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The Financial Crime Compliance Lab
The compliance community focused on training, talent and AI-powered tools for the people who fight financial crime.
- Banking
- Fintech
- Insurance
- Crypto
- Gaming
AML
KYC / CDD / EDD
TBML
Sanctions
Countering Terrorist Financing
Countering Proliferation Financing
Fraud
Transaction Monitoring
Digital Assets
FATCA / CRS
Risk Assessment
AI / RegTech
What we do
Four pillars. One mission: smarter compliance.
In development
Flagship · Innovation
ThinkLAB
Our applied-AI lab, in active development. We're building and stress-testing practical tools for financial crime compliance — sanctions screening logic, transaction-monitoring rules, typology mapping — and publishing what we learn.
- Sanctions screening logicFuzzy-matching thresholds & alias variants
- Transaction-monitoring rulesExplainable scenarios & tuning
- Typology mappingRed flags linked to controls
12Projects on the docket
5In development
2Live now
Training
GlobalED
Practitioner-led financial crime training: AML/CTF, sanctions, KYC/CDD/EDD, fraud and TBML — built for real casework, not just certificates.
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Talent
TalentBridge
Specialist compliance recruitment, launching soon. Built to connect institutions with vetted FCC professionals — from analysts to MLROs — who can perform from day one.
Find talent
Consulting
Advisory
Expertise where regulation meets execution — FCC framework design, enterprise-wide risk assessment, sanctions, TBML and independent review, grounded in real casework.
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Expertise
Deep in the domains that matter.
Focus areas
9- AML / CTF
- Sanctions screening
- KYC · CDD · EDD
- Transaction monitoring
- Fraud & FRAML
- Trade-based ML
- Crypto & VASPs
- RegTech & AI governance
- FCC regulation & international standards
Advisory services
7- FCC framework establishment & enhancement
- AML/CFT regulatory gap analysis
- Enterprise-wide risk assessment (EWRA)
- TM & sanctions screening optimisation
- CDD/EDD framework strengthening
- AML systems advisory (BRD design & execution)
- AI agents for compliance — advisory & design
Training & development
8- FCC (AML/CFT/CPF, TBML & sanctions)
- Customer due diligence / KYC
- FATCA & CRS
- Enterprise-wide risk assessment
- Fintech & digital transformation
- Leadership & soft skills
- Customised learning solutions
- Certification training (CAMS, CGSS)
How it works
From regulation to intelligence.
Effective financial crime compliance is a chain — from regulatory obligation through risk, data and analytics to a defensible decision. Select any stage to see how MAS LABS works across it.
Stage 01 of 09
Regulation
The laws and international standards that set the baseline for financial crime compliance.
Where we help
AdvisoryGlobalED
The compliance landscape
One discipline. Many connected domains.
Financial Crime ComplianceAML
Anti-money laundering programmes, controls and reporting.
KYC / CDD / EDD
Customer due diligence across the risk spectrum.
TBML
Trade-based money laundering typologies and red flags.
Sanctions
Screening, evasion typologies and list management.
Countering Terrorist Financing
Detection and disruption of financing flows to terrorism.
Countering Proliferation Financing
Controls aligned to evolving international standards on proliferation financing.
Fraud
Fraud and FRAML convergence with financial crime.
Transaction Monitoring
Rules, tuning and alert quality.
Digital Assets
Crypto and VASP risk and compliance.
FATCA / CRS
Tax transparency reporting obligations.
Risk Assessment
Enterprise-wide financial crime risk assessment.
AI / RegTech
Applied, governed and explainable technology.
Who's behind MAS LABS
Compliance shouldn't be a box-ticking exercise. It should be a craft — taught properly, staffed properly, and armed with the best tools we can build.
MAS LABS is built by professionals, practitioners and subject-matter experts with deep experience across financial crime compliance, regulatory technology, professional training and digital transformation. Rather than being centred on a single individual, MAS LABS operates as a collective of expertise.
Learn more about MAS LABS15+Years in FCC
500+Training hours delivered
4Sectors served — banks, fintechs, VASPs, DNFBPs
A+Results-oriented
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Insights & analysis
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Stress-testing sanctions screening logic with AI
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