See The Risks.

Expose the Networks.

Protect the Future. 

Sanctions, financial crime, and crisis risk, seen from the operational side.
RiskWise advises financial institutions, law firms, fintechs, and global companies. Led by a former U.S. Government senior officer with twenty years across the Middle East, Asia, and Europe.

Rules describe what is prohibited. Risk comes from the people working around them.
We spent two decades tracking those people, and we bring that view to the organizations facing them now.

What we do
Sanctions & Financial Crime Advisory
Litigation Support & Expert Consultation
Crisis Readiness & Security Risk
Training & Leadership Development
Technical Risk & Analytics

Who we work with
Law firms • Financial institutions & fintechs • Companies operating across borders • Investors & expert networks •  Foreign companies & government entities engaging the U.S.

English • Farsi • Dari • German | U.S. • UAE • ASEAN • UK • Europe

Our Services

What distinguishes our approach: Our team has built and deployed these capabilities in real operational environments, disrupting major illicit finance networks alongside global law enforcement and intelligence agencies. We bring field-proven investigative instincts together with cutting-edge technical methods.

Every engagement starts with a short call to understand the problem. Most work is scoped as a fixed-fee assessment, a defined advisory project, or an ongoing retainer. Our founders lead every engagement personally and add specialist associates when the work calls for them.

  • For financial institutions, fintechs, and companies with cross-border exposure.

    •  Assessment of AML/CFT and sanctions programs against current evasion methods, including front companies, layered intermediaries, trade-based money laundering, and informal value transfer

    •  Gulf, MENA, Africa, and Asia financial-crime exposure reviews

    •  Supply-chain and counterparty risk: how illicit actors use procurement, logistics, and trade to reach their targets

    •  Review of transaction-monitoring and sanctions-screening logic from an investigator's perspective, including digital-asset exposure

    • Guide and Advisory for U.S. firms entering foreign markets, and foreign firms engaging U.S. regulators, through the financial-crime and sanctions issues that come with the move.

  • For law firms, investors, and expert networks. Support provided as a non-testifying consulting expert across these subject areas:

    •  Sanctions and export controls, including Iran and North Korea programs, front companies, and evasion structures

    •  Terrorist financing, money laundering, and illicit-finance typologies, including trade-based, informal, and digital-asset channels

    •  Nuclear nonproliferation and proliferation finance

    •  Middle East, Gulf, Afghanistan, and Asia political and security context, including Farsi- and Dari-language material

    •  Crisis response, security incidents, insider threat, and cyber-incident coordination

    •  How U.S. Government agencies, regulators, and international bodies (OFAC, FinCEN, FATF, the UN, the IAEA) actually make and coordinate decisions

    What that support looks like:

    •  Case strategy: analysis of how the actors, governments, or institutions behind a matter actually operate

    •  Cross-examination preparation: reviewing opposing expert reports and testimony for unsupported assumptions, factual gaps, and claims that don't match how these systems work in practice, and drafting targeted lines of questioning

    •  Witness preparation support: helping counsel anticipate the technical and regional questions their own witnesses and experts will face

    •  Expert-network consultations on geopolitical, security, and financial-crime exposure

  • For companies with people, operations, or events in higher-risk regions.

    •  Crisis-plan and escalation-protocol reviews, with clear thresholds for when to act

    •  Tabletop exercises and crisis simulations for leadership teams

    •  Regional security and political-risk briefings for executives and traveling staff

    •  Insider-threat program design and review

  • For compliance teams, investigation units, red-team/blue-team tabletop exercises, and organizations building capability.

    •  Financial-crime and sanctions-evasion training built on real typologies, adapted for regional legal and language differences

    •  Experiential, scenario-based exercises that change how analysts work, not only what they know

    •  Leadership assessments for personnel in high-risk international roles

    •  Train-the-trainer programs so the capability stays after the engagement ends