Built by practitioners. Enhanced by technology.

Financial crime intelligence, investigated end to end.

Built by financial crime practitioners from Big Four firms and banks. LÆdar, our intelligence platform, turns company data into ownership maps, risk signals and audit-ready cases, so your team investigates in minutes, not weeks.

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Built by financial crime professionals from

KPMGDeloitteBank of New York Mellon

laedar / case-2026-0613 Live analysis

EntityMeridian Holdings Ltd

JurisdictionUnited Kingdom

Companies House14820391

Identifying company…

Sanctions & PEPQueued

Adverse mediaQueued

· / 100 risk

Assessing

Output

Audit-ready PDF

Trusted intelligence for Law firms Banks Fintechs & EMIs VASPs Wealth managers

Specialist expertise

A specialist financial crime consultancy.

KYCifi is, first, a specialist AML and KYC practice. Our team has spent careers inside Big Four firms and banks running the reviews, investigations and remediation regulators expect, across every core financial crime discipline.

AML Compliance

Programmes, controls and advisory designed for regulated firms.

AML FrameworksRisk AssessmentsPolicy Reviews

KYC & Due Diligence

From onboarding to periodic review, delivering CDD and EDD to regulatory standard.

KYC OnboardingCustomer Due DiligenceEnhanced Due Diligence

Screening Intelligence

Sanctions, PEP and adverse media screening with analyst-ready outputs.

Sanctions ScreeningPEP IdentificationAdverse Media

Ownership Intelligence

UBO tracing and corporate structure analysis.

Ownership MappingUBO DiscoveryCorporate Structures

Regulatory Compliance

Frameworks, policies, governance and remediation.

Compliance FrameworksPolicies & ProceduresRemediation

Regulatory Readiness

Audit-ready documentation and supervisor-grade evidence.

Audit Ready FilesEvidence PacksRegulatory Support

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The investigation, unfolded

From a single name to a defensible case.

Our specialists run every investigation the same disciplined way. They bring the judgement; the platform does the legwork and produces a documented, defensible decision.

Company data

Pull live Companies House records, filings and corporate structure for any entity in seconds.

Registry · Filings

Ownership mapping

Beneficial ownership traced recursively through every layer, with PSC discrepancies surfaced for review.

UBO · PSC

Risk detection

Screen against 40+ sanctions, PEP and adverse media sources, scored and explained, not just flagged.

Sanctions · Media

Case preparation

Receive a structured rationale, risk rating and downloadable report, defensible and audit-ready.

Rationale · PDF

The platform

The platform behind our specialists.

LÆdar is the technology our practitioners built to do the analytical heavy lifting, ownership tracing, screening and risk scoring, so specialists spend their time on judgement, not legwork. Every module, including PVARA workflows, runs on it.

LÆdar · Intelligence Platform

LÆdar

Recursive ownership tracing, sanctions and PEP screening, adverse media and AI-assisted adjudication. Every finding is documented and handed to an analyst to decide.

UBO tracing
Sanctions & PEP
Adverse media
Analyst rationale

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Modules within LÆdar

Company Intelligence

Live registry data, directors and recursive UBO mapping for any entity.

Screening Intelligence

Sanctions, PEP and adverse media across 40+ global lists, explainably scored.

Ownership Mapping

Control structures and beneficial owners traced through every corporate layer.

Risk Intelligence

Red flags, discrepancies and risk indicators, scored and explained for review.

PVARA Workflows

NOC readiness, VASP CDD, Travel Rule and goAML, as modules within LÆdar.

Regulatory Workflows

Audit-ready records and reporting, documented to the standard supervisors expect.

Institutional expertise

The intelligence of a Big Four team, in a platform you can deploy today.

Built by professionals who have worked at the highest levels of financial crime compliance, at KPMG, Deloitte and Bank of New York Mellon. That experience is encoded into every workflow.

Years financial crime experience

Global sanctions & PEP lists

Regulated markets served

Compliance tools built

Built by practitioners

People who have sat on the other side of the review.

KYCifi is built by professionals from KPMG, Deloitte and Bank of New York Mellon, working from No.1 Spinningfields in the heart of Manchester's financial district. The judgement that comes from real casework is built into every decision the platform makes.

"We built KYCifi so a single analyst can run an investigation to the standard a regulator expects, with the speed a modern business demands."

Bilal Akhtar · Founder & Lead Compliance Consultant

KYCifi office lounge and staircase at No.1 Spinningfields — The studio

KYCifi lounge overlooking the Spinningfields courtyard

Reception

See the platform run a live investigation.

Book a 15-minute walkthrough and watch KYCifi take a single company name to a fully documented, audit-ready case.

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