About Us
Practitioners First. Consultants Second.
We founded Optimised Compliance because we saw a gap in the market — a need for consultants who had genuinely lived the challenges they were being asked to solve.
Our Background
Built by People Who Have Been in Your Position
Our team brings together years of deep expertise across financial crime and compliance operations, having held senior roles at financial institutions and leading FinCrime technology vendors. We have led complex technology integrations, built and tuned detection models, navigated major regulatory change programmes, and managed large-scale remediation exercises.
That experience gives us something most consultancies cannot offer: a genuine understanding of the pressures, constraints, and trade-offs that financial crime professionals face every day. We know what good looks like — and we know how to get there from where you are now.
We work exclusively with financial institutions and FinCrime technology teams, which means our knowledge stays sharp and our advice stays relevant. We are not generalist management consultants who have added financial crime to a long list of practice areas — this is all we do.
How We Work
Our Principles
Practitioner Expertise
Every member of our team has held senior roles at financial institutions or leading FinCrime vendors. We bring real-world experience, not theoretical frameworks.
Impartial Advice
We are not tied to any vendor or technology. Our recommendations are driven entirely by what is right for your business — commercially and operationally.
Commercial Awareness
We understand the commercial pressures our clients face. Our solutions are designed to deliver measurable outcomes within realistic budgets and timelines.
Flexible Delivery
UK-based senior consultants supported by a high-quality near-shore team in Spain — giving clients the right blend of expertise and cost-effectiveness.
Team Credentials
Experience That Speaks for Itself
Our consultants have collectively spent decades working at the sharp end of financial crime — in the institutions that face the risk, and at the vendors that build the tools to manage it. That dual perspective is rare, and it is what makes our advice genuinely useful.
- Senior compliance and operations roles at tier-1 UK and European banks
- Product and delivery leadership at major FinCrime technology vendors
- Direct experience with AML, fraud, sanctions, and KYC programmes
- Hands-on delivery of complex technology integrations and migrations
- Regulatory engagement and change management across multiple jurisdictions
- Look-back, remediation, and managed service delivery at scale
- Data science and model development for financial crime detection
- Commercial negotiation and vendor management expertise
Areas of Deep Expertise
Where We Operate
UK Expertise. European Reach.
United Kingdom
Our senior consulting team is UK-based, with deep knowledge of the FCA regulatory environment and the UK financial services market. We support clients across London and the wider UK.
Spain (Near-shore)
Our near-shore function in Spain provides high-quality, cost-effective resource for managed services, look-backs, and remediation work — operating to the same standards as our UK team.
Work With a Team That Understands Your World
Get in touch to discuss how our experience can help strengthen your financial crime function.