Our services - Financial Crime
Risk Assessments
We can assist you with conducting comprehensive assessments to identify and evaluate potential financial crime risks specific to your organisation.
Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Compliance
We can help you develop and implement robust financial crime programs, policies, and procedures to detect and prevent money laundering activities.
Counter-Terrorist Financing (CTF) Compliance
We can support you in establishing effective controls and procedures to mitigate the risk of terrorist financing.
Fraud Prevention and Detection
We can assess and enhance your fraud prevention measures, including internal controls, data analytics, and employee training.
Know Your Customer (KYC) and Customer Due Diligence (CDD)
We can design and implement KYC and CDD processes to verify customer identities, assess their risk profiles, and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.
Sanctions and Watchlist Screening
We can assist you in implementing systems and processes to screen customers, transactions, and business partners against global sanctions lists and watchlists.
Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR) Management
We can help you develop SAR protocols, assist with SAR investigations, and ensure timely and accurate reporting to regulatory authorities.
Compliance Program Evaluation and Enhancement
We can review and evaluate your existing compliance program to identify gaps and recommend enhancements to ensure effectiveness and alignment with regulatory expectations.
Regulatory Reporting
We can assist you with the preparation and submission of regulatory reports related to financial crime, ensuring accuracy and compliance with reporting requirements.
Technology Solutions
We can recommend and implement advanced technologies, such as data analytics tools and anti-fraud software, to enhance your financial crime detection and prevention capabilities.
Ongoing Monitoring and Reviews
We can provide ongoing monitoring and periodic reviews of your financial crime prevention measures to ensure their effectiveness and address emerging risks.
Compliance Training and Awareness
We can provide customised training programmes to educate employees on financial crime risks, regulatory requirements, and best practices for detection and prevention.
How we will support you
Step 1
We spend time understand your business, people, culture and business requirements.
Step 2
We prepare a business proposal, including a plan of action, based on your unique needs.
Step 3
We provide initial and ongoing support to deliver your requirements. This can also entail onsite and in-house support.
Sectors we serve
Payment services
We work with start-ups to unicorns and offer bespoke support across licence authorisation, compliance and support across the UK and Europe.
Banking
We help retail, private and investment banks with authorisation applications, PRA & FCA compliance, financial crime and training.
Credit broking
If you sell products and services and wish to offer customer finance, then we can help you become FCA authorisation.
Insurance
We provide comprehensive assistance to general insurers and Lloyd's of London brokers across compliance, training and authorisation.
Lending
From buy now pay later to traditional lending models, we advise you on operations, strategy, authorisation, and ongoing compliance requirements.
E-money
We work with start-ups to established firms in helping with Electronic Money Institution licence authorisation applications, compliance, training, policy and more.
Cryptoassets
We help clients on financial crime and licence authorisation across a number of countries.
Investment services
We work with UK and European regulators and can help you become authorised to offer investment services as a regulated business.
Mortgage providers & brokers
We offer a range of services including compliance, training, and authorisation support, specifically tailored for mortgage providers and brokers.
Open banking
We help open banking firms, including account information service and payment initiation service providers, across compliance, training, and authorisation.
Why leading firms choose us as their partner.
"We engaged Buckingham Capital Consulting to assist us in strengthening our financial crime and AML framework, and their expertise and ongoing support have been vital in enhancing our risk management practices.
Buckingham Capital Consulting worked closely with us to assess our existing framework, identify gaps, and develop a robust and tailored financial crime and AML program. Their deep understanding of regulatory requirements and industry best practices allowed them to provide practical recommendations and guidance to enhance our risk mitigation strategies.
With their support, we built out a comprehensive framework that encompassed policies, procedures, risk assessments, customer due diligence, and ongoing monitoring. Their expertise in developing effective controls and implementing efficient processes has been invaluable in improving our ability to detect and prevent financial crime."