Internal Compliance Reviews for Financial Businesses
Looking honestly at your own compliance is harder than it sounds, because familiarity hides problems. We run internal compliance reviews that bring outside eyes to your obligations, so gaps surface early and you fix them on your own terms.
Seeing Your Own Compliance Clearly Again
Every business grows blind spots. Processes drift, people leave, obligations change, and what once worked quietly stops working. An internal compliance review is a deliberate look at where you actually stand, checking your obligations, records, controls, and practices against what is required, so problems are found by you rather than a regulator.
Reviews Sized to Your Needs
Not every review needs to be a full audit. Sometimes you want a broad look across the whole program, sometimes a focused check on one obligation that worries you, and sometimes a quick read before a regulator visits. We scope each review to the question you actually have, and give you findings in plain language with clear priorities.
Scope Review
We scope each review around the questions that actually concern you.
Check Obligations
We check your practices against the obligations that really apply here.
Report Findings
We report findings in plain language with clear practical priorities attached.
Support Fixes
We help you act on what the review has actually found.
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Businesses We Support and Guide
We run internal compliance reviews for payment service providers, money services businesses, currency dealers, crypto businesses, and many of the other financial businesses that genuinely must satisfy the whole of Canadian regulation.
We support banks with program design, oversight, & regulatory examination readiness.
We help credit unions meet obligations proportionate to their membership and scale.
We handle registration, renewals, reporting, & controls FINTRAC expects from you.
We cover Bank of Canada registration alongside your anti money laundering obligations.
We establish what your wallet activity triggers, then build only what applies.
We build compliance around what your product does, before volumes and questions arrive.
We register virtual currency dealers and build the reporting their activity demands.
We support financial institutions across registration, program build, and reporting duties.
Why Businesses Choose Our Reviews
Outside Eyes
We bring a fresh perspective to work you see every day, so the gaps familiarity hides become visible again.
Right Size
We scope each review to the question you have, so you get the depth you need without paying for more.
Clear Priorities
We tell you plainly what to fix first, so findings turn into action rather than a long unread report.
Serving Businesses Across Canada
We review businesses right across the whole of Canada, from Toronto and Montreal to Vancouver and Calgary, and foreign businesses checking their Canadian compliance wherever they happen to be based.
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Internal Review Questions
Clear answers to the questions businesses ask most about running internal reviews of their compliance right across the whole of Canada.
What is an internal compliance review?
It is a deliberate look at where your compliance actually stands, checking practices against obligations so gaps are found early.
How wide is the review?
As wide as you need. We scope it broadly across the program or narrowly onto one obligation that concerns you.
What do we receive afterwards?
Findings in plain language with clear priorities, telling you what to fix first, what can wait, and why it matters.
Is this the statutory effectiveness review?
No. Canada requires an independent effectiveness review every two years. That is a separate service with its own requirements.
Which specific review do we need?
It depends on your question. We also offer controls reviews, compliance audits, and ongoing monitoring, and can help you choose.