Are you ready for AMLA?

EU AML Regulation applies on 10 July 2027

Financial crime controls that stand up to any EU regulator.

The EU's single AML rulebook applies from 10 July 2027, with AMLA supervision from 2028. We get banks, payment institutions, EMIs and fintechs ready before it does, with independent, senior-led audits across financial crime and the non-financial risks around it.

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CIA · CAMS · CISA · CFE · CRMA · CCE · ICA·10+ years in financial crime

EU AML & sanctions specialist

Senior-led, end to end

10+ Years in financial crime

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The EU AML Reform Readiness Toolkit

A structured maturity self-assessment that scores your financial crime framework across eight control domains, before AMLA and your national regulator do. Drawn from real audit and examination work, with the 2026 to 2028 reform timeline and a gap-prioritisation model built in.

A scored maturity model across the eight domains EU regulators examine, from governance to assurance
The AMLR, AMLD6 and AMLA reform timeline to 2027 and 2028, with the dates that matter
Scoring bands and a gap-prioritisation prompt, so you know what to fix first
The evidence to have ready, plus a business-wide risk assessment reference

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What we audit

Specialist financial crime and non-financial risk assurance for regulated institutions across the EU.

AML / CFT Framework Audits

An independent audit of your end-to-end AML/CFT framework against AMLD6, the incoming AML Regulation (AMLR), the EBA Guidelines and FATF standards. It gives your board and regulator the assurance they expect.

Transaction Monitoring Effectiveness

We review your monitoring coverage, scenario tuning, alert handling, and suspicious-transaction reporting to your national FIU, so you know your detection actually works.

Training & QA Reviews

An independent review of whether your AML training is adequate, current and reaching the right people, with IIA-aligned quality assurance over your internal audit and compliance functions.

Sanctions Screening Reviews

Assessment of sanctions screening, PEP identification, and adverse-media controls against EU sanctions regulations and the national requirements that apply to you.

KYC / CDD File Reviews

File-level testing of onboarding, customer due diligence, and ongoing monitoring. We sample real cases to evidence remediation and prove your AML compliance.

Enterprise-Wide Risk Assessment Reviews

An independent challenge of your business-wide AML risk assessment (the SIRA in the Netherlands). It's the cornerstone regulators expect, and we assess it for completeness, methodology, and control linkage.

Operational & Non-Financial Risk Reviews

Independent assurance over the non-financial risks beyond financial crime: operational and process controls, third-party and outsourcing arrangements, payments operations, and operational resilience under DORA. We test whether your day-to-day operations hold up the way regulators now examine them.

Conduct, Culture & Governance Reviews

An independent review of conduct, culture and governance: how your three lines of defence work together, the quality of board and committee oversight, and whether your risk culture genuinely supports the controls you have on paper.

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Personalised AML training

Beyond independent audit, we also deliver tailored AML and financial crime training for your first, second and third line teams, built around your products, your risks and your regulatory environment.

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Why work with Alsina Advisory

At Alsina Advisory, every engagement is led by a senior specialist, from the first scoping call to the final report. No generic templates and no junior teams learning on your file, just senior people who understand how EU regulators examine and how your controls are really tested.

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Kas Alsina

Founder & Lead Financial Crime Auditor

CIA · CAMS · CISA · CFE · CRMA · CCE · ICA

I'm Kas Alsina, founder of Alsina Advisory. I've spent over a decade in financial crime and internal audit, working in the third line of defence at Tier-1 banks, global payments businesses, and fintechs, with audit coverage spanning Europe, the UK, and Asia-Pacific.

My specialism is financial crime audit: AML/CFT, KYC, sanctions, and transaction monitoring, and the fast-moving Wwft and EU AMLA landscape. What interests me most is the gap between compliance on paper and how controls really work in practice, and my job is to close it with honest, risk-based audit. My regulatory coverage spans DNB, BaFin, FATF, and the ECB.

When you engage Alsina Advisory, you work directly with senior specialists, never juniors and never a handover to someone you have not met. As founder, I stay close to every engagement, so the team that scopes your work is the team that delivers it and stands behind the report.

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Accreditations

CIACertified Internal Auditor
CAMSCertified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist
CISACertified Information Systems Auditor
CFECertified Fraud Examiner
CRMACertification in Risk Management Assurance
CCECertified Compliance & Ethics Professional
ICACertificate in Anti-Money Laundering (Distinction)

Professional Designations

100%

Senior-Led Engagements

10+

Years in Financial Crime

What colleagues say

A selection of LinkedIn recommendations from the audit, risk and financial crime professionals we've worked with.

"What I appreciated most was his practical approach: he focuses on understanding how controls actually work in day-to-day operations. He is a collaborative professional who communicates clearly with stakeholders, making complex audit findings accessible and actionable. I'd recommend Kasim to any team looking for a knowledgeable and pragmatic audit professional."

