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Rebuilt a financial crime function under regulatory deadline

Digital Bank

24 / 24
Roles filled
7 weeks
Ahead of deadline
First pass
Regulatory sign-off
9
Contract-to-perm conversions

The challenge

Following a supervisory review, the bank had six months to rebuild its financial crime team — 24 roles including the function head — while under active regulatory scrutiny.

What we did

  • Appointed the function head within five weeks through a targeted search of regulated-firm remediation leads.
  • Ran the remaining 23 roles as a single project with weekly reporting shared directly with the bank's regulator-facing team.
  • Screened every candidate against the specific supervisory findings, not a generic AML brief.
They understood that every hire had to stand up to a regulator's questions. That framing changed who they put in front of us.
Chief Risk Officer, Digital Bank

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