Where it begins
Consult
We work out what your obligations actually are, what risk and compliance tooling you need, and how robust it has to be.
We work out what the regulation requires, test the controls you have, and build the ones you don’t.
The law sets the mandate. Every regulated business must maintain a compliance program. The Risk-Based Approach (RBA) we take defines the execution, not a rigid, one-size-fits-all checklist that hurts your business by treating every customer and transaction the same. We design the controls a regulator expects, without stalling what you are building.
Ask our AI agentHow the work fits together
It starts with a conversation.
Everything we do begins by understanding your business. What we learn there becomes the framework you are measured against, and the software we build for you runs on what that measurement finds.
What follows
Assess
We measure where the business stands, using our own instruments rather than a consultant’s spreadsheet.
What follows
Build
We ship the software that holds the line, whether that is a product we already run or something built for your workflow.
And it comes back round: what your software observes becomes the next assessment.
What we assess
Five instruments, one engine.
Run as an engagement, or licensed so your own team runs it.
Product Compliance Product Risk Assessment The compliance risk of a single product, or a change to one. Open › Enterprise Business-Wide Risk Assessment Enterprise risk across governance, fraud, security and financial crime. Open › Entity AML / ATF Money laundering and terrorist financing exposure across clients, products, channels and geography. Open › Entity Sanctions Screening, ownership, payment routes, and the failures that put firms in front of a regulator. Open › Entity Fraud Fraud of every kind, external and first-party, internal and vendor, as a documented risk profile. Open ›
What we build
Software already running, not a proposal.
Every dev shop offers to build you a tool. All of these are running today. Northward Screening has a free trial.
8 sanctions lists Northward Screening Sanctions, PEP and adverse-media screening, with crypto wallet and email addresses as add-ons. Screen, manage matches to a decision, and stay alerted when a match’s status later changes. Open
Product level Compliance Product Risk Assessment Score the compliance risk of a single product or a change to one, covering probability, impact, controls and routing to the right reviewer. Open
Enterprise wide Business-Wide Risk Assessment Assess enterprise risk across governance, fraud, security and financial crime, with the whole business in one register. Open
One guided interview Policy Studio Draft a linked set of AML policies and procedures from one guided interview, correct for your jurisdiction and consistent with each other. Open
The offer, stated plainly
Two things are free. Everything else starts with a conversation.
We would rather you saw the work before you paid for it. Both give a real result, both are one per organisation, and both arrive by email.
- Talk to us
- CPRA, BWRA, Policy Studio, AML and Fraud assessments, all consulting
Free, one per organisation
Sanctions risk assessment
Work down the real sanctions risks and judge your controls against each. A real rating, emailed to you.
Run the assessmentFree, one per organisation
Screening check
Screen several names at once against all eight sanctions lists we run. Results emailed to you.
Screen names Start here Start with the question you actually have. Whether that is an examination coming up, a jurisdiction you have
just become exposed to, or a screening vendor you are about to sign with. Talk to us
Free, one per organisation See a real sanctions rating before you pay for anything. Run the free assessment
Free, one per organisation Screen names against all eight lists we run. Screen names