Infrastructure & Compliance
We support organizations in navigating systemic, networking, and financial crime regulatory compliance risks. We clarify the decisions that improve efficiency and resilience, so operations run more predictably.
Our clients generally realize something is off:
- Vendors fail to produce results yet keep adding more fees.
- BSA/AML/OFAC risk is growing or recent audits have surfaced findings.
- Decision-making slows when urgency increases, even for experienced teams.
- You've inherited complexity that "can't be unraveled".
Services
We uncover break down technically and operationally. If you’ve had systems and network outages, audit scrambles, or vendor cost surprises, we find the root cause and fix it without blowing up your budget.
We don't sell service platforms, or a binder saying "reduce headcount". We help you see what’s actually bleeding time, money, and trust. We’ve replaced legacy responsibilities with a few lines of code. We’ve cut year-long onboarding delays to a week with two pages of documentation. We make things easier.
Compliance & Regulatory Audits
Insight into where controls and accountability have drifted apart and how to realign them without friction.
Gap analysis and rewritten governance documentation focused on clarity.
Regulator-facing narratives and remediation strategies that build confidence.
Our compliance work focuses on BSA/AML/OFAC and broader financial crimes frameworks. If you're preparing for an audit, untangling legacy policies, or trying to understand what "good" looks like, we can help. We've led strategic remediation, regulatory response, and exam prep across both FinTechs and traditional banks.
Many organizations don’t realize they’re exposed or even complicit until someone with regulatory experience identifies the gaps. We help you repair and build for the long haul.
Case Study: Signal, not Noise - Assessing and Rebuilding Case Management Systems
Many institutions treat their transaction monitoring or case management platform as the centerpiece of their financial crime compliance program without realizing how quickly these tools can become liabilities. In this composited case study, Anchor Accord examines a pattern observed across multiple institutions: unclear system ownership, broken triage workflows, and misaligned alert logic that overwhelms staff while underperforming on actual risk.
Systems and Infrastructure Health Assessments
Plain-language findings you can act on or use to advocate for change.
Clear documentation of where risk lives and what to do next.
Direction without drama. Strategy grounded in real operational context.
We specialize in stabilizing high-consequence, complex operations. We don't chase the latest cloud tool. We work with you to understand how your business actually runs, and deliver cost effective strategies for improvement.
Reactivity often creeps in slowly, in the form of late nights or heroic catches. We’ll help you reclaim control without disrupting the business to do it.
Case Study: Scaling, Stalled - How Invisible Infrastructure Debt Drains Product Momentum
As a firm scaled, repeated technical breakdowns quietly began eating into its core mission: teams found themselves mired in troubleshooting, and product development suffered. This case explores transforming technical resources from a cost center into a force multiplier.
Cross-Cut Reviews
Joint reviews of workflows that span infrastructure and regulatory exposure.
Technical verification of vendor claims, system capabilities, or undocumented risk.
Observability and telemetry design that supports both ops and audit.
Some of the riskiest failures happen in the space between systems and policy - where vendors and compliance drift apart in expensive and risky ways.
We can evaluate your vendors and provide solutions to integration, operations, and compliance systems that typically gets quietly absorbed by OpEx and turnover. We can help bring that under control without snake oil pitches.
Our Founders
Anchor Accord was founded by two senior leaders that have seen what happens when ownership diffuses, frameworks get forced, or vendors underdeliver.
Nicole J. Gray, CAMS
Principal, Compliance & Regulatory Strategy
AML/BSA/OFAC, governance strategy, executive guidance
Nicole Gray is a CAMS-certified compliance executive with over 20 years of experience in financial crime compliance oversight, including BSA/AML, OFAC, and broader regulatory frameworks. She has led enterprise remediation, rewritten governance under regulatory pressure, and supported exam prep for both FinTechs and traditional banks.
She has navigated complex regulatory environments where organizations' reputations are at stake by identifying hidden risk factors and delivering narratives that hold up under scrutiny.
Nicole specializes in bringing structure to compliance environments and helping organizations become resilient.
Gregory C. Ross, CISSP
Technical & Governance Advisor
Systems, network, security and automation
Gregory Ross is an infrastructure and systems strategist with over 20 years of experience in large scale, technically complex network operations environments.
He has led the design, deployment, and stabilization of real-time systems supporting millions of users, and created incident response governance across security, networking, and systems domains.
Gregory specializes in reducing operational risk, and designing resilient, maintainable systems.
Contact
Anchor Accord works with a limited number of organizations at a time. If you're navigating a moment of regulatory, technical, or operational complexity, request a briefing below.
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