Financial Crime Risk Architecture
AML/KYC Compliance Programs
Risk-based AML/CFT and KYC programmes for businesses that need defensible controls, not generic templates.
From legal obligation to operating control
An AML/KYC programme is the operating system through which a regulated business decides who it will serve, what risk it will accept, how it will evidence those decisions and when it will refuse a relationship. Licensium maps the legal perimeter, products, customers, jurisdictions, payment rails and wallet activity before designing proportionate controls.
Our work covers enterprise risk assessment, customer and beneficial-owner due diligence, enhanced due diligence, sanctions and adverse-media screening, transaction monitoring, suspicious-activity escalation, record retention, staff training and MLRO governance. Every policy is connected to an owner, workflow, evidence standard and review cadence.
The result is a programme that can be implemented, tested and explained to a regulator, correspondent bank, auditor or acquiring partner. It is not a document pack placed on a shelf: it is a practical control framework designed around the actual business.
Core workstreams
- Risk assessment and appetite
- CDD, UBO and EDD
- Monitoring and escalation
- Governance and training