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Compliance & Regulatory Consulting

Your compliance function, handled

Advisory or deeply hands-on as your fractional Compliance Officer. We help regulated firms navigate the FCA Handbook, mitigate risk and stay ahead of the regulators.

Compliance, regulations and standards
What we do

From fractional CCO to one-off reviews

Take a full retained relationship or a single project. We specialise in AIFMs but support advisory firms, lenders and Annex 1 businesses too.

Fractional CCO

We act as your part-time Compliance Officer, supporting SMF16/17s: monitoring, policies and procedures, Fit and Proper assessments, SMF applications, attestations, best execution testing and regulatory returns.

Support to CCO / team

Retained support to your existing Compliance Officer or team: ad-hoc queries, compliance monitoring, reviewing financial promotions, Variations of Permission and annual audits.

MIFIDPRU returns

We prepare or check MIFIDPRU calculations for RegData returns from your balance sheet, P&L and AUM figures, quarterly, for you to review and submit.

Compliance healthcheck

A healthcheck of your whole business or part of it. We specialise in AIFMs and the SYSC, FUND, COLL, COBS and MIFIDPRU sections of the FCA Handbook.

Risk management

Business-wide and customer risk assessments, and comprehensive Three Lines of Defence audits to safeguard investors and enhance accountability.

Regulatory reporting

Annex IV and MDP extracts to the FCA under AIFMD, plus RegData and Connect submissions handled with precision.

Governance

Reliable governance frameworks aligned to the FCA Handbook, including attending and advising board meetings and drafting minutes.

Annex 1 firms

Specialist MLR support for FCA Annex 1 financial institutions such as lenders: annual compliance report, MLRO support, risk assessments, policy reviews, training and independent AML audits.

Fundsure Portal

Regtech that keeps you audit-ready

Every client gets access to the Fundsure Portal, our online GRC solution for tracking, monitoring and approving compliance activity with full audit and export.

Monitor and Testing

Centralise your Compliance Monitoring Plan and replace paper and spreadsheets.

Documents and Attestations

A central home for compliance documentation, attestable by staff.

Tasks Monitor

Ad-hoc reminders and tracking of personal, company and team tasks.

Registers

Centralise company registers with custom approval workflows.

Calendar

Task calendar across personal, company and team.

Reporting

Report on any data in the system and export to Excel, Word or PDF.

Approvals

Configurable workflows for gifts, PA dealing and breach handling.

Affirmations

Automated periodic staff affirmations with reminders at key dates.

Quarterly regulatory updates

Stay ahead of new rules

Every client receives a quarterly review of UK and EU regulatory updates and enforcement news, helping you prepare for new legislation before it goes live.

FAQ

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