Compliance that lets you
grow with confidence.
AdherePro is a boutique advisory practice for UK-regulated and high-growth firms — and for international businesses entering the UK market. We turn FCA expectations, financial-crime risk and governance obligations into clear, defensible systems — built by former regulators and senior compliance officers.
Frameworks & regimes we work across
Regulation moved. Most compliance functions haven't.
Consumer Duty, operational resilience and an assertive financial-crime agenda have raised the bar — while supervisors expect evidence, not intentions.
AdherePro closes the gap between what the rules require and what your business actually does. We design proportionate frameworks, produce the artefacts regulators ask to see, and stay alongside you as obligations change — so compliance becomes an enabler of growth rather than a brake on it.
Advisory built around your obligations
FCA Authorisation & Applications
End-to-end support for direct authorisation, variations of permission and appointed-representative arrangements — including regulatory business plans and threshold-conditions evidence.
Financial Crime, AML & KYC
Risk assessments, policies and controls aligned to MLR 2017 and JMLSG guidance, plus transaction-monitoring tuning, sanctions screening and MLRO support.
Governance, SM&CR & Consumer Duty
Senior-manager regimes, responsibilities maps and fair-value assessments — operationalised with the management information your board needs to attest with confidence.
Outsourced Compliance (Compliance-as-a-Service)
A retained senior compliance partner for firms not yet ready for a full in-house function — monitoring plans, horizon scanning, regulatory correspondence and ongoing assurance.
Specialists in regulated & high-growth sectors
Financial services is our core — from UK firms to international businesses entering the UK market. We tailor every engagement to your regime.
Payments & E-money
Safeguarding, PSD2, wind-down planning and authorisation for PIs, EMIs, PSPs and remittance firms.
Wealth & Investment
MiFID conduct, CASS, suitability and Consumer Duty for advisers and managers.
Lending & Credit
Consumer-credit permissions, affordability, vulnerability and collections conduct.
Fintech & Crypto
Cryptoasset registration, crypto payments & trading, financial-promotions compliance and scaling controls.
Data & Technology
UK GDPR programmes, DPO-as-a-service and ISO 27001 readiness.
Professional Services
AML supervision, governance reviews and risk frameworks for regulated practices.
Confidence, by design.
Regulation handled with the rigour of former supervisors and senior compliance officers — so you can move faster, with less risk.
Book a scoping call“AdherePro took us through FCA authorisation first time and built a compliance framework our board actually understands. They speak the regulator's language — and ours.”
“Pragmatic, senior and genuinely commercial. Our monitoring programme finally fits how we operate.”
— James Patel, CEO, Lumen Wealth
“They turned Consumer Duty from a panic into a plan we could evidence to the board.”
— Sofia Okafor, Head of Risk, Halden Credit
“The outsourced compliance model gave us a Big-Four standard without the headcount.”
— Daniel Cho, Founder, Arc Fintech
Regulatory thinking, plainly written
Board reports that withstand scrutiny
What the FCA actually expects in your annual Consumer Duty attestation — and the evidence to back it.
Read article Financial crimeAPP fraud reimbursement, in practice
Operationalising the mandatory reimbursement rules without drowning your operations team.
Read article AuthorisationA first-time-approval FCA pack
The five things that most often send an application back — and how to pre-empt them.
Read articleWe now accept crypto & card payments
Settle invoices in Bitcoin, Ethereum or USD-pegged stablecoins — or simply pay by card. Choose what suits you; our fees and engagement terms remain exactly the same.
Crypto accepted for invoice settlement only. Payments are converted and reconciled in line with our financial-crime and AML procedures; sanctioned or high-risk wallets are screened and may be declined.