Empowering Change.
Delivering Results

At BSS, we offer co-sourced and full delivery financial crime project and consultancy services, allowing our clients to deliver their financial crime obligations on time, on budget and to a high standard.

BSS FinCrime is the specialist financial crime consulting partner of Barclay Simpson, leveraging our 30-plus years of experience in delivering people and talent solutions in financial crime, compliance and wider risk and governance disciplines. Our model delivers agile, expert-led solutions with precision, speed, and cost efficiency — ideal for financial institutions facing increased regulatory scrutiny and project complexity. 

At BSS, we deliver results tailored to your financial crime needs

BSS can support your organisation with financial crime services across the following areas:

Advisory 

We help you understand your financial crime risk exposure and design frameworks, policies, and controls that are practical, scalable, and aligned to UK regulatory expectations.

Transformation 

We work with you to build and embed sustainable financial crime operating models, technology enablement, and strong risk ownership across the first and second lines.

Remediation 

When gaps are identified, we deliver structured and well-governed remediation programmes that address root causes, reduce regulatory and commercial risk, and restore confidence with stakeholders and regulators.

Our approach

We deliver the right solutions for your financial crime needs using industry leading SMEs.

We provide the right subject matter experts and industry specialists for every project, delivering tailored solutions rather than off-the-shelf approaches.

A snapshot of our services

Scalable Client and File remediation

Review, update, and remediate large volumes of client and KYC files — combining expert oversight, technology-enabled workflows, and flexible delivery models to ensure regulatory compliance at speed and scale.

System Review & Calibration

Transaction Screening and CRA calibration reviews, including performance testing and threshold alignment.

Business-Wide Risk Assessments (BWRA)

Delivery and enhancement of financial crime BWRAs, tailored to your product, customer and jurisdictional risk.

FCA Visit Preparation

Hands-on support drafting responses, QA-ing files, creating regulatory packs and conducting internal readiness reviews.

Sanctions, PEPs, TM & CRA

Targeted support across all risk typologies, controls, and system architecture.

Machine Learning & AI Solution Review

“Aid Memoir” consultancy for firms unsure about how vendor AI models operate, how to evidence understanding, or how to prepare for FCA scrutiny.

Financial Crime Remediation Governance Handbook

Obtain your free guide to financial crime remediation governance here:

    Why BSS

    Cost Efficiency

    We provide Outcome-based services designed to optimise value and reduce costs, ensuring high-quality outcomes while keeping overheads low and charging only for measurable deliverables.

    Domain Specificity

    We deliver Financial Crime projects with direct, relevant expertise by industry SME’s — from transaction monitoring and sanctions to fraud frameworks and FCA visit preparation.

    Speed and Scalability

    We have a bench of pre-vetted experts and can scale resources to your needs within days, not weeks.

    Our people

    Michael Cunningham

    Head of Client Services

    Steve Lockwood

    Senior Advisor – Financial Crime

    Mark Ampleford

    BSS CEO

    Liam Collins

    Head of Operations

    Charlotte Salmon

    Service Delivery Consultant

    Contact us

    Feel free to reach out to us for more information on how we can assist you with your financial crime needs!