The practical resolution of complex risk challenges
Kompass helps boards, executives and investors identify and assess the risks within an organisation, remediate them and evidence that they have been resolved. We work with financial institutions and businesses internationally, with deep roots across EMEA. Our partners and senior management bring senior experience from global banking, compliance leadership, law enforcement and national financial intelligence, and we build the analytics and tools our clients use to manage risk.
Financial crime and sanctions training is delivered in partnership with the Institute for Financial Integrity (IFI).
Trusted advisors with direct industry experience
Our partners have held senior positions in industry, law enforcement and government across the GCC, Europe and Africa, supported by a team of industry experts.
Global standards, applied with regional depth
Our advice draws on international standards and the practice of leading jurisdictions, applied to the business model and supervisory expectations of each institution.
Standards
FATF recommendations, the EU AI Act and ISO/IEC 42001, alongside UN, OFAC, EU and UK sanctions regimes, applied to local obligations.
Regulators
Experience with GCC regulators as Skilled Person and Monitor on financial crime remediation, and in drafting new supervisory standards.
Institutions
Senior roles in global banks across EMEA, in national financial intelligence and in law enforcement, in the GCC, Europe and Africa.
Integrated services across compliance, fraud, digital and AI governance
- Board and executive advisoryIndependent advice to the board
- Regulatory remediationRemediation through to regulatory closure
- Financial crime complianceEffective AML, CFT and sanctions programs
- Fraud risk and investigationsReducing fraud loss while protecting customers
- Digital transformationRealizing the value of compliance technology, with a free readiness assessment
- AI governanceGovernance frameworks that operate in practice, with a free readiness assessment
- TrainingFCC and sanctions training with the Institute for Financial Integrity
- DOLFIN®Continuing education for compliance professionals
Clearly defined initial engagements
Typical initial engagements include an effectiveness review of transaction monitoring and screening, a fraud loss diagnostic, or an AI governance readiness review, on a fixed fee basis.