Inspection Support
From the day the notification letter lands to the day the findings are closed, I'm alongside you, so the visit is handled properly and nothing catches you out.
Learn moreI'm an independent consultant, brought in to review your controls, get your people ready and steer you through the inspection itself. Fifteen years in compliance and more than 50 inspections across Hong Kong (SFC) and Singapore (MAS).
Discreet, hands-on, and run by me personally from start to finish.
Three engagements, each shaped around how the SFC and MAS actually run an inspection. I scope every one to your licence type and your business, and I run it myself from start to finish.
From the day the notification letter lands to the day the findings are closed, I'm alongside you, so the visit is handled properly and nothing catches you out.
Learn moreA proper dry run of a real SFC or MAS visit: document review, file testing, live interviews. You get a straight, prioritised list of what I found and what to fix first.
Learn moreAn independent look at the controls the SFC and MAS care about, while there's still time to fix what's weak before anyone is at the door.
Learn moreInspection findings land in the same handful of places year after year, and the SFC and MAS mostly overlap. I build each review around what they're flagging right now, straight from their current circulars and guidance.
Identification, disclosure and management across funds, accounts and cross-trades — a standing regulatory priority.
Investment-within-mandate controls, limit monitoring and evidence that risk frameworks actually operate.
Illiquid and impaired assets, independent pricing and consistency — a recurring source of enforcement.
Customer due diligence, ongoing monitoring and transaction screening that stands up under testing.
FRR (SFC) and base / risk-based capital (MAS): monitoring, segregation of duties and timely, reconciled reporting.
Management supervision, segregation of duties and a defensible record the inspectors can follow.
Tight, hands-on, and confidential from the first call to the closed findings.
I profile your licence type, your business and your history to find where the real risk sits.
Document review, file sampling and live interviews, run the way the regulator runs them.
A frank, risk-rated report that separates the must-fix from the nice-to-have, with clear ownership.
I help you close the gaps and put your team through the questions, so they are steady on the day.
More than 50 inspections and mock inspections sit behind the advice you get. It is practical and specific to your firm, not theory.
I am on every file myself. Nothing is handed to a junior, and nothing comes off a template.
I keep up with the SFC's circulars and MAS's guidance, so your review reflects what they are focused on this year.
What we find stays between us. Confidentiality is the default on every engagement.
"Most of an inspection is decided long before the regulator turns up. My job is making sure the files, the controls and the people can handle the questions that actually come."
Lachlan Chubb · Global Compliance Edge
SFC & MAS Inspection Specialist · HK & SingaporePrivate funds and discretionary accounts sit right at the centre of what both regulators look at. I go through conflicts, valuation, within-mandate risk and the controls behind them, before the SFC or MAS does.
From client-asset handling and order management to capital adequacy and AML, I work through the controls and records that inspectors look at hardest in dealing firms.
The easiest place to start is a private conversation about where you stand and what I would actually do for you.
Monthly round-ups and briefings on what the SFC, MAS and ASIC are doing, and what it means for licensed firms.
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