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Governance, Compliance, Financial Crime Compliance and Client Lifecycle Management expertise at your fingertips

Lysis Group is an international governance and compliance advisory and business services group focused on the financial markets and other regulated sectors such as digital assets, gaming and real estate. We service a global client list from offices around the world since 2001. Our client list includes global players in capital markets, corporate and investment banking, wealth management, retail banking, fund management, payment services, gaming, digital assets and real estate.

"Lysis Group brought a depth of knowledge and professionalism that helped us navigate complex financial crime compliance requirements with confidence. Their consultants integrated seamlessly with our team and delivered real value from day one."

Head of Financial Crime Compliance, Global Investment Bank

"As a fast-growing fintech, we needed a partner who understood both regulation and innovation. Lysis Group delivered tailored advice and hands-on support that helped us scale responsibly and stay ahead of compliance expectations."

Chief Operating Officer, UK Fintech

"The Lysis Group team quickly understood the challenges we face as a regulated payments firm. Their strategic input and operational support were instrumental in enhancing our financial crime framework and strengthening our risk management practices."

Chief Compliance Officer, Leading Payments Provider

“Navigating the evolving crypto regulatory landscape is no easy task, but Lysis Group brought clarity, structure, and deep expertise. They helped us implement a compliance strategy that balances innovation with robust controls.”

Head of Compliance, Global Digital Asset Exchange

“Lysis Group’s deep sector knowledge and practical approach helped us strengthen our anti-money laundering controls and meet regulatory expectations without disrupting our operations.”

Compliance Director, Asset Management Firm

"We partnered with Lysis Group during a period of regulatory pressure and transformation. Their proactive approach, regulatory insight and ability to mobilise expert teams made a significant impact across our retail operations.”

Director of Financial Crime Operations, Major Retail Bank

500+ governance, compliance and financial crime projects completed across 75 customers
OPERATING SINCE 2001

Compliance Leading Experts

Our teams have extensive experience in Governance, Compliance, Licensing & Permissions, Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Client Lifecycle Management (CLM), Know Your Customer (KYC) and other financial crime requirements.

Consulting & Advisory
Helping firms to work successfully with regulators and to achieve/ maintain efficient and effective Regulatory and anti-Financial Crime Compliance
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Operations & Resourcing
Delivering a cost-effective combination of operations services across the full spectrum of CLM and Financial Crime Compliance
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Training & Development
A bespoke suite of training, capability development and quality standardisation services to support firms in maximising the capability and thus output of their teams
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Gaming & Gambling
Lysis Gaming Compliance is our specialist division which provides  our Advisory, Operations and Training  services to the gaming market
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Innovation, Authorisations & Banking Solutions
Whether you’re launching a new venture or expanding into new jurisdictions, we provide expert guidance and end-to-end support to ensure full compliance while driving innovation.
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Consulting & Advisory
Helping firms to work successfully with regulators and to achieve/ maintain efficient and effective Regulatory and anti-Financial Crime Compliance

As global governance & compliance experts, Lysis Advisory has an extensive track record of helping firms to gain and retain their regulatory permissions and achieve and maintain compliance with financial crime and other regulations.

Governance and Compliance

Lysis has assisted clients with a range of governance and compliance programmes such as S166 remediations, SMCR and governance framework implementation.

Regulatory Permissions Support

We assist firms to obtain the required regulatory permissions to conduct regulated activities. This includes permission to register and trade as a crypto asset firm, payment services permissions and electronic money institution licenses.

Financial Crime (FC) Compliance

With ever changing legislation, all firms should be vigilant in identifying and protecting themselves against potential money laundering activities.  Lysis has extensive compliance officer experience having conducted multiple financial crime framework programmes and provided interim resources to many clients across all market sectors.  We also have the necessary skills and experience to assist your firm to compile, review and optimise FC controls across the entire client lifecycle management (CLM) process.

Client Lifecycle Management

We have extensive experience of the design and implementation of target operating models for CLM, CLM process improvement projects to drive significant efficiency gains, selection and implementation of systems and data sources and client data integration and management projects.

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Operations & Resourcing
Cost-effective & Award-winning Managed Services

Since 2005 we have been delivering a cost-effective combination of operations services across the full spectrum of CLM and financial crime compliance including client on-boarding, ongoing monitoring screening, Know Your Customer (KYC) remediation & refresh, transaction monitoring remediation & real-time alerts review and our award-winning managed services.  We have helped multiple firms across all sectors with major remediations and backlogs as well as providing BAU surge resourcing and managed services and our fully managed service for smaller firms covering the people, process and technology for client on-boarding, monitoring and review.

KYC Operations

From KYC Remediations to Screening to Transaction Monitoring, we offer coverage across the entire CLM spectrum.

