Fiduciary & Compliance
Independent directors, AML programme design, economic substance and middle-office coordination.
Compliance is the file that survives after the structure is built. PWS Offshore provides independent directors, AML programme design, economic substance frameworks and ongoing compliance oversight for cross-border companies, funds, trusts and family-office structures.
Independent directors are not a nominee service. Our appointees are named professionals with regulator-registered qualifications who attend meetings, review resolutions and sign only after satisfying themselves the decision meets the entity's obligations. Their signature is real.
AML programme design goes beyond a template manual: risk assessment, client acceptance criteria, transaction monitoring rules, refresh cycles and MLRO reporting are calibrated to the entity's actual activity and refreshed annually.
Scope of engagement
- Independent local directors in 8 jurisdictions
- AML/KYC/CDD programme design
- Economic substance evidencing
Typical clients
- Structures requiring independent directors for governance or substance
- Regulated entities designing or refreshing an AML programme
- Family offices and funds needing ongoing compliance oversight
- Groups closing substance gaps identified in an audit or bank review
A coordinated specialist team, from first call to handover.
Existing governance, AML and substance documentation reviewed against jurisdictional obligations.
Board calendar, AML manual, substance memorandum and reporting cycle drafted.
Independent directors, MLRO and compliance officer appointed as required.
Quarterly board packs, annual filings, refresh cycles and regulator liaison.
What you receive.
Every engagement closes with a specialist-reviewed handover pack — retained on file for thirty years.
- Governance and substance memorandum
- AML risk assessment and manual
- Independent director and MLRO appointments
- Annual compliance calendar
- Regulator and bank-review support
Jurisdictions in active use for this service.
Questions we hear on every intake call.
- What does an independent director actually do?
- Attends board meetings, reviews resolutions, tests decisions against the entity's obligations, and signs only where satisfied. They are the last line of defence against transactions that fail bank, audit or regulator review.
- Do we still need our own compliance team?
- Usually yes, for day-to-day operations. PWS Offshore provides the framework, oversight and independent challenge — not the operational compliance function.
- How does economic substance evidencing work?
- We document real activity in-jurisdiction: board meetings held locally, decisions made there, staff or outsourced service providers used, and premises. The evidence file is refreshed and filed annually.
Start with a twenty-minute call. Leave with a written scope.
Every engagement begins with our advisory team and is assigned to the relevant specialists. Fixed fees are quoted in writing before any work begins.