Advisory that stands up to scrutiny
North Star provides senior anti-money laundering and financial crime advisory to regulated businesses that expect more than a template. Every engagement is delivered personally by an experienced practitioner, shaped around your regulatory obligations, and finished with the precision that regulators, banking partners and boards expect to see.
Our services
We work three ways, shaped around who you are. Pick your track below — or start with an AML Health Check.
For banks, payments & fintechs
You're scaling customers, markets or products, and your financial crime controls need to mature alongside the business.
- Fractional MLRO / Nominated Officer
- AML programme across the full lifecycle
- Licensing & regulator readiness
- KYC/KYB & banking-partner support
For compliance-tech vendors
Your product is strong; now it needs practitioner credibility to win and keep sceptical, regulated buyers.
- Go-to-market & buyer positioning
- Product review & compliance validation
- Vendor benchmarking
- Detection & model efficacy validation
For KYC & CDD operations
You run KYC, CDD and monitoring for regulated clients, and need to deliver to the standard their regulators expect.
- Remediation & programme management
- Process excellence & optimisation
- AI & automation enablement
- Metrics, SLAs & quality assurance
AML Health Check
A rapid, independent review of your AML framework: where you stand, where the gaps are, and what to fix first. A clear, prioritised picture in weeks, not months.
Book a Health Check- Policies
- Governance
- Controls
- Monitoring
- Risk assessment
Three ways to work together
Engage us on an hourly rate, a monthly retainer, or a scoped engagement. We're flexible on duration — from a few hours of senior counsel to long-term programmes.
Hourly
Senior advice on demand. Perfect for a second opinion, a tricky escalation, or targeted input on a live issue, with no minimum commitment.
Retainer
One to two days a week of ongoing senior support. Priority availability for your team, board and regulator conversations as they arise.
Engagement
A scoped piece of work with defined deliverables: a health check, a remediation, a licence application. Short or long term, delivered end to end.
All rates in USD, and a starting point, not a fixed menu. Tell us what you need and we'll scope it →