Fix AML weaknesses before they become findings.

Big-firm expertise. Without the big firm.

Senior AML and financial crime advisory for banks, payments firms, fintechs and crypto businesses, led by a practitioner who has built and run these functions in-house, not a team of juniors with a template. We find and close the gaps before regulators do.

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~95% of transaction-monitoring alerts are false positives — burning analyst time on noise. We recalibrate your monitoring so the team chases real risk, not noise. Source: industry estimates (Nasdaq Verafin)

$3.1tn in illicit funds flowed through the global financial system in 2023. We design controls that catch what matters — proportionate, risk-based, defensible. Source: Nasdaq Verafin, Global Financial Crime Report 2024

2–5% of global GDP — an estimated $800bn–$2tn — is laundered every year. We build risk assessments that size your real exposure and focus controls where it counts. Source: UNODC

~1% of laundered criminal proceeds are ever detected and recovered by authorities. We strengthen detection and escalation so issues surface early — not in an enforcement notice. Source: UNODC / Europol

£264.8m FCA fine against a UK bank for AML failings — the first criminal AML prosecution of its kind (2021). We get your framework regulator-ready before scrutiny arrives — not after. Source: FCA

Where we help

Senior AML and financial crime support, shaped around who you are. Pick your track.

Financially regulated institutions

For banks, payments & fintechs

You're scaling customers, markets or products, and your financial crime controls need to mature alongside the business.

Fractional MLRO / Nominated Officer
AML programme across the full lifecycle
Licensing & regulator readiness
KYC/KYB & banking-partner support

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For compliance-tech vendors

Your product is strong; now it needs practitioner credibility to win and keep sceptical, regulated buyers.

Go-to-market & buyer positioning
Product review & compliance validation
Vendor benchmarking
Detection & model efficacy validation

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For KYC & CDD operations

You run KYC, CDD and monitoring for regulated clients, and need to deliver to the standard their regulators expect.

Remediation & programme management
Process excellence & optimisation
AI & automation enablement
Metrics, SLAs & quality assurance

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Two decades at the sharp end of financial crime

Built and run in-house at some of the fastest-scaling names in fintech and payments, not observed from a slide deck.

15+

Years in financial crime compliance across three continents

300+

Compliance professionals led globally at OKX across six countries

10M+

Customers covered in financial crime risk programmes

"I needed someone who could pick up a complex financial crime problem and run with it. Phil took ownership against a tight deadline and left it in better shape than he found it."

Jaco Struik · VP, Fraud & Financial Crime