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FCA Authorisation & Regulatory Change
Build a coherent, submission-ready application or change programme around the way your business will actually operate.
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Regulatory clarity.
Operational grip.
Fintech Advisory Partners helps payments, FX and financial services firms navigate authorisation, strengthen controls and deliver complex change—without losing sight of the commercial model.
Working across
Payments & e-money
Foreign exchange
White-label models
Regulated fintech
Strategy · Compliance · Sustainable growth
Core advisory
Senior support where regulation meets execution.
Focused engagements for firms building, scaling or repairing regulated financial services operations.
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AML / Financial Crime Frameworks
Translate regulatory expectations into proportionate controls, useful management information and evidence that stands up to scrutiny.
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Safeguarding & Client Funds
Strengthen the policies, reconciliations, evidence and oversight around customer funds before scrutiny exposes avoidable gaps.
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Banking & Payment Partner Applications
Present the business model, transaction flows, customer risk and control environment in a form partners can assess efficiently.
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White-label FX & Payments
Help growing firms move from outsourced or manual arrangements towards mature, operationally independent models.
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Compliance Remediation / Assurance
Find the material control weaknesses, define a credible response and help teams produce the evidence that change has happened.
Explore serviceWhy FAP
Advice shaped by operating reality.
Work moves from senior judgement into the detail required to make change stick.
Senior oversight
Direct access to experienced leadership across fintech, payments, FX and regulated financial services.
Practical delivery
Policies, controls and plans translated into work that teams can actually operate.
Commercial awareness
Regulatory expectations considered alongside proposition, partners, cost and delivery capacity.
Flexible scope
Targeted projects, interim senior support, readiness reviews or end-to-end build-out.
Selected engagements
Complex situations. Clear next steps.
Examples of work delivered without naming clients or overstating outcomes.
White-label model to authorised payment institution
Senior advisory and implementation support across governance, financial crime controls, safeguarding, operational infrastructure and banking partner readiness.
Stabilising a payment institution under scrutiny
Banking partner engagement, remediation, governance enhancement and support on FCA-related matters during a period of heightened operational pressure.
Operational support for a white-label FX firm
Hands-on support with onboarding queries, payments held by banking partners and retrospective payment investigations to keep issues moving.
Founder & adviser
Rahad Khan
A senior compliance and financial crime professional with more than 15 years’ experience across banking, FX, payments and fintech.
“The role is to advise, write, build, challenge, remediate and deliver—not simply produce another report.”
Head of Compliance & MLRO experience
Earlier banking experience at Barclays
ICA Diploma in Anti-Money Laundering
FCA-regulated firm leadership
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