUAE circular? Happy to share my working notes if it helps the cohort.
8 likes2 repliesReply
RF
Rui Fernandes · Wholesale Operations · yesterday
Posting the reflection from our session: the escalation path we practised is now saved as a one-pager in the document centre.
21 likes9 repliesReply
Learning journeys
Power AutomateJOURNEY
TRIGGER
CHANNEL
STATE
Enrolment confirmation
On enrol
Teams
Live
Pre-work reminder
3 days before
Email
Live
Post-training reflection prompt
7 days after
Teams
Live
Overdue mandatory nudge
14 days before due
Teams
Live
Manager weekly digest
Sunday 07:00
Email
Draft
Your communities
AM
AML practitioners
1,240 members · community of practice
EL
Emerging leaders 2026
64 members · cohort
DA
Data & analytics
890 members · community of practice
CX
Service excellence
2,105 members · community of practice
GOVERNANCE
Communities follow the naming standard, carry two named moderators, and are archived ninety days after a cohort closes. Moderation and lifecycle rules are agreed with ADCB Communications.
Policies & documents
Versioned libraries, per-role permissions, acknowledgement tracking and a complete audit trail
Publish a document
AWAITING YOUR ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Information security policy v4.2
By acknowledging you confirm you have read and understood the policy, including the changes to device handling and third-party data sharing. Your acknowledgement is time-stamped and retained as compliance evidence.
Read the policy
Read & understood
Due 31 August
ACKNOWLEDGED
Information security policy v4.2 · recorded 4 August 2026, 09:14 GST · evidence stored against your compliance record.
View receipt
HR & people
Compliance & risk
Information security
Job aids
Forms & templates
DOCUMENT
CLASSIFICATION
VERSION
UPDATED
ACKNOWLEDGED
Information security policy
Group Information Security · acknowledgement required
CONFIDENTIAL
4.2
29 Jul
62%
Code of conduct 2026
Compliance · acknowledgement required
INTERNAL
2.0
14 Jul
88%
AML/CFT programme manual
Financial Crime Compliance · restricted distribution
CONFIDENTIAL
7.1
2 Jul
Not required
Learning & development policy
Human Resources
INTERNAL
1.4
18 Jun
Not required
Manager guide to mandatory training
Learning & Development · job aid
INTERNAL
3.0
11 Jun
Not required
Confidential downloads are watermarked and loggedRetention follows the ADCB scheduleEvery view and download is captured in Microsoft Purview
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FY 2026 · year to date
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Twelve per cent ahead of Q1
MANDATORY COMPLIANCE
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Target 95% by 31 August
OVERDUE ASSIGNMENTS
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Reminders issued through Teams
ACTIVE LEARNERS · 30 DAYS
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Adoption up eight per cent
Completions by month
February to August 20261,120
1,360
1,540
1,450
1,890
2,330
2,780
FEBMARAPRMAYJUNJULAUG
Posture
82%ON TIME
Completed82%
In progress11%
Not started7%
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Governance
Integration health, assistant guardrails, role mapping and audit — for the L&D and portal administrators
Sana Labs API
Synced twelve minutes ago
248 courses · no errors
248 courses · no errors
Entra ID sign-on
Healthy
Conditional access enforced
Conditional access enforced
Graph org sync
Last run 04:00
19 profiles missing a manager
19 profiles missing a manager
Analytics refresh
06:00 GST · 3m 12s
Row-level security validated
Row-level security validated
On-premises stack
Two GPU nodes · 41% used
Vector index current
Vector index current
Assistant guardrails
Learning domain only
Out-of-scope questions are refused with a policy message
Permission-trimmed retrieval
Sources filtered against the caller's rights before inference
Voice input and playback
Speech processed on premises, never in the cloud
Answers without a citation
Blocked — every reply must reference a source document
Open-weight model delivered as an offline artefact · checksum verified 28 July 2026 · served on two A100 80GB nodes inside ADCB premises · self-hosted vector store · conversation logs shipped to the bank's SIEM · no external calls of any kind.
Roles & audit
ROLE
ENTRA GROUP
MEMBERS
Employee
SG-LXP-Employee
8,412
Manager
SG-LXP-Manager
964
L&D administrator
SG-LXP-LnD-Admin
23
Portal administrator
SG-LXP-IT-Admin
6
TODAY'S AUDIT TRAIL
10:42Guardrail refusal · out-of-scope query
09:15Confidential document downloaded · watermarked
08:03Catalogue sync completed · 248 items
06:00Dataset refresh · row-level security validated
UpdatesMark all as read
Two mandatory courses close in 25 days
Automated nudge · delivered in Teams · 1 hour ago
Information security policy v4.2 needs your acknowledgement
Compliance · yesterday
Winston Cupido replied in AML practitioners
Viva Engage · 2 hours ago
Your certificate for Sanctions screening is ready
Sana Labs · 14 June
Go to what needs my attention
Studio
Authoring, approval, audience targeting and content lifecycle — L&D administrators and Communications only
Content calendar
New announcement
Compose
Draft · saved two minutes agoHEADLINE
Nominations open for the autumn leadership cohort
BODY
Line managers may nominate up to two team members before 20 August. The programme runs across September and October, in Abu Dhabi and on Teams.
AUDIENCE
ManagersGrade 4+All employeesAdd group
Resolved from Entra ID · 964 recipients
SCHEDULE & OPTIONS
Publish6 Aug, 08:00 GST
Expires20 Aug
Read receiptsOn
Teams pushOn
Submit for approval
Preview as employee
Save draft
Read receipts
Last published item74%
opened within 48 hours
Consumer Banking81%
Wholesale Banking72%
Group Operations69%
Approval queue
Information security policy v4.2
Group Information Security · 2 days ago
Review
Q4 mandatory training calendar
Compliance · yesterday
Review
Service excellence community launch
Communications · 3 hours ago
Review
CONTENT LIFECYCLE
ITEM
STATE
REVIEW DUE
Code of conduct 2026
Published
Jan 2027
Onboarding programme
In review
Sep 2026
Legacy AML deck 2024
Archive
Overdue
Nothing reaches employees without a named approver. Every publish, edit and archive is versioned and written to the Purview audit log.
Search
sanctions screening
31 results across courses, policies, people and communities
All 31
Courses 12
Documents 9
News 4
People 3
Communities 3
COURSE
Anti-money laundering & sanctions 2026
Module 4 covers screening and escalation. You are 64 per cent through this course.
DOCUMENT
AML/CFT programme manual v7.1
Section 6 — sanctions screening thresholds and escalation windows. Confidential; you have access.
COURSE
Sanctions screening: practical cases
Completed 14 June. Certificate available in My learning.
COMMUNITY
AML practitioners
Four discussions this week mention screening false positives.
PERSON
Winston Cupido
Learning & Development · owns the financial crime curriculum.
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“What does the manual say about sanctions screening thresholds?”
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Your team stands at 83 per cent on AML & Sanctions 2026. Three people still have modules open before 31 August.
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PROGRESS
DUE IN
H. Al Marzooqi
72%
25 days
S. Nair
40%
25 days
K. Ibrahim
0%
25 days
Drawn from Sana learning records and the AML programme manual v7.1.
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