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Investigate
When money has moved and you need to know where it went, or when an alert has turned into something larger than an alert.
Complex financial crime investigations, end to end
Cross-chain and DeFi tracing, including bridges, mixers and consolidation patterns
Asset tracing and recovery support for law firms and insolvency practitioners
Fraud investigation and typology analysis
OSINT and open-source attribution
Responding to subpoenas, production orders and law enforcement requests
SAR and STR narrative preparation and quality review
We are certified on Chainalysis Reactor, KYT and Ethereum Investigations, and work across Elliptic, Crystal and TRM. Our investigators have handled live casework at a global exchange.
Build
When the function does not exist yet, or exists on paper and not in practice.
Compliance and financial crime functions built from zero
Enterprise-wide and business-wide risk assessments
AML/CFT policies, procedures and control frameworks
Technology selection and implementation: KYC, KYB, screening, transaction monitoring, blockchain analytics
Target operating model and team design
Licensing and market entry support
One of our directors built a group compliance function across a BVI-regulated investment manager and a US-regulated MSB, chose the technology stack, wrote the framework and led the teams that ran it.
Remediate
When there is a finding, a backlog, or a deadline you did not choose.
Post-inspection and post-audit remediation programmes
File reviews, lookbacks and KYC remediation at scale
Onboarding and due diligence quality assurance
Transaction monitoring tuning and alert backlog clearance
Correspondent banking and de-risking response
Interim resourcing for a team that is underwater
Our KYC lead has run onboarding and quality functions at Barclays, Deutsche Bank, Nationwide and RBS. Our correspondent banking specialist works in financial crime at a UK development finance institution and has spent his career on emerging market risk.
Assure
When you need to know whether it actually works, before someone else tells you it does not.
Independent AML and financial crime programme audit
Regulatory examination and external audit readiness
Sanctions screening effectiveness testing and tuning
Control testing and thematic reviews
Fractional MLRO, deputy MLRO and Compliance Officer cover
Board and staff financial crime training
We have sat on the other side of this. One of our directors was the primary point of contact for regulatory examinations and led a group through successive external BSA audits, all of which passed.