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We are an international leader, providing focused compliance consultancy business, regulatory and expert compliance resources to the financial services sector.

EXPERTISE

We have brought together compliance specialists including ex-regulators of the highest caliber with the technical knowledge, industry experience and international know-how to provide the incisive advice according to our client's demand.

APPROACH

We are looking forward and continuously strive to embrace change. We are committed to empower our staff to create innovative solutions that address the evolving challenges that our clients face. We also adapt different solutions to change, move speedily, develop continuously, and readily review our working practices

INTERNATIONAL REACH

We are an internationally focused business, headquartered in London with a global presence. Our services enable the clients to succeed across multiple jurisdictions and provide an international opportunity through consultation.

We assist a wide range of clients globally including in the UK, Europe, Africa and the UAE and focus our portfolio of services in different sectors, where we know we can make the greatest difference:

Capital Markets

Banking

Fintech

Crypto/Digital Assets

Mortgage

Asset Management

Consumer Credit

Payment Services

Insurance

About us

WHY CHOOSE US?

We are dedicated to working alongside clients to ensure that they achieve their business goals and overcome regulatory challenges anywhere in the world. From our international platform, our staff members enable the clients to succeed. Our staff comprise of ex-regulators and industry practitioners with in-depth industry knowledge from the frontline. We have the expertise, integrity and quality to enable the clients to achieve success and we take pride in staying up to date with the latest regulatory system and innovative solution.

We provide advice and assists the firms to become authorised and to comply with the rules and requirements of international regulators on a wide range of issues on an on-going basis. Our commitment to our clients is to be there in every step of the way, assisting in change, growth and excel through expertise, insight and innovation, and becoming our clients most valued provider.

Our clients span across all areas of the international financial service market. In the wholesale markets this includes: banking, securities brokerage, asset management, private equity, venture capital and corporate finance. In the retail markets, there are banking, wealth management, FX/CFD brokers, insurance, mortgage, consumer credit, payments services and e-money.

City Avenue International is a specialist financial service regulatory consultancy business with a modern and international reach operating across the United Kingdom, Europe Africa and UAE.

DIVERSITY & INCLUSION

Diversity and inclusion These are more than just words for us. They are the hard-and-fast principles guiding how we have created and established the company, cultivated leaders and created a company that is the right fit for every person. We have a global, multicultural following- that we continuously strive to reflect within our walls.

GET IT DONE

Our clients trust us as we provide first class regulatory compliance solutions that work and we take that seriously. Our team continuously overcome the existing obstacles, find solutions to deliver exceptional results.

MAKE SOMETHING BETTER TODAY

We are dedicated, we are passionate, and we love tough problems and new challenges. You do not hear a lot of "I do not know how" or "I cannot" at City Avenue International. When faced with a hurdle, we jump collaboratively to identify creative solutions.

DEVELOP OUR PEOPLE

By providing an environment that fosters personal development and professional growth as well as maintaining helath and safety, moneyary and non-monetary incentives, we try to create values for our people.

CULTIVATE RAVING FANS

We create raving fans of our customers and of each other. If our customers are not raving about our people and our services, then we have not achieved the level we strive for.

ACT WITH INTEGRITY

We are honest and forthright in our dealings. Building trust builds a better company.

Sectors

CAPITAL MARKETS

The sector has experienced unprecedented reforms over recent years, including the overhaul of regulations for the derivative markets, and significant increase in the depth and breadth of market conduct rules and global codes.

Our team combines with our extensive knowledge and experience to provide effective regulatory support to the firms operating in this sector. We provide individually tailored compliance support services to firms of all types and sizes.

BANKING

The sector has seen a noticeable increase in regulatory, stemming from the financial crisis and other highly publicised scandals, which has brought about a raft of new rules and regulations and a greater focus on governance.

Banks also remain under close scrutiny for financial crime. From advice to horizon scanning, we will assist with future regulations to ensure that the banks are never caught off guard.

FINTECH

The needs of fintech start-ups are to evolve change and differ as the business grows.

We pride ourselves on providing innovative regulatory solutions to new and exciting business models and are passionate about assisting the firms in achieving their goals.

CRYPTO/DIGITAL ASSETS

There are several questions about how regulation should be implemented for this sector. These tokens and their underlying technology namely DLT remain at the forefront of the regulators thoughts often operating in the unregulated or semi-regulated space.

Our team understands that this fast evolving sector needs continuous support as regulators continue to take a deeper interest.

MORTGAGE

The sector has faced major changes and scrutiny over recent years and regulatory invention in key areas have included fair treatment of existing customers, vulnerable consumers, responsible lending and appropriate use of panels.

We provide a variety of consultancy services to assist mortgage intermediaries and brokers to become authorised and thereafter manage their on-going compliance obligations.

ASSET MANAGEMENT

We work with firms in the sector to provide innovative governance, risk, and compliance advisory services and technology solutions that enhance their operational and business processes.

Our team will assist the firms with industry challenges unique to the sector and their everyday needs by providing advisory consulting, managed services, technology solutions, and education and training.

WEALTH

MANAGEMENT

Whether institutional or retail focussed our team assist firms in interpreting the applicable rules and regulations, utilising our in-depth knowledge to simplify complex regulations. Our efficient and effective advice assists firms in adopting the appropriate compliance regimes for their business model and supports their growth. We can advise on appropriateness, suitability, liquidity, capital and other prudential obligations, whilst keeping abreast of the ever changing regulatory landscape.

