Senior practitioners, not generic consultants
You work directly with someone who has built and run these functions in-house at banks, payments firms, fintechs and crypto businesses. Not a team of juniors working from a template.
Who we work with
We work with fintechs, payment platforms, and banks at critical compliance inflection points, when the stakes are highest and generic advice isn't enough.
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Financially Regulated Institutions
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
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RegTech & Compliance Tech
We open warm routes to compliance buyers, validate products against real-world expectations, and help vendors earn the trust that wins deals.
- Warm access to compliance buyers
- Go-to-market & buyer positioning
- Product review & compliance validation
- Detection & model efficacy validation
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Business Process Outsourcers
You deliver KYC, CDD, and monitoring operations for regulated clients. We help you run them to the standard your clients and their regulators expect.
- Remediation & programme management
- Process excellence & optimisation
- AI & automation enablement
- Metrics, SLAs & quality assurance
We're usually brought in when…
If one of these sounds familiar, you're in the right place.
We're preparing for a licence application.
You need confidence your AML framework is regulator-ready.
Our controls worked at 10k customers, but not at 1m.
You need processes that scale with the business.
We have remediation work but limited internal bandwidth.
You need senior expertise, quickly.
Our product is strong, but buyers want compliance credibility.
You need real AML domain expertise behind the product.
Why organisations choose North Star Advisory Group
Because, when it matters, this is what they need in the room.
Practical recommendations, not theoretical frameworks
Findings you can act on, prioritised by risk and written for the people who have to implement them. No eighty-page report that reads well and then sits on a shelf.
Independent challenge when your team needs support
An outside read that holds up under scrutiny: a second opinion you can defend, a gap surfaced before a regulator finds it, or steady cover through a period of pressure.
Experience with how regulators actually behave
Two decades of financial crime work across the UK (FCA), Singapore (MAS), the EU and wider APAC, so the advice reflects real supervisory expectations, not just how the guidance reads.
Two decades of financial crime work across banks, payments, fintech and crypto
Financially regulated institutions
RegTech & compliance tech
ComplyOne
Business process outsourcers
KPMG
What clients and colleagues say
A few words from people who've worked with Phil, sourced from LinkedIn.
"I needed someone who could pick up a complex financial crime problem quickly and run with it without much hand-holding. Phil did exactly that: he took ownership against a tight deadline and left it in better shape than he found it. Low ego, clear in writing, always happy to be challenged."
"Phil is a strong and positive leader. His depth of knowledge and experience in the financial crime space, combined with his technical understanding, allows him to deliver robust and effective control programmes."
"One of the most passionate and innovative managers I've worked with: a renowned SME in AML and financial crime analytics who knows how to combine that with real technical strength to deliver the best outcome for clients."
Need an independent AML read?
A confidential conversation to understand your challenge, spot the gaps, and decide whether we can help. The first call is free.