Serving financial institutions navigating U.S. and cross-border regulatory obligations since 2009.
Our work is consulting, not transactional. We stay close to each client, close enough to understand the business, not just the compliance file. Every engagement is assigned to a senior consultant who retains that relationship indefinitely.
Cross-border risk, AML program integrity, governance structure, and exam readiness: these are the obligations that define regulatory posture. We advise on all of them, as a single continuous relationship.
We advise financial institutions operating between the U.S. and Latin America, firms that face regulatory demands no single-market framework adequately addresses. Our practice was built for that gap.
Sound compliance is constructed before scrutiny arrives. We help firms maintain documentation, controls, and policies that reflect their actual operations, calibrated to their risk profile.
We build AML frameworks, sanctions controls, and EDD procedures calibrated to the client's actual exposure, specific to the firm and not derived from a checklist applied uniformly.
Every client works with an assigned senior consultant who knows their business. High availability and continuity are not service options; they are how we work.
Identifying a regulatory obligation is the beginning. We support the full operationalization: implementation, monitoring processes, evidence documentation, and internal adoption.
Identifying a regulatory obligation is the beginning. We support the full operationalization: implementation, monitoring processes, evidence documentation, and internal adoption.
Annual compliance reviews, outsourced CCO services, SEC registration support, and exam preparation. Our RIA practice is the largest segment of our client base.
AML programs, supervisory controls, and FINRA compliance structures for domestic and international broker-dealers, including dual registrants with cross-border books.
Cross-border AML frameworks, EDD programs, BSA compliance, and regulatory risk assessments calibrated to the bank's jurisdictional exposure.
BSA/AML compliance programs, transaction monitoring procedures, and regulatory readiness protocols for MSBs across multiple jurisdictions.
Compliance infrastructure, governance frameworks, and the regulatory obligations arising from investment activities and complex client structures.
Subject-matter depth, regulatory interpretation, and practical execution support, working directly alongside CCOs, many of whom our consultants have been themselves.
A selection of the institutions we have worked with.
“What holds under scrutiny is built before it arrives.”
International Compliance Solutions
Investment Advisers Act · Regulation S-P · Marketing Rule · Form ADV
Rules 3110 · 3130 · 4370 · 4511 · Reg BI · Dual Registrant Supervision
AML Program Requirements · SAR Obligations · CDD Rule · Beneficial Ownership
Sanctions Compliance · SDN Screening · GTO Compliance · PEP Programs
Foreign Corrupt Practices · FATCA Reporting · Cross-Border Tax Compliance
Jurisdictional Compliance Across Latin America, including Colombia · Panama · Venezuela · Mexico · Ecuador · Peru · Argentina · Uruguay · Chile
MSB Licenses · Credit Lending Licenses · State Registrations (RIA / Broker-Dealers)
Active expertise across the regulatory regimes relevant to financial institutions operating between the U.S. and Latin America.
On September 15, 2026, the SEC approved FINRA Rule 3290, consolidating Rules 3270 and 3280 into a single rule governing registered persons' outside activities. The details now matter for firms updating their policies.
The SEC's Division of Examinations has published a Risk Alert on one of the most fundamental, and most frequently cited, compliance obligations for investment advisers: the annual compliance review under Rule 206(4)-7.
On September 16, 2026, the SEC approved a FINRA proposal consolidating Rules 3270 and 3280 into Rule 3290, reshaping how broker-dealers oversee registered representatives' outside business activities after nearly a decade of debate.
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Our consulting model requires proximity to each client. We keep our client base selective; it is the condition of the service we provide.