Forrest Fintech Consulting
We build compliance infrastructure. You own it. We leave.
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Purpose-built compliance infrastructure. Scoped to your program. Deployed to your environment. Owned by you.
Transaction Monitoring
Off-the-shelf rule library. Customer-authored rules. Custom-built detection logic. Severity scoring, alert triage, and investigator assignment. Every rule version-controlled with audit trail.
Case Management
Alert-to-case escalation. Investigation workflow with evidence binding, narrative drafting, and disposition tracking. Priority queues, SLA enforcement, and full case history.
SAR Pipeline
Eight-state filing workflow from draft through filed. Narrative drafting, evidence attachment, internal review, BSA Officer sign-off, and continuing activity tracking with prior SAR references.
Sanctions Screening
Real-time and batch screening against OFAC, UN, EU, and custom lists. One-hop counterparty graph adjacency detection. Match disposition and false positive management.
Identity Lifecycle
KYC/KYB onboarding, CDD, EDD trigger workflows, beneficial ownership tracking, and ongoing monitoring. Risk scoring at onboarding and recalculation on schedule or event.
Multi-Tenant Architecture
Isolated tenant environments with shared infrastructure. Per-tenant rule sets, user roles, data boundaries, and reporting. Built for programs managing multiple downstream relationships.
We also build the programs that run on top of it. BSA/AML program architecture, written policies and procedures, risk assessment methodologies, training frameworks, and board reporting packages. If your compliance operation needs it, we build it, document it, train your team, and hand it over.
You get the source code. You get the deployment runbook. You get the infrastructure documentation. No subscription. No data lock-in. No ongoing dependency. When we are done, your team runs it without us.
About
Not advisors who studied the regulations. Operators who built the systems, filed the SARs, sat in the exams, and scaled the infrastructure through hypergrowth. We started Forrest because we saw the same pattern at every fintech we touched: compliance teams spending more time managing their vendors than managing their programs. That is broken. We built the alternative.
Drew Davidson
Principal
Direct operational experience as a Chief Compliance Officer, BSA Officer, and Principal of Financial Crime for a global payments network. From startups to global institutions, he has built and scaled compliance infrastructure through periods of hypergrowth on more than one occasion. That hands-on experience, built inside the programs these partnerships depend on, translates directly into advisory work grounded in how compliance actually functions day to day.
LinkedIn →Chris Brewer
Director, Compliance Operations
Anthropologist turned compliance operator. Four years investigating fraud and dissecting transaction patterns at one of the largest payment platforms in the world. Now runs compliance operations for a fintech payment facilitator, managing AML program execution, FinCrimes reporting, KYC/KYB reviews, and sponsor bank oversight. Co-founded an independent consumer safety platform and a 501(c)(3) that built screening standards, incident transparency, and facilitator accountability infrastructure for an unregulated international industry. Designs AI governance and defensibility frameworks for regulated systems. His operating thesis applies equally to fintech and the rest of his work: compliance and harm reduction are the same discipline, both grounded in understanding how systems affect vulnerable people. B.S. Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis.
LinkedIn →Jordan Wright
Director, Client Solutions Intelligence
Over a decade of cross-functional program management, quality assurance, and data science at Block, coordinating engineering, data science, product, and operations teams across more than fifteen business units. Led AI-adjacent initiatives including LLM-powered QA pilots, designed enterprise reporting frameworks spanning thirty-plus dashboards, and built AI-assisted knowledge management systems. Brings process discipline, analytical depth, and client-facing instincts to every Forrest engagement. Data Science, Data Modeling/Warehousing, and Database Administration from Washington University in St. Louis.
LinkedIn →What We Do Not Do
The compliance consulting industry has a business model problem. Most firms are incentivized to keep you dependent. We built Forrest to be the opposite of that.
No Bait and Switch
The person who scopes your engagement is the person who does the work. We do not sell you a partner and staff you with a second-year associate billing at the partner rate.
No Vendor Kickbacks
We do not accept referral fees, commissions, or revenue share from any vendor we evaluate or recommend. Our recommendations are clean. Ask your current consultant if they can say the same.
No Hourly Billing
Fixed scope. Fixed price. Defined before we start. No change orders unless you change the scope. No surprise invoices. No meter running in the background.
No Hostage Deliverables
Everything we produce ships in formats you control. Open files, source code, documented infrastructure. Nothing lives in our systems. Nothing disappears when the contract ends.
No Findings Factories
We do not write assessments designed to generate follow-on engagements. If we find a gap, we hand you the remediation plan and the tools to close it yourself. We are not coming back to sell you the fix.
No Regulatory Fear Selling
We will not manufacture urgency to expand scope. If your program is sound, we will tell you it is sound. We do not need you to be broken to have a business.
Contact
Reach out to discuss how we can support your compliance program.
contact@forrestfintechconsulting.com
Saint Louis, Missouri