We build, run, and document the U.S. compliance systems that high-risk fintechs, both domestic and international, need to launch, satisfy their sponsor banks, and stand up to regulatory exams.
Built by former BSA Officers, compliance directors, and fintech engineers who've operated under real regulatory scrutiny.
Regulatory accountability sits with your management team and your board.
If your systems, decisions, and controls cannot be clearly explained and defended, your platform is exposed.
Most fintechs don't fail because of bad ideas. They fail because their product, operations, and compliance were never designed to work as one system.
You're adding people to problems that need engineering. Audit prep becomes a fire drill of manual assembly every time the bank asks.
Renewal diligence is tightening. Decisions, monitoring rules, and approval logic can't be explained from inside the platform itself.
Policies exist on paper but aren't reflected in how the platform actually works. Engineering, compliance, and ops are running in parallel, not together.
We operate across three layers that most firms treat as separate problems:
Product infrastructure, integrations, workflows, and delivery execution. Merchant onboarding, payment logic, vendor connections, dashboards.
Approval states, monitoring logic, audit trails, permissions. The rules that govern how decisions get made, embedded in the system, not beside it.
Compliance operations, reporting, remediation, readiness. The daily execution that keeps programs running and examiners satisfied.
Most firms advise. Some build. Others operate. We do all three.
Because that's what scrutiny actually tests.
Per-payout pricing. Compliance built in. No bolted-on modules.
Identity verification and business due diligence at onboarding
Real-time screening on every transaction
Governance-controlled rules with documented investigations
Every decision logged, every change documented
Integrate directly into your stack
Complete customer view linked to a single record
We operate in industries where regulatory scrutiny is highest, sponsor-bank tolerance is lowest, and the compliance vendors who claim to serve everyone quietly decline the engagement.
Anonymized scenarios from engagements where systems weren't producing what banks and examiners needed.
A high-volume payout platform was generating monitoring alerts but had no consistent process for documenting investigation outcomes. When the bank asked for a sample of resolved cases, the team couldn't produce defensible records. We connected the monitoring output to a structured case workflow. Every alert now follows a documented path from detection to disposition, and the bank receives monthly evidence exports automatically.
A fintech preparing for sponsor-bank renewal discovered during our audit that their transaction monitoring rules hadn't been updated since launch. Volume had tripled but thresholds hadn't changed. We identified the gap, prioritized the fix, and helped recalibrate the rules before the bank's review. What would have been a finding became a non-issue.
A focused 30 to 45 day engagement to identify what's breaking across your platform and what must be fixed first.
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