CONSUMER CREDIT

The sector comprises of a wide range of business models and is subject to wide-ranging regulations designed to protect the consumers. Navigating through the regulatory landscape is complex principally due to the multiple rules, regulations, exclusions and exemptions that affect the regulated firms and those that operate on the fringes of consumer credit regulation. Our team has experience across a wide range of consumer credit models to assist the firms in this area.

PAYMENT SERVICES

The payments and electronic money industry continues to face major digital disruption.

We assist a wide range of start-ups as well as established authorised payment and electronic money institutions with their compliance obligations and the ever changing landscape of regulation.

INSURANCE

Whether it is insurance broking, underwriting or reinsurance, our team has specialists, who are experienced and understand the sector and the continuing complex regulatory challenges it faces.

OUR SERVICES

We are specialists in compliance and financial regulation. Whether you need a partner to deliver regulatory change, support dealing with the regulator, help with day-to-day compliance, or simply peace of mind you are on the right track,

Services

Our experienced team provides practical assistance for a wide range of regulatory and business issues across multiple jurisdictions including:

UK

City Avenue International provides comprehensive regulatory compliance support on UK financial services regulations including across the banking, trading and brokerage, asset management, fintech, payment services, and crypto industries.

The UK regulatory landscape is constantly evolving, with new Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) initiatives introduced and working practices regularly updated.

As the market and regulatory demands continues to gather pace for firms, our team provides the bespoke advice and proactive services required to enable our clients to succeed.

WHAT WE DO

Our team provides consultative problem solving together with the core regulatory, governance, internal audit and risk management services to meet the demands of a wide range of businesses. We work in close collaboration with our clients, obtaining a deep understanding of their business and the specific environment in which they operate and provide clear advice which is both balanced and constructive

HOW WE DO IT

Given our broad experience of working with a wide range of firms across the UK financial services sector, our services include providing advice on regulatory change and implementation projects including the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MIFID), the Senior Managers & Certification Regime (SMCR), Payment Services Directive (PSD), Client Money (CASS), General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Anti Money Laundering (AML) and financial crime, transaction reporting (MIFIR/EMIR) and prudential regulatory requirements.

Our experience also ranges from providing outsourced services, assisting with section 166 skilled person reviews, providing applications and authorisation support, supporting the clients with our retained regulatory service.

UNITED KINGDOM

Available Services

Authorisation and Applications

Compliance Advisory

Ongoing Support / Retained Services

Financial Crime

Prudential Regulation

Governance

Skilled Person Reviews / Regulatory Investigations

Outsourcing (e.g. internal audit)

lient Money and Assets

Training

EUROPE

SERVICES

City Avenue International provides a range of services to a range of financial services firms across the Europe, providing our clients with the highest possible service.

Our team of regulatory and compliance specialists principally ex-regulators and industry practitioners from legal and accountancy backgrounds support the clients across Europe, utilising our European operations. We provide tailored services to the firms, based upon their specific business models and requirements, whether based in one European jurisdiction or across multiple European and/or global jurisdictions.

WHAT WE DO

We work with an array of firms including banks, asset managers, wealth management trading and brokerage, payment services and Fintech. Our team possesses strong knowledge and experience in supporting the businesses with setting up and licensing as well as providing specific project support and regular advisory support including as a retained advisor.

HOW WE DO IT

We advise the firms on multiple topics that may include distribution to internal audit programs and control frameworks. We are experienced in working with other firms to achieve their aims and objectives in a professional and pragmatic matter, bringing our deep specialist knowledge to assist in each engagement that we work on.

WHAT WE DO

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EUROPE

Available Services

Authorisation and Applications

Compliance Advisory

Ongoing Support / Retained Services

Financial Crime

Prudential Regulation

Governance

Regulatory Investigations

Outsourcing (e.g. internal audit)

Client Money and Assets

Training

We are aligned with the ever changing pace of the financial services sector and our team is comprised of the individuals with specialist knowledge within the industry, senior compliance and risk practitioners with significant experience both working in regulatory roles and with UAE regulator

WHAT WE DO

We assist and safeguard multiple firms by working in close partnership with them to provide objective, tailored and effective compliance solutions. By combining our international and regional experience, we provide a range of compliance, AML/financial crime and governance support and outsourcing services to the firms across the UAE. We provide bespoke modelling designed, specifically to guide firms in mitigating the risk of non-compliance.

HOW WE DO IT

Our clients vary and frequently operate on a global basis, in the capital and wholesale markets, in retail, private and commercial banking, in wealth and investment management and the insurance industry in addition to exchanges and clearing houses. In addition to providing our services directly to clients, our staff members are often used as subject matter experts in outsourced and co-sourced internal audit and in assisting large change management programmes and projects.

​There is no one size fits all, when it comes to compliance arrangements. Whatever the requirements of the firm, we are able to support it to get this right solution. Through our experienced professionals with strong experience with dealing with UAE regulators, we are able to provide the firms with expert advice

WHAT WE DO

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UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

Available Services

Authorisation and Applications

Compliance Advisory

Ongoing Support / Retained Services

Financial Crime

Prudential Regulation

Governance

Regulatory Investigations

Outsourcing (e.g. internal audit)

Client Money and Assets

Training

Privacy

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