Operational Risk Management & Management Information

Our Managed Service Operational Risk Management Framework (ORMF) and Management Information (MI) blueprint have been designed to provide a clear view of status and risks and to integrate with your in-house reporting at all levels.

On-shore / Near Shore

Our well-established on-shore capability in the U.K., Ireland and the US and our efficient near-shore capability in Cape Town, South Africa are both professionally equipped to provide bespoke CLM and AML services and support to all our global clients in a very cost-effective manner.

Expert Resources

All our staff are typically highly experienced (analysts 3-10 years’ experience, SMEs over that) and cross-trained in AML, KYC, and other financial crime requirements …  see Lysis Academy

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Training & Capability Development and Quality Standardisation
Optimising the People factor

While firms continue to standardise processes and controls to increase effectiveness and efficiency and invest heavily in automation, the “people” factor is not always taken into consideration for optimisation. As a result, the work output across teams and between teams in different locations is often inconsistent and of variable quality. In addition, firms, small and large, run significant inefficiencies across FC operations which could lead to a substantial increase in the cost of compliance. Lysis has a bespoke suite of training, capability development and quality standardisation services to support firms in maximising the capability and thus output of their teams.

Exploring Aptitude

Our bespoke tooling allows us to identify the profiles of high-performing AML analysts.

Capability Development

Lysis has supported the set-up of near/off-shore teams totalling in excess of 2,500 analysts for several of our large global customers.  We can train teams from scratch or enhance the knowledge of teams via tailored training following our Training Needs Assessment.  We can then support the early months of operations via expert QA/QC, coaching, etc

Operational Effectiveness

We can assess the effectiveness of teams from a knowledge and process perspective and work with management to improve both quality and throughput.  We have found that fine-tuning the skills of a team can reduce processing times for AML work by 20-25%.

Training

Our intensive training programmes for AML professionals ensure a solid knowledge base across FATF, best practice and local regulatory requirements as well as a thorough grounding in disciplines such as risk assessment, enhanced due diligence, identification of red flags and risk mitigation. We focus on the Why as well as the What and the How.

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Gaming Compliance
Governance & Compliance Advisory, Operations and Academy for Gaming & Payments

Lysis Gaming Compliance is our specialist division which provides our advisory, operations and training  services to the gaming market. Customers include regulatory and licensing authorities, major global on-line gaming and gambling firms and smaller players.  We also have extensive experience of working with banks and Payment Service Providers (PSPs) and often interface between the gaming sector and banks and PSPs and the gaming sector for account opening, compliance support and related activities.

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INDUSTRIES SUPPORTED

Supporting your firm, globally

We are perfectly positioned to support a number of different industries on a global scale. This is due to our unique, interconnected combination of services which have been developed deliberately to compliment and strengthen each other as well as to create a significant differentiation from other providers in the market.

Case studies

We have worked with firms like yours

As financial crime compliance experts, we can support financial service institutions including wholesale and investment banks, payment services and cards, wealth managers, challenger banks and firms from a range of other regulated industries, including crypto asset firms.

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Consulting & Advisory
Location Strategy for Level 2 Teams for a Global Gaming Operator
Gaming & Gambling

Our client was looking at options for the location of new Level 2 teams to support retail customers with affordability and suitability issues.

Operations & Resourcing
Corporate and Counterparty KYC Remediation and Golden Data Source Creation for a Global Inter-dealer Broker
Corporate, Wholesale and Investment Bank

A major bank with two major trading entities wished to decrease time-to-trade processing overheads for new customers and for new products for existing customers.

Training & Certification
AML Training for a National Gaming Licensing and Taxation Agent
Gaming & Gambling

Our client had a requirement to train some experienced operational staff in AML

Lysis Group Team

Managed by Industry Leaders

We are all kinds of experts

Meet our global leadership team who drives the firm’s strategic financial crime compliance goals and tactical objectives in a collaborative manner.

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Latest INSIGHTS, NEWS, UPDATES & MORE

In the loop with Lysis

Let us update you on all the latest news and trends that take place in the financial crime environment across the globe. You can look forward to industry news, statistical insights as well as us sharing our views on key aspects.

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Insights
Mar 2025
The Compliance Trap: Why Rapid Growth Can Lead to Regulatory Failures

Growth at speed brings risks. When compliance fails to keep pace, companies become vulnerable to financial crime, regulatory penalties and reputational damage.

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Feb 2025
The Future of Financial Crime Compliance: How Institutions Can Stay Ahead

Financial crime compliance is undergoing a major transformation as regulatory demands, emerging technologies and evolving criminal tactics reshape the landscape.

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Jan 2025
The FCA’s Response to the Government’s Growth Letter: What It Means for Regulated Firms

The FCA published its formal response to the UK Government’s letter, which outlined expectations for fostering growth and innovation in the financial services sector.