Private Sector
We work with a variety of financial institutions and corporate clients to provide financial crime investigations, compliance program services, and litigation support.
Who We Work With
We work with a variety of financial institutions, fintechs, including crypto and digital asset companies, and other corporate clients to provide financial crime investigations, risk management and compliance program services, and litigation support, including:
Financial Institutions:
Banks
Credit Unions
Money Services Businesses
Corporate Clients:
FinTechs
Law Firms
Investment Firms
Energy Companies
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Investigations & Asset Tracing
Conduct specialized investigations and asset tracing.
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Due Diligence & Remediation
Provide due diligence and remediation support.
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Compliance Frameworks
Strengthen compliance frameworks to meet regulatory requirements.
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Education & Training Programs
Deliver actionable intelligence for education and training programs.
Financial Crimes Investigations
We provide strategic and operational support for financial crime investigations, helping organizations identify risks, uncover complex activity, prepare FinCEN reporting, and collaborate with law enforcement. Our services are trusted by financial institutions, legal teams, and public-sector agencies alike.
Ongoing or ad-hoc case advisory
SAR investigations
Investigative due diligence reports
Asset tracing for criminal and civil cases
Open-source intelligence (OSINT) investigations, including decentralized, deep, and dark web research
Typology development to detect emerging financial crime patterns
Fact and expert witness testimony
Cross-sector collaboration between financial institutions and law enforcement
In-person, virtual, or self-paced financial crime training
Compliance & Risk Management Services
We provide expert compliance and risk management services tailored to your organization's unique exposure to financial crime risks. Our team helps you implement, evaluate, and enhance anti-financial crime frameworks to ensure regulatory alignment and operational integrity.
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We are experienced with SAR operations and FIU management and understand how law enforcement uses Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) to support investigations, gather intelligence, and build prosecutable cases. We incorporate this public-sector perspective into our SAR training, process design, and program development to ensure your filings are actionable and impactful.
We help organizations develop and strengthen their SAR programs, including:
SAR policy review and enhancement
Investigation framework design
Narrative development and quality assurance
Workflow optimization to meet regulatory deadlines
SAR preparation and filing with FinCEN
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Our team has deep experience in compliance audit remediation and regulatory response. We provide hands-on guidance to rebuild and reinforce compliance programs under regulatory scrutiny.
Remediation services include:
Historical SAR Lookback Reviews
Historical Transaction Lookback Reviews
Historical KYC Reviews
Case Backlog Management
Quality Assurance and Quality Control
Reporting Frameworks and KPI Metrics Development
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We provide ongoing and historical transaction monitoring support including rules creation, testing, and ongoing review, analysis, and assessment of customer activity and financial transactions to identify unusual, suspicious, or potentially illicit behavior in order to help organizations detect and respond to indicators of fraud, money laundering, terrorist financing, sanctions violations, and other financial crimes in real time or near real time.
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We partner with your team to establish or strengthen your third-party risk management program. This includes oversight frameworks and controls for vendors and external platforms.
Our support includes:
Third-party program design and implementation
Integration support with external platforms or systems
Oversight and governance documentation
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We develop custom training programs designed to meet regulatory expectations and internal needs. Whether you need annual, auditable training or targeted modules for specific teams, we deliver engaging and practical content.
We also offer specialized training on:
Human trafficking typologies
Financial scams and fraud tactics
Specified adult abuse indicators
Child sexual exploitation detection
Investigative Due Diligence
Enhanced Due Diligence & Investigative Reports
Our due diligence reports are in-depth and cover a range of risks, including reputational harm, financial crime, political exposure, regulatory breaches, corruption, litigation, and more.
Whether the third party is a customer undergoing a KYC refresh, prospective investors for a high-value investment transaction, such as a real estate transaction or mergers and acquisitions (M&As), or for a prospective or current company executive or board member, we ensure you know what your risk exposure is.
Our due diligence and screening reports may include:
Open Source Intelligence: Surface, deep, and dark web research; social media analysis; adverse media screening
Political & Compliance Checks: PEP identification, political affiliations, sanctions and watch lists, regulatory actions
Legal & Financial Records: Litigation, court filings, tax liens, judgments, asset/property ownership, beneficial ownership
Corporate & Professional Verification: Corporate records, public filings, licenses, and professional designations
Compliance Outsourcing
FinTrace offers scalable compliance support for financial institutions, fintech companies, and regulated entities.
We also support regulated entities in meeting ongoing Fraud prevention, Know Your Customer (KYC), Anti-Money Laundering (AML), and OFAC requirements through managed services and backlog support.
Our capabilities include:
Onboarding and periodic CDD/AML reviews
Ongoing CDD/EDD monitoring
Transaction monitoring
Historical KYC review and lookbacks
Review backlogs and provide case backlog management
SAR investigations and FinCEN reporting
Historical transaction reviews and SAR lookbacks
Quality control (QC) and quality assurance (QA) functions