FinTech Ventures

FinTech Ventures

You have spent countless hours creating your vision, strategy, and roadmap—and securing the funding you need to take your venture to the next level. Your business strategy impacts risk exposure and the ensuing complexity of compliance frameworks that must be developed, implemented, and managed in order to meet relevant banking and regulatory requirements.

Headquartered in Silicon Valley, with a global portfolio of clients that have graduated from premier accelerators, raised funding from leading investors, and achieved successful exits, Stratis Advisory provides the market insight, risk strategy, governance, and operational compliance expertise you need to reduce risks and compliance costs. We provide support for founders, management teams, and their boards, from initial idea through to funding, go-to-market, rapid scaling, and exit. Our on-demand TempCCO® services and support are tailored to your company’s unique strategic, risk, and operational requirements.

How will you stand up your risk management infrastructure without inviting undue risk?

Whether your startup makes it will depend in large part on your ability to master regulatory risk management and compliance operations from the get-go. Stratis Advisory can help you develop, implement, and manage risk by establishing the necessary operational compliance infrastructure to fulfill your strategic vision while cost-effectively meeting all relevant regulatory requirements.

Optimize your go-to-market strategy, timeline, and budget with advisory services that are tailored to your business model.

Whether your startup is at seed stage or readying for exit, we can help you achieve the right-sized risk management and compliance you need. Stratis Advisory can provide the strategic guidance and risk infrastructure needed to achieve and maintain licensing and banking relationships. Stratis Advisory’s on-demand services deliver expert risk, strategy, and compliance support to startups, their boards of directors, investors, and banking partners.

Stratis Advisory Services for FinTech Ventures

On-Demand Compliance

Our flexible On-Demand Compliance and TempCCO®  services provide the risk and compliance expertise you’ll need when developing and building your risk management infrastructure.

Licensing-as-a-Service

A comprehensive managed service to cost-effectively execute your global licensing roadmap for all FinTechs, including MSBs, Payment and E-Money institutions or consumer lenders, based on your go-to-market priority.

AI Programs

Deploying AI agents requires the development of an AI Program to manage single or multi-agent systems, intelligence agents, deployment strategy, behavior dynamics, governance, assurance, and testing. AI Programs ensure you have the appropriate insight and oversight.

Product Launch

Whether it’s a new idea, a pivot, or an expansion, your new product takes on a host of risk challenges that drive customer and transaction activity. Determine the readiness of your risk infrastructure before, during, and after launch.

Bank Partnership Programs

We’ll help you build the required risk management infrastructure to establish banking relationships and to ensure proper use, maintenance, and retention of your account to conduct user transactions.

Systems Implementation

Determine the appropriate risk, fraud, and compliance systems for your business and risk profile. Establish scorecards, rules, and settings throughout the customer journey to align with back-end monitoring, processes, workflows, and reporting.

Model Validation

Utilizing internal and external systems to perform IDV, KYC, KYB, CDD, OFAC, fraud, transaction monitoring and screening may require model validation from regulators or strategic partners. For NY licensees, NYS DFS Part 504 requires model validation to annually certify compliance.

Independent Audits

Dive into scale-appropriate regulatory audits on your risk management infrastructure, including ABC, AML/CFT, business continuity/disaster recovery, cybersecurity, Nacha Operating Rules, OFAC sanctions, data privacy, vendor management, and NYS DFS Part 500 and 504.

Enterprise Risk

After years of building, identify where risk lurks across your firm from product to compliance to technology, roll it up for transparency and strong governance, and tighten up those initial building blocks and blind spots to keep your rocket ship on course.

Geographic Expansion

Going global? Opening new geographic markets comes with plenty of nuances, we have you covered as a single provider across six continents, whether going from the US to SG, UK/EU to US, AU to UK, etc.

Portfolio Expansion

Double down on customer acquisition strategy by unlocking new opportunities to keep up with digital-savvy customers. Understand the nuances of the market, regulatory approach, and operational and risk management maturity.

Training

Live regulatory and operationally focused training that integrate technology, engineering, business, and compliance teams on local and global AML/CFT, ABC requirements and best practices to increase the knowledge base company-wide.

Valkyrie - Stratis Sanctions Screening Service

Sanctions screening is a critical process for organizations to ensure compliance with global regulations. Stratis has developed Valkyrie, a streamlined sanctions screening service designed to help organizations meet sanctions compliance standards with ease.

Board Training

Elevate from the basics to enhanced insight for directors, executives, and investors on your firm’s risk profile and culture, what it means, how to mitigate it, and where the costs are in this regulatory market.

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