The firm
Alsina Advisory is a boutique audit firm built around a simple idea: independent financial crime assurance should be delivered by senior people who have actually sat in the third line of defence, not by a rotating bench of juniors. We audit AML and CFT frameworks, transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, customer due diligence and risk assessments, together with the wider non-financial risks that regulators now examine, for banks, payment institutions, electronic money institutions, fintechs and crypto-asset service providers across Europe.
We are deliberately independent. We do not sell software, run remediation or take commissions, so our findings carry weight with your board and your national competent authority. Every engagement is scoped and delivered by a senior specialist, and framed against the framework that supervises you, from AMLD6 and the incoming AMLR to the EBA Guidelines, FATF standards and your national rules such as the Dutch Wwft.
Kas Alsina, Founder
I'm Kas Alsina, founder of Alsina Advisory. I have spent over a decade in financial crime and internal audit, working in the third line of defence at Tier-1 banks, global payments businesses and fintechs, with audit coverage spanning Europe, the UK and Asia-Pacific.
My specialism is financial crime audit: AML and CFT, KYC and CDD, sanctions, and transaction monitoring, alongside the fast-moving Wwft and EU AMLA landscape. What interests me most is the gap between compliance on paper and how controls really work in practice, and my role is to close it with honest, risk-based audit. My regulatory coverage spans DNB, BaFin, FATF and the ECB.
As founder, I stay close to every engagement, so the people who scope your work are the people who deliver it and stand behind the report.
Accreditations
Seven professional designations across internal audit, anti-money laundering, