We partner with banks, fintechs, digital-asset firms, and regulated institutions to strengthen Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) frameworks through integrated BSA/AML assessments and independent model validations delivered as a single assurance service. Our approach rejects the false dichotomy between traditional compliance reviews and model validation by evaluating governance, policies, and risk management alongside the performance, configuration, and interoperability of transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, customer risk rating, and other FCC systems. Combining legal and regulatory expertise with quantitative analytics and deep compliance technology insight, we deliver holistic, regulator-ready assessments that strengthen control effectiveness and modernize compliance operating models.
Through our unique vantage point advising leading compliance technology vendors, we bring market intelligence, benchmarking insight, and practical implementation knowledge that enables clients to modernize target operating models, optimize control effectiveness, and strengthen regulator confidence.
Key Outcomes
Integrated risk and technology transparency: We provide a holistic view of your FCC risk posture by assessing governance, models, data flows, and underlying technology architecture, identifying gaps across transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, KYC/CDD, fraud, and digital-asset controls.
Regulatory-aligned governance and assurance: We benchmark your program against FATF, FinCEN, FFIEC, OFAC, and international expectations, providing clear documentation, remediation roadmaps, and audit-ready reporting to demonstrate defensible compliance.
Independent, defensible model validation coverage: We deliver independent validations of all material FCC models and analytical components, assessing conceptual soundness, data integrity, tuning, performance metrics, and governance alignment consistent with SR 11-7, OCC 11-12, and global supervisory standards.
Technology-enabled target operating models: We evaluate and optimize your compliance technology stack—mapping system configurations, model logic, alert workflows, data lineage, and QA/QC controls, helping you transition to scalable, automation-enabled, and regulator-ready operating models.
Market-informed optimization insights: Through our advisory work with compliance technology providers, we offer unique insight into emerging typologies, model governance best practices, QA/QC dashboards, and vendor capabilities—enabling informed build-versus-buy decisions and more strategic vendor oversight.
Our Services Include
Integrated BSA Annual Assessment & Model Validation: A comprehensive, year-round FCC assurance package combining Independent BSA/AML/CFT programme assessment; Validation of all material FCC models (transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, customer risk rating); model governance and documentation review. This integrated structure provides predictable cost, continuous oversight, and moves beyond point-in-time reviews to sustained compliance assurance.
Independent FCC Program Assessments: Comprehensive, data-driven reviews of AML/CFT, sanctions, fraud, and digital-asset controls, evaluating governance structures, risk assessments, policies, procedures, staffing models, and the performance and configuration of compliance technologies.
Model Validation, Coverage & Optimization: Independent validations of monitoring, screening, and risk-rating models—assessing design, assumptions, data inputs, segmentation, parameter tuning, alert conversion metrics, drift indicators, and model governance. We also perform scenario coverage assessments and tuning/optimization.
Compliance Technology Stack & Target Operating Model Advisory: End-to-end evaluation of your FCC systems architecture, assessing interoperability between transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, case management, data warehouses, and analytics platforms. We design future-state target operating models that embed automation, QA/QC dashboards, and scalable governance controls.
Model Risk Management & Governance Uplift: Design or enhancement of MRM frameworks tailored to FCC environments, including model inventories, tiering methodologies, validation cadence, documentation standards, KRIs/KCIs, committee governance, and lifecycle controls.
Regulatory Remediation & Independent Oversight: Support for consent order remediation, regulatory lookbacks, internal audit findings, and enforcement-driven transformation efforts—providing structured remediation plans, validation support, and independent assurance reporting.
Why Choose Us
Financial crime compliance is no longer a siloed policy exercise. It is a technology-enabled control ecosystem. Effective oversight requires understanding not only regulatory expectations, but how monitoring engines, screening algorithms, data pipelines, vendor platforms, and governance processes interact in practice.
Our combined legal, regulatory, quantitative, and technology expertise allows us to seamlessly assess FCC frameworks at both the governance and system levels, bridging compliance strategy with operational reality.
Moreover, our deep relationships with leading compliance technology vendors provide differentiated insight into platform capabilities, QA/QC best practices, dashboard architectures, and evolving model governance standards, insight that directly benefits our FCC clients through stronger vendor oversight, smarter system optimization, and more strategic investment decisions.
Whether you are seeking a comprehensive annual BSA assessment, independent model validations, regulatory remediation support, or a modernization of your compliance operating model, our approach delivers integrated, defensible, and technology-enabled FCC assurance designed for sustainable regulatory confidence.