Compliance Management, Simplified

We help clients develop effective regulatory compliance and financial crime prevention programs, designing controls that reduce risk exposure.

Explore COMPLIANCE solutions

Straife’s global team is comprised of former regulators, compliance officers, and law enforcement officials, as well as attorneys, academics, experienced consultants, and IT specialists. Our years of experience and deep sector knowledge allow us to deliver bold, comprehensive solutions that empower clients to act with clarity and decisiveness.

Straife works with clients to meet industry best practices for a wide variety of compliance requirements, including U.S. Sanctions (OFAC/BIS), Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), European Green Deal, EU single market regulations and other US, EU, and international compliance regimes.

Identify compliance program gaps

With the support of a team of experts, Straife determines areas of improvement and actionable insights to empower clients to take their compliance program to the next level.

Build a culture of compliance

As former compliance professionals and regulators, our experts highlight tactics to help clients build and maintain an active culture of compliance.

A pulse on the regulatory landscape

Through deep regulatory knowledge, Straife subject matter experts amplify compliance efforts and ensure clients stay up-to-date with the latest industry alerts.

HOW IT WORKS

Ensuring your organization has the right safeguards in place

Our experience with sanctions programs, regulations, case law, and various specialty statutes directed at sanctioned countries and entities helps advise businesses on complex compliance rules and regulations. We evaluate corporate risk in a rigorous, disciplined manner, pinpointing real problems, delivering real solutions when developing a risk and compliance program.

Our experts provide risk assessments, investigations, program development and implementation advisory, program management, and training.

COMPLIANCE SOLUTIONS

Helping clients navigate and manage regulatory compliance

Compliance Assessments & Audits

Straife builds risk-based compliance programs around each client's business model. Thorough internal audits and investigations surface sanctions risks and blind spots, map key compliance gaps, and produce a blueprint for building or revising your compliance program.

Program Development

Our advisors cover the full spectrum of compliance issues — anti-corruption, economic sanctions, AML, counter-terrorist financing, competition law, and other regulatory regimes. Every engagement designs a program with the full lifecycle of compliance in mind.

Compliance as a Service

Regulatory requirements are demanding. Straife's subject matter experts handle compliance implementation, management, and maintenance with minimal impact on your day-to-day operations.

Training

Specialized training keeps organizations current on complex international and domestic requirements. A customized train-the-trainer model combined with e-learning technology builds in-country knowledge, cuts training costs, and drives measurable compliance outcomes.

AI Advisory

AI-Enhanced Compliance

Explore AI Advisory

Automated Regulatory Change Monitoring — AI systems that track regulatory updates across jurisdictions and flag compliance gaps in real time.

AI-Assisted Due Diligence & KYC — Accelerate and sharpen know-your-customer and third-party screening with AI-powered entity resolution.

Compliance Program Effectiveness Assessment — Data-driven diagnostics to measure and improve compliance program performance.

Latest Insights

Learn about significant trends, explore proprietary data, and read expert analysis on the global outlook.

More insights

Sham Transactions and the New OFAC Playbook: What Companies Need to Know

OFAC's March 2026 advisory targets sham transactions designed to disguise sanctioned persons' continuing interest in assets.

Diverging Sanctions Regimes: Navigating the U.S.–EU–UK Compliance Gap on Russia

U.S., EU, and UK sanctions on Russia are increasingly diverging in scope, enforcement, and exemptions.

The Shadow Fleet Problem: How Maritime Sanctions Evasion Creates Compliance Risk on Land

An aging fleet of tankers is moving sanctioned oil using spoofed tracking data, flag-switching, and layered shell companies.