After nearly two decades working alongside compliance leaders, I built the tool I wished had existed.

The story

I came to compliance in 2004, when I co-founded Compliancy Services – a compliance consultancy for UK financial services firms. Before that I had spent a decade in financial services and technology. What I brought to compliance was not a regulatory background but a commercial and operational one and I think that shaped how I approached the problem differently. 

Over the following fifteen years I built Compliancy Services from a startup into one of the UK’s leading independent compliance consultancies. We worked with thousands of FCA-regulated firms – asset managers, wealth managers, insurance brokers, capital markets firms, banks, payment businesses and more. That breadth of experience gave me a detailed understanding of how compliance actually operates across the full range of UK regulated financial services – not just in one sector or one function. 

When I sold the business, the problem I had watched compliance leaders struggle with for two decades had not gone away. 

Why My Compliance Centre

My Compliance Centre was founded in 2021 because the problem I had watched compliance leaders struggle with had not been solved. Regulated firms were managing dozens of compliance processes – monitoring programmes, governance frameworks, employee obligations, regulatory change – almost entirely on spreadsheets, emails and institutional memory. Not because they lacked the intelligence to do better. It was because no one had built something that properly served the breadth of what they needed to manage. 

That is what we set out to do.

My Compliance Centre is a modular, integrated platform built specifically for FCA-regulated firms. It was designed by people who understand compliance from the inside – not by technologists looking at the market from the outside. That distinction matters more than it might appear. It means the platform reflects how compliance actually works, not how it looks in a product specification.