For hedge funds, prop trading firms and market makers

Compliance, engineered for trading firms.

Get authorised, build the framework and run it — with a former FCA approved CCO. Hand it over to your own team when you’re ready.

Book a 30-minute call Try the FCA readiness review

Former FCA approved CCO
Has held SMF 16 & SMF 17
FCA Part 4A authorisation

James Lane
15 years in legal, compliance and risk at

Linklaters
HSBC
Citadel Securities
IMC
Engineers Gate

Wherever you are, start here.

Pick the stage that sounds like you. Each one leads to what we do, how it works and what you get.

Launching

Spinning out, or applying for FCA authorisation for the first time.

Part 4A application
SMF 16/17 cover
Entity and SMA structuring Launching a firm → 02

Scaling

Controls, surveillance and reporting that keep pace with the business.

MAR and RTS 6
CPMI and fund launches
MiFIDPRU Scaling up → 03

Remediating

Close the gaps before an investor, auditor or the FCA finds them.

ODD findings
Risk framework
SMF separation Fixing gaps → 04

Automating

Put AI at the centre of your compliance function — built in-house, not licensed.

Policy library
Surveillance models
Monitoring and testing AI-led compliance →

Two kinds of firm. One standard.

New and growing firms

Senior compliance leadership, without the full-time hire.

Fractional CCO and MLRO cover, authorisation and a working framework from day one. Where James holds SMF 16/17 directly, it is structured in line with FCA expectations and assessed firm by firm.

How fractional CCO works →

Established firms

The change your team hasn’t got time to deliver.

Your SMFs are in place. We own discrete delivery — new markets, offices, funds, authorisations and spin-outs — or rebuild how compliance works with AI at the centre.

Projects and AI transformation →

We build it. We run it. You own it.

How we work →

Build
Policies, surveillance, reporting and governance designed around how you actually trade.
Operate
We run the function day to day, hosted externally for as long as you want it.
Transfer
When it makes sense, we help hire your team and hand it over. Or we build in-house from day one.