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ExamReady
Know Your Regulator: what your regulator is asking now, a mock examination without the questions in advance, and your people prepared to answer for the program.

Compliance X-Ray
An expert-led, AI-enabled diagnostic of your whole compliance framework: where it holds, where it breaks, and what to fix first.

RiskReady
Your enterprise compliance risk assessment, the engagement the industry calls a risk 360: obligations, inherent risk, controls and residual risk in one document a board and an examiner can read.

Market Entry Matrix
Target markets and every compliant route into them, compared on opportunity, burden, cost, time to revenue and risk, with a recommended structure.

Why Taft
Regulatory systems built by people who have run them, and examined them.
Former compliance officers and regulators. Institutional experience across regulatory regimes, jurisdictions and operating scale. Practical, durable, proportional to the risk.
See Our DifferenceOur approach
More compliance is not always better compliance.
Every engagement starts with four questions.
What is actually required?
The obligations that apply to your license, your products and your customers, and nothing borrowed from a bigger firm’s rulebook.
What actually creates risk?
Where the real exposure sits, which is rarely where the thickest policy is.
What can be simplified?
Controls that do the same job twice, approvals nobody reads, reports nobody uses.
Where are you already doing too much?
Where a program built for a past examiner or a past product is costing more than it protects.

Launch & Expand
Regulatory model, licensing, compliance build and market-entry strategy for firms launching or expanding.

Fractional Compliance Team
A fractional CCO, MLRO or BSA officer and the team behind them, on the hours and terms your business actually needs.

Expert Line
Scheduled and priority access to senior compliance judgment, by subscription or per call.

AI & Automation Studio
Compliance automation, AI governance and financial-crime AI readiness for firms that need efficiency without a bank’s budget.

Quantum Compliance
Know where your firm depends on quantum-vulnerable cryptography, who owns the risk and what to do first, before regulators require it.
Know Your Regulator
What your regulator is focused on, what it is finding at firms like yours, and what is coming next.
We read examination priorities, recent findings, enforcement actions, speeches and proposed rules, and we watch what is happening to firms with a license and a business like yours. That intelligence shapes every review we run and every person we prepare.
How we study your regulatorLatest article, Nov 2, 2026
FinCEN FIN-2019-G001, "Application of FinCEN's Regulations to Certain Business Models Involving Convertible Virtual Currencies" (May 9, 2019): The BSA/AML Thresholds Explained
FIN-2019-G001 created no new rules: it applied FinCEN's existing money transmitter regulations to crypto business models. The thresholds a crypto business builds around sit in 31 CFR, and FinCEN's 2026 stablecoin rules are still proposals.
Read it ↗︎Article, Nov 2, 2026
FinCEN's Foreign-Agent Alert: The Contract Does Not Carry Your AML Liability
Article, Nov 2, 2026
SEC Risk Alert "Examinations of Advisers and Funds That Outsource Their Chief Compliance Officers" (November 9, 2015), Explained for Small Advisers
Article, Nov 2, 2026
SEC Risk Alert "Investment Advisers: Assessing Risks, Scoping Examinations, and Requesting Documents" (September 6, 2023), Explained for First-Time Private Fund Advisers
Article, Nov 2, 2026
SEC Risk Alert "Observations from Examinations of Newly-Registered Advisers" (March 27, 2023): What It Says and What Has Changed
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