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AJC has partnered with RiskPod to provide payments firms with flexible, specialist support to build, strengthen and scale their financial crime compliance operations. The partnership combines AJC’s compliance, risk and advisory expertise with RiskPod’s ability to rapidly mobilise specialist financial crime resources through its AI-enabled marketplace.
Together, this gives organisations access to both the expertise needed to understand and address their compliance challenges and the additional resources required to put that support into practice. Engagements can be shaped around individual requirements, from providing specialist support for a defined project through to mobilising larger teams to help manage remediation programmes, increased workloads or ongoing financial crime compliance activity.
RiskPod provides access to a global network of vetted, tested and verified compliance specialists, helping organisations quickly access expertise across areas including Know Your Customer (KYC), Anti-Money Laundering (AML), transaction monitoring and wider financial crime compliance.
Through its AI-enabled marketplace, RiskPod can mobilise individual specialists or larger teams depending on an organisation’s requirements. This provides firms with a flexible way to increase compliance capacity when needed, without necessarily having to build permanent internal teams to manage short-term peaks in workload, remediation programmes or specific projects.
AJC brings complementary expertise across compliance, fraud, risk and financial services, helping organisations assess their current position, identify where improvements are needed and develop practical approaches to strengthening their controls. By working together, AJC and RiskPod can combine specialist advice with the operational resources needed to implement and support that work.
Financial crime compliance requirements can place significant operational demands on payments firms. Organisations may need additional capacity to manage increased onboarding volumes, address backlogs, respond to remediation requirements or strengthen existing controls, while continuing to meet regulatory and commercial expectations.
These pressures do not always justify recruiting a permanent team, and organisations may also need access to specialist skills that are difficult to maintain internally for every eventuality. In other cases, the requirement may be urgent, making the ability to bring in appropriately experienced people quickly particularly important.
The AJC and RiskPod partnership has been developed to address these challenges by combining compliance expertise, resources that can be mobilised at pace and support delivered around an organisation’s requirements. Rather than applying a standard model, the approach can be scaled and adapted according to the nature of the challenge, existing internal capability and the level of support required.
AJC provides compliance, risk and advisory expertise, helping organisations understand their requirements, assess existing arrangements and identify where improvements may be needed. This can include independent assessments, programme design, risk and compliance advice and practical support to help organisations strengthen their financial crime frameworks.
RiskPod complements this with access to specialist financial crime professionals who can be deployed to provide additional expertise and operational capacity. Depending on the engagement, this could mean supplementing an existing compliance team with an individual specialist or providing a larger team to deliver a defined programme of work.
Bringing these capabilities together means clients do not have to choose between strategic advice and additional delivery capacity. The partnership can provide both, helping organisations move from identifying a compliance issue or operational need through to putting the required support in place.
The combined offering can support organisations across a range of financial crime compliance activities, including:
Support can be scaled according to the nature and size of the requirement. This could involve providing an individual specialist to supplement an existing team, mobilising a complete team for a larger remediation exercise, carrying out an independent assessment or delivering a defined financial crime compliance project.
For organisations requiring more extensive support, the partnership can also provide a managed financial crime compliance service, bringing together specialist expertise and operational resource within a delivery model tailored to the organisation’s needs.
One of the key benefits of the partnership is its flexibility. Financial crime pressures do not always arise at predictable times, and the level of support required can change significantly depending on onboarding volumes, regulatory requirements, remediation activity or internal resource availability.
The ability to access additional specialist capacity without necessarily making permanent hires can help organisations respond more quickly to these changing demands. It can also provide access to particular expertise for a defined period or project, while allowing existing internal teams to remain focused on their core responsibilities.
Where appropriate, AJC can help organisations establish what support is required and shape the programme of work, while RiskPod can help provide the specialist resources needed to deliver it. This creates a practical route from identifying a problem through to mobilising the people required to address it.
Payments firms operate in an environment where financial crime risks, regulatory expectations and operational pressures continue to evolve. Maintaining effective compliance arrangements therefore requires not only appropriate frameworks and controls, but access to sufficient expertise and resources when they are needed.
By combining AJC’s compliance, risk and advisory experience with RiskPod’s specialist network and flexible resourcing capability, the partnership is designed to help payments firms respond more effectively to changing requirements, strengthen existing operations and manage periods of increased compliance demand.
Whether the requirement is additional capacity, specialist expertise, an independent assessment, a defined remediation programme or longer-term managed support, the aim is to provide a solution that reflects the organisation’s actual requirements rather than taking a one-size-fits-all approach.
To find out more about the AJC and RiskPod partnership and how it could support your organisation, contact us.
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