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Risk & Compliance

MLROs and financial crime specialists, including regulator-approved appointments.

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01

Financial crime controls

  • Risk assessment
  • Onboarding
  • Screening
  • Monitoring
  • Alerts
  • Investigation
  • SAR

The constraint is almost never tooling. It is analyst capacity and tuning.

A regulated appointment can be rejected by the regulator, and a weak financial crime hire surfaces as an enforcement issue long after the decision.

02

What we understand

  • Approved & controlled functions
  • MLRO accountability
  • SAR/STR decisioning
  • AML risk assessment
  • CDD, EDD & PEPs
  • Transaction monitoring tuning
  • Sanctions screening
  • KYB & UBO verification
  • Card, APP & mule fraud
  • UK, EU, DIFC/ADGM, MAS
03

What we screen for

Approval history and portability

We establish which regimes a candidate has actually held an approved role in. An approval in one jurisdiction does not transfer to another, and this materially affects your timeline.

Judgement, not framework recall

We ask about a decision made against commercial pressure. Financial crime hires are ultimately judgement hires, and framework recall does not predict it.

Builder or maintainer?

Running an established programme at a bank and standing one up at a pre-licence fintech are different jobs. We screen explicitly for which one they have done.

04

Where these hires go wrong

Starting the MLRO search late and letting approval become the...

Starting the MLRO search late and letting approval become the critical path to launch.

Hiring a compliance officer to satisfy a licence condition, with...

Hiring a compliance officer to satisfy a licence condition, with no authority to enforce.

Assuming an approval in one jurisdiction carries to another.

Assuming an approval in one jurisdiction carries to another.

Treating transaction monitoring as tooling when the constraint...

Treating transaction monitoring as tooling when the constraint is analyst capacity.

FAQ

Frequently asked

Do you recruit MLROs and regulated appointments?

Yes — MLROs, deputy MLROs, heads of compliance and other controlled or approved functions. We factor regulator approval into the hiring plan from the start, because it usually sits on the critical path.

How long does an MLRO hire take?

The search is often not the constraint — regulatory approval is, and it varies by jurisdiction and regulator. We set expectations against your specific regime at briefing rather than quoting a generic timeline.

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