Scion for Solicitors

We act as a scalable extension of in-house compliance teams, bringing specialist AML expertise to triage risk, accelerate onboarding, and provide ongoing monitoring throughout the client lifecycle.

Powered by an industry-leading risk intelligence engine

Delivering efficient, defensible and scalable support

Senior compliance specialisation (SMF17)

Our Approach

Led by a senior compliance specialist (SMF17) and supported

by a team of technology enabled partners, we deliver

compliance services with precision and scale. Every client

benefits from direct access to experienced compliance

leadership, supported by specialist expertise and advanced

technological tools, without the burden of expanding internal

headcount.

Our foundations were built working with leading fintech

innovators including Ebury, Monzo, eToro and Algbra. Since

incorporation we have expanded our support to multinational

organisations such as Coinbase, ClearBank, Privat3 Money and

Trading212. This breadth of experience gives us a strong

understanding of how to meet regulatory expectations while

enabling commercial ambition in high growth and

internationally focused businesses.

Legal Expansion

As the regulatory landscape evolves, with law firms preparing

for increased FCA oversight, we are extending our proven

approach into the legal sector. This allows us to apply our

experience managing complex onboarding, financial crime

risk, and client structures to support legal practices handling

high-risk matters, cross-border entities, trusts, and

sophisticated client arrangements.

Many firms decline work due to onboarding complexity or

uncertainty around AML exposure. We help remove those

barriers so that more high-value clients can be accepted safely

and efficiently, strengthening compliance while enabling

growth.

We do not replace internal compliance professionals. We

enhance them. Our role is to provide specialist insight,

proactive risk mitigation, and practical decision support that

empowers firms to act with confidence from onboarding

through to ongoing matter management.

Who We Serve

We currently support financial services organisations with

complex customer profiles, multi-jurisdictional structures, and

heightened exposure to financial crime risk. Our expertise

enables clients to onboard challenging counterparties with

confidence, mitigating risk without sacrificing commercial

opportunity.

We act as a scalable extension of in-house compliance teams,

bringing specialist AML expertise to triage risk, accelerate

onboarding, and provide ongoing monitoring throughout the

client lifecycle. We deliver the capability of a senior compliance function, led by an FCA-approved SMF17, without the fixed cost of expanding headcount.

Risk Insights

Through our partner network we gain access to a powerful,

industry-leading risk intelligence engine that draws on over

11,000 distinct risk indicators and a global knowledge base of

more than 150,000 report pages from trusted sources

worldwide.

This external intelligence covers a comprehensive

range of financial crime and regulatory threats - from money

laundering and sanctions risk to fraud, corruption and other

compliance challenges.

The system tailors risk assessments to the nature of each client, structure, jurisdiction and transaction type, ensuring that every onboarding decision, due diligence review or ongoing monitoring exercise is grounded in current, context-specific global data.