Directorate / Services

An integrated
intelligence practice.

Six analytical domains, delivered by a single team with continuity of case memory and full audit trail. Engagements are bespoke and scoped in writing before work begins.

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AML
02
KYC
03
EDD
04
INV
05
RSK
06
MON
§ 001AML
01
Ref / CIG-SVC-01

AML program design, assessment and financial crime prevention

Modern money laundering does not look like a textbook typology. We help institutions calibrate programs against real, current threat patterns — layered trade-based schemes, mule networks, virtual asset off-ramps, and correspondent banking pass-through.

// Scope of work
  • 01AML program assessments aligned to FATF, EU AMLD, FinCEN, MAS and FCA
  • 02Financial crime risk frameworks and residual risk methodology
  • 03Transaction monitoring tuning, scenario design and model validation
  • 04SAR/STR quality reviews and disclosure narrative uplift
  • 05Investigative reviews of suspected money laundering activity
  • 06Regulatory readiness for examinations, s.166 reviews and consent orders
// Outcome

"Programs that a regulator can defend and an operator can actually run."

§ 002KYC
02
Ref / CIG-SVC-02

KYC, identity intelligence and beneficial ownership

Identity verification is a floor, not a ceiling. We build customer intelligence pictures that survive nominee arrangements, shelf companies, opaque trusts and jurisdictions with limited registry transparency.

// Scope of work
  • 01Identity verification and document authentication protocols
  • 02Beneficial ownership mapping and UBO resolution
  • 03Corporate structure decomposition and control-versus-ownership analysis
  • 04Customer risk profiling and dynamic risk scoring
  • 05Onboarding intelligence for private banking and wealth
  • 06Perpetual KYC (pKYC) design and ongoing review workflows
// Outcome

"You know who your customer is, who stands behind them, and what changed this quarter."

§ 003EDD
03
Ref / CIG-SVC-03

Investigative due diligence for high-consequence decisions

When a decision is large, irreversible or reputationally exposed, database-only checks are insufficient. Our EDD is investigative: source of wealth is verified, adverse media is triangulated, open leads are pursued.

// Scope of work
  • 01Customer Due Diligence (CDD) and Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD)
  • 02Executive and board-level background investigations
  • 03Investor, LP and counterparty diligence for funds and family offices
  • 04M&A and pre-transaction target diligence
  • 05Third-party, vendor and channel-partner diligence
  • 06Source of wealth and source of funds verification
  • 07PEP, sanctions and adverse media analysis
// Outcome

"A written record that supports the decision either way — and holds up under scrutiny."

§ 004INV
04
Ref / CIG-SVC-04

Corporate intelligence, investigations and litigation support

Our investigators include former financial regulators, prosecutors, government intelligence analysts and forensic accountants. We take on the questions that internal teams cannot answer without independence.

// Scope of work
  • 01Fraud investigations and internal misconduct reviews
  • 02Asset tracing and hidden-asset recovery support
  • 03Litigation support and disputes intelligence
  • 04Reputational and adverse media investigations
  • 05Insider threat and executive protection intelligence
  • 06Digital and OSINT-led investigations
  • 07Cryptocurrency and on-chain forensic tracing
// Outcome

"A defensible, evidence-led picture — with distinctions between confirmed, corroborated and unverified."

§ 005RSK
05
Ref / CIG-SVC-05

Enterprise, geopolitical and third-party risk

Risk is a portfolio, not a checkbox. We help clients understand where exposure concentrates across counterparties, jurisdictions, sectors and time.

// Scope of work
  • 01Geopolitical risk analysis and country risk briefings
  • 02Sanctions exposure, secondary sanctions and cross-border risk
  • 03Third-party and vendor risk assessments at scale
  • 04Sector-specific risk scoring methodologies
  • 05Cyber-adjacent business intelligence and threat context
  • 06Reputational risk analysis and stakeholder mapping
// Outcome

"A clear-eyed view of where the next problem is likely to originate."

§ 006MON
06
Ref / CIG-SVC-06

Continuous monitoring — a clean file today is a stale file tomorrow

A customer, executive or counterparty who is clean at onboarding is not clean forever. Our monitoring is calibrated per subject, per risk, per jurisdiction — not a generic screening rerun.

// Scope of work
  • 01Sanctions and watchlist monitoring across global lists
  • 02PEP and adverse media monitoring, sentiment-weighted
  • 03Ownership and corporate structure change alerts
  • 04Litigation, insolvency and regulatory action monitoring
  • 05Executive and beneficial owner life-event monitoring
  • 06Case-managed alert triage with human sign-off
// Outcome

"Fewer, better alerts — routed to the person who can act on them."

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