Built by practitioners. Enhanced by technology.

Financial crime intelligence, investigated end to end.

KYCifi is a specialist financial crime consultancy. Our practitioners — with senior experience at Big Four firms and banks — run the AML, KYC and due diligence work regulators expect, supported by LÆdar AI, the platform we built to map ownership, surface risk and assemble audit-ready cases.

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Practitioner-led. Fixed-fee. Audit-ready.

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Experience gained at
KPMG Deloitte Bank of New York Mellon HSBC
laedar / case-2026-0613 Illustrative example
EntityMeridian Holdings Ltd
JurisdictionUnited Kingdom
Companies House14820391
Identifying company…
Sanctions & PEPQueued
Adverse mediaQueued
· / 100 risk
Assessing
Output
Audit-ready PDF
Trusted intelligence for Banks Crypto & Digital Assets Fintechs Payment Providers EMIs & MSBs Law Firms
Specialist expertise

A specialist financial crime consultancy.

KYCifi is, first, a specialist AML and KYC practice. Our team has spent careers inside Big Four firms and banks running the reviews, investigations and remediation regulators expect, across every core financial crime discipline.

AML Compliance

Programmes, controls and advisory designed for regulated firms.

AML FrameworksRisk AssessmentsPolicy Reviews

KYC & Due Diligence

From onboarding to periodic review, delivering CDD and EDD to regulatory standard.

KYC OnboardingCustomer Due DiligenceEnhanced Due Diligence

Screening Intelligence

Sanctions, PEP and adverse media screening with analyst-ready outputs.

Sanctions ScreeningPEP IdentificationAdverse Media

Ownership Intelligence

UBO tracing and corporate structure analysis.

Ownership MappingUBO DiscoveryCorporate Structures

Regulatory Compliance

Frameworks, policies, governance and remediation.

Compliance FrameworksPolicies & ProceduresRemediation

Regulatory Readiness

Audit-ready documentation and supervisor-grade evidence.

Audit Ready FilesEvidence PacksRegulatory Support
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The investigation, unfolded

From a single name to a defensible case.

Our specialists run every investigation the same disciplined way. They bring the judgement; the platform does the legwork and produces a documented, defensible decision.

01

Company data

Pull live Companies House records, filings and corporate structure for any entity in seconds.

Registry · Filings
02

Ownership mapping

Beneficial ownership traced recursively through every layer, with PSC discrepancies surfaced for review.

UBO · PSC
03

Risk detection

Screen against 40+ sanctions, PEP and adverse media sources, scored and explained, not just flagged.

Sanctions · Media
04

Case preparation

Receive a structured rationale, risk rating and downloadable report, defensible and audit-ready.

Rationale · PDF
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The platform

The platform behind our specialists.

LÆdar AI is the platform our practitioners built to support delivery — evidence of our expertise, not a replacement for it. It maps ownership, surfaces corporate intelligence, screens against global lists and assembles the evidence, so our specialists spend their time on judgement, not legwork. Every finding is documented for a person to decide; nothing is auto-approved. Every module, including PVARA workflows, runs on it.

LÆdar AI · Intelligence Platform

LÆdar AI

Recursive ownership tracing, sanctions and PEP screening, adverse media and AI-assisted adjudication. Every finding is documented and handed to an analyst to decide.

  • UBO tracing
  • Sanctions & PEP
  • Adverse media
  • Analyst rationale
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Modules within LÆdar AI

Company Intelligence

Live registry data, directors and recursive UBO mapping for any entity.

Screening Intelligence

Sanctions, PEP and adverse media across 40+ global lists, explainably scored.

Ownership Mapping

Control structures and beneficial owners traced through every corporate layer.

Risk Intelligence

Red flags, discrepancies and risk indicators, scored and explained for review.

PVARA Workflows

NOC readiness, VASP CDD, Travel Rule and goAML, as modules within LÆdar AI.

Regulatory Workflows

Audit-ready records and reporting, documented to the standard supervisors expect.
No.1 Spinningfields, Manchester's financial district, home of the KYCifi practice
Institutional expertise

The intelligence of a Big Four team, with specialists you can engage today.

Built by professionals with senior financial crime compliance experience at firms including KPMG, Deloitte and Bank of New York. That experience is encoded into every workflow.

12+
Years financial crime experience
40+
Global sanctions & PEP lists
8
Regulated markets served
15+
Compliance tools built
Built by practitioners

People who have sat on the other side of the review.

KYCifi is built by professionals with senior experience at firms including KPMG, Deloitte, Bank of New York and HSBC, working from No.1 Spinningfields in the heart of Manchester's financial district. The judgement that comes from real casework is built into every decision we make.

Bilal Akhtar, Founder of KYCifi
Who you'll work with
"We built KYCifi so a single analyst can run an investigation to the standard a regulator expects, with the speed a modern business demands."
Bilal Akhtar · Founder & Lead Compliance Consultant
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No.1 Spinningfields, Manchester's financial district, home of the KYCifi practice
No.1 Spinningfields
KYCifi lounge overlooking the Spinningfields courtyard
KYCifi office lounge and staircase at No.1 Spinningfields
The studio
The difference it makes

What changes when KYCifi runs the work.

Less time lost to manual research, more confidence behind every decision — practitioner judgement and LÆdar AI working on the outcomes that matter to your team.

Faster corporate investigations

Company, ownership and risk assembled in one connected review instead of pieced together across disconnected tools.

Improved ownership visibility

Beneficial owners and control structures traced through every corporate layer, with PSC discrepancies surfaced.

Defensible, audit-ready decisions

A documented rationale behind every decision, the standard supervisors expect, available on demand.

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Anonymised case study

From a four-layer structure to an audit-ready pack.

How our specialists resolved a complex ownership picture for a fintech under bank review — with LÆdar AI assembling the evidence behind them.

Fintech company Under bank review Client and identifying details anonymised

The challenge

  • Four-layer ownership structure
  • 11 connected entities across three jurisdictions
  • Bank review already under way
  • Ownership and source of funds required

Work we completed

  • Ownership mapping across all 11 entities
  • Beneficial ownership analysis
  • Source of funds review
  • 37 supporting documents reviewed and indexed

Outcome

  • Audit-ready UBO package
  • Audit-ready source of funds pack
  • Submission package prepared for the reviewing bank
48 hoursFrom instruction to delivered packs
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Start with a free review

A specialist review, before any commitment.

Each review is led by a senior practitioner — a focused, expert assessment of where you stand, not an automated tool. No cost, no obligation.

AML Health Check

Identify gaps in your AML framework before regulators, partners or auditors do.

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Compliance Gap Review

Independent review of policies, controls, governance and compliance effectiveness.

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PVARA Readiness Assessment

Understand potential readiness gaps before applying, launching or expanding operations.

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KYC Process Review

Assess onboarding, screening and due diligence workflows to improve efficiency and consistency.

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Speak to the specialists who'll run your investigation.

Book a 15-minute consultation. We'll discuss your situation and show how KYCifi takes a single company name to a fully documented, audit-ready case.

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Practitioner-led. Fixed-fee. Audit-ready.

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