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, regulatory compliance program services, and litigation support, including:

  • Financial Institutions

  • Banks

  • Credit Unions

  • Money Services Businesses

  • Digital Assets

  • Centralized Finance (CeFi)

  • FinTechs

  • RegTechs

  • Industry Solution Providers

  • 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.

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Financial Crime Investigations

We provide strategic and operational support for financial crime investigations, helping organizations identify risks, uncover complex activity, prepare FinCEN reporting, provide comprehensive investigation and litigation support, and collaborate with law enforcement. Our services are trusted by financial institutions, legal teams, and public-sector agencies alike.

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  • Financial Crime Investigation Advisory

  • Litigation Support

  • Due Diligence Investigations

  • White Collar Crime Investigations

  • Compliance & Ethics Counseling

  • Financial Intelligence Reporting

  • Community Awareness Outreach Initiatives

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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, or for external parties, such as counterparties or prospective investors for high-value investment transactions, including for joint ventures 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.

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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), Anti-Bribery and Corruption (ABC), and sanctions (OFAC) requirements through managed services and backlog support.

Our capabilities include:

  • Onboarding and periodic CDD/AML reviews

  • Ongoing CDD/EDD monitoring

  • Transaction monitoring

  • Specialized transaction monitoring rule creation

  • 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