Agora Consulting Solutions — UK Anti-Financial Crime Consultancy & RegTech

Anti-financial crime expertise, built for UK regulated firms. Agora Consulting Solutions delivers financial crime remediation, BAU AML operations, and RegTech that reduces the cost and risk of staying compliant for UK regulated financial services firms.

Agora Consulting Solutions Ltd is a UK private limited company registered with Companies House (number 15953144). We operate exclusively in the United Kingdom and serve regulated financial services firms supervised by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA).

Who we work with

UK regulated firms across motor finance, building societies, asset management, private banking, payments, and specialist lending — from mid-market institutions to challengers. We work with MLROs, Heads of Financial Crime, COOs, and Chief Risk Officers under regulatory pressure, scaling pressure, or both.

Motor finance lenders
Building societies
Asset managers
Private banks and wealth managers
Payments and e-money institutions
Specialist and challenger lenders

What we do

1. Financial crime remediation

Backlog clearance, UBO refresh programmes, enhanced due diligence (EDD) reviews, periodic review programmes, and Section 166 / skilled person remediation. We bring methodology, supervision, and analyst capacity — not just bodies. Every remediation engagement produces an evidenced, regulator-defensible audit trail.

2. BAU AML operations

Outsourced and co-sourced AML capacity covering customer due diligence (CDD), ongoing monitoring, alert investigation, SAR drafting, and periodic review. UK-staffed, BS 7858:2019 vetted analysts supervised by senior practitioners with current Senior Manager Function (SMF) experience. Dedicated teams, pooled capacity, surge support, or transaction-priced — whichever fits your operating model.

3. RegTech that earns its place

Our RegTech is built for the realities of UK financial crime compliance, not generic global use cases:

Customer Due Diligence (CDD) — full UK legal-form coverage including charities, trusts, partnerships, LLPs, and complex structures. Integrated with Companies House (post-ECCTA), credit bureau data, sanctions, PEP and adverse media screening.
Beneficial Ownership Verification — post-ECCTA Companies House data combined with credit reference bureau enrichment. Two-tier verification model defensible to regulators, with documented handling for layered ownership chains, foreign-owned entities, and dormant or insolvent entities.
Transaction Monitoring — risk-based monitoring tuned to your portfolio and typology library. Rule-based and behavioural detection, threshold tuning, integrated case management, and SAR workflow. Fewer false positives, better true positives, decisions your auditor can defend.
BAU AML Operations — managed analyst capacity wrapped around the platform when you need delivery, not just software.

Why firms choose Agora

Senior practitioners, not graduate analysts. Every engagement is led by someone who has held the seat you are buying for.
UK-built, UK-staffed, UK-supervised. Your data does not leave the jurisdiction. Your analysts speak to your case officers in the same time zone.
Methodology you can defend to a regulator. We document everything because you might one day need to.
Technology where it adds leverage, humans where judgement matters. Not a body shop and not a faceless platform.
Commercial models that match your shape. Project, retainer, transaction-priced, or pooled analyst — whichever fits.

Where we focus

JMLSG-aligned methodology designed to satisfy SYSC and SUP supervisory expectations. Coverage of the Money Laundering Regulations 2017 (as amended), the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (ECCTA), Companies House identity verification rollout, UK sanctions regime (OFSI), and FCA Financial Crime Guide (FCG) expectations.

How to engage

Most engagements start with a 20-minute scoping call. We use it to understand the regulatory pressure you are under, the operational shape of the problem, and whether we are genuinely the right firm for it. From there, engagements typically take one of three shapes: a defined remediation project, an ongoing BAU operations partnership, or a RegTech platform deployment with optional managed-service wrap.

Email contact@agoraconsulting.ai to book a scoping call.

About Agora

Founded by senior practitioners with combined experience across tier-one banks, challenger banks, and regulated lenders. Delivery is led by senior staff with current SMF experience and a track record across UK financial crime transformation programmes. We are not a recruiter, not a body shop, and not a generalist consultancy — anti-financial crime is what we do.