Dr. Laurin Lilly-Laona Friedrich

Governance, Risk & Compliance

"Kas has extensive expertise in many facets of banking, particularly risk management. Always a delight to work with, and a 'go-to' person that stakeholders can rely on to accomplish the most critical elements in every risk management situation."

Jerome Burke

Financial Crime Compliance

"Kas is an enthusiastic and thorough auditor, and such a delight to work with. He's a team player who takes on challenges and delivers high-quality, impactful reports."

Chandrra Sekhaar

Chief Audit Executive

"I had the privilege to work with Kasim on high-profile, complex audits. He is a great senior internal auditor: sharp, a quick learner, an excellent communicator, reliable and hands-on, with outstanding people skills."

Jesmy Chavez, CPA

Director, Risk Management

"Kasim is a valuable asset to any team: dependable, hard-working, and quick to understand new processes. He is a problem solver who addresses complex issues with confidence, and always delivers on time."

Özen İlhan

VP, Audit Supervisor, Financial Markets

"Kas is thorough in his internal audit approach, a great team player, knowledgeable and open to sharing ideas. He has an amazing ability to confidently deal with difficult stakeholders and stay calm under pressure."

Vybhav Iyengar

Audit Manager

"Kas's enthusiasm to learn and constantly improve his technical and people skills impressed me. An absolute pleasure to work with: a great team player who always delivers quality work on time."

Ann Lim

Internal Audit, Markets

"Kas is very passionate in his work. Always willing to help and learn. Would love to work with him again."

Edcile May Doromal-Manzano, CPA, CTP

Internal Audit Supervisor, Financial Markets

"I worked with Kasim on several audits and he was a pleasure to work with. Kasim always adhered to strict and tough deadlines, was able to provide valuable input and conducted impactful work."

Maksim Borisov

Audit Specialist

A personalised boutique approach

What a specialist gives you that a generalist firm can't.

Large & Generalist Firms

Generic AML templates reused across every client

Junior teams learning the rules on your engagement

Findings that read well but don't survive a regulatory challenge

Premium fees for partner names you rarely see

Reports that stop at the door, with no help to fix what they found

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Audits built around your business and the EU AML framework

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Senior specialists on every engagement, start to finish

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Findings framed the way regulators actually examine them

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Boutique fees and direct access to senior specialists

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We stay hands-on through remediation and re-testing, IIA-aligned

Latest insights

Plain-English analysis of the EU AML/CTF changes that matter. Hover to pause, click to read.

EU AML reform: the AMLR, AMLD6 and AMLA package

EU AML Package

The new EU AML/CTF package, explained

One regulation, one directive, one new supervisor, and the dates that matter for 2027 and 2028.

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AMLA

AMLA: how the EU's new supervisor will work

Who it supervises directly, how firms are selected, and why it matters from 2028.

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Risk Assessment

The business-wide risk assessment: what good looks like

The foundation regulators test first, and how to make yours defensible.

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Transaction Monitoring

Why more alerts isn't the answer

Coverage, tuning and alert quality matter far more than volume.

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Due Diligence

KYC, CDD and EDD: getting the tier right

Too little is a gap; too much is wasted cost. Apply the right level.

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Your questions, answered.

Common questions about our services and process.

Which institutions do you work with?

We work with banks, payment institutions, electronic money institutions, fintechs, crypto-asset service providers (CASPs), and asset managers across the EU. Our clients are supervised by national competent authorities such as DNB and BaFin. We're rooted in the Netherlands and work Europe-wide.

Which regulatory framework do you audit against?

Our audits are built around the EU AML framework: AMLD6, the incoming AML Regulation (AMLR), the EBA Guidelines and FATF standards, together with the national transposition that applies to you (such as the Wwft in the Netherlands). That way, our findings map directly to how your regulator supervises.

Can you help us prepare for, or respond to, a regulatory examination?

Yes. We run pre-examination readiness reviews so you find the gaps before your regulator does, and we support remediation and independent re-testing where your national competent authority has already raised findings or imposed measures.

What is a business-wide AML risk assessment, and can you review ours?

It's the structured, enterprise-wide assessment regulators expect every institution to maintain as the foundation of its control framework (known as the SIRA in the Netherlands). We give yours an independent challenge in any EU member state, testing its completeness, its methodology, and the link between the risks you've identified and the controls meant to mitigate them.

How are engagements scoped and priced?

Every engagement starts with a short scoping conversation about your risk profile, regulatory context, and objectives. We then agree fees in writing up front, either fixed-fee or day-rate, with no open-ended billing and no surprise partner hours.

Are you independent, and how quickly can you start?

We're fully independent of any software vendor or remediation provider, so our findings carry weight with your board and regulator. As a focused boutique, we carry no bench of juniors to keep busy, and can usually scope and start within weeks, whether you need a one-off review or a recurring programme.

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