Financial Services Compliance Consulting

DBA Advisory builds and runs the compliance and back-office systems for financial services compliance — AML/KYC onboarding, regulatory reporting and SLA-governed administration under ASIC, APRA and AUSTRAC obligations.

How do financial services firms keep compliance from consuming operations?

By making compliance an output of well-designed systems rather than a manual burden. DBA Advisory embeds regulatory obligations — AML/CTF, licensee reporting, client due diligence — into automated, auditable workflows, so accuracy is the default and evidence is always ready for the regulator.

The sector operates under perpetual scrutiny. Regulatory change from AUSTRAC, ASIC and APRA compounds yearly; headcount can’t scale with it. Systems can.

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Is your firm ready for AML/CTF Tranche 2?

Since 1 July 2026, accountants, lawyers, conveyancers and real estate agents providing designated services are AUSTRAC reporting entities. Enrolment, a risk-based AML/CTF program, customer due diligence and ongoing monitoring are now mandatory. DBA Advisory designs, implements and runs working AML/CTF programs — not templates.

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How DBA Helps

DBA Advisory’s integrated framework transforms your operational landscape, ensuring compliance is an automated outcome of specialized financial services systems architecture, not a manual burden.

AML/KYC Client Onboarding

Identity verification, screening and documentation built into onboarding, cutting cycle times while meeting AML/CTF Rules.

Regulatory Reporting

Data integrity controls that make AUSTRAC, ASIC and licensee reporting accurate, on time and evidenced.

Compliance Operations Outsourcing

Ongoing CDD, monitoring and record-keeping delivered under strict SLAs with real-time KPI visibility.

Risk Data Management

Fragmented data consolidated into a single auditable architecture for confident capital and risk decisions.

Audit & Review Readiness

Demonstrable auditability built into daily operations, so independent reviews validate rather than excavate.

Resilient Systems Design

Continuity-first operations that keep client service running through disruption.

Guiding Future-Proof Transformation

DBA Advisory empowers organisations worldwide with the operational infrastructure required for global-scale performance. We don’t just solve problems; we are building future-proof resilience and the foundation that prevents them from returning. 

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Foundations for Borderless Scale

We provide the administrative precision required to achieve borderless scale through an institutional-grade operational model. Our architectural approach ensures you comply seamlessly, secure a resilient institutional foundation, and manage risk proactively.

It’s the delegation of customer identification, verification, screening and documentation to a specialist provider operating under your AML/CTF program. The obligations stay yours; the execution, evidence trail and turnaround times become systematised and SLA-governed.

AUSTRAC for AML/CTF, ASIC for licensing and conduct obligations, and APRA standards where they apply. We design controls to the Australian rules first, then map them to any additional cross-border requirements.

Yes — if they’re documented, evidenced and governed. Our delivery model produces the audit trail reviewers ask for: documented procedures, completion logs, exception registers and KPI reports, all attributable and time-stamped.

Software gives you a tool; we give you a running function. DBA combines the technology with trained people, documented procedures and SLAs — a managed compliance operation, not another licence to administer.

Typically 4–8 weeks from diagnostic to business-as-usual, depending on volumes and system access. Transition is staged so client-facing service never pauses.

Yes. Scope, price and SLAs are agreed before work begins, with volume bands for growth — no hourly-rate drift.

Compliance as an operating system, not a scramble

DBA Advisory’s solutions are anchored in integrated systems architecture specifically engineered to drive sustainable growth through regulatory precision. We empower your leadership to focus on strategic expansion while we maintain zero-error operational excellence.

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Alquin Dagamina

Business Transformation and Technology Services, Manager

We build the resilient foundations
YOU drive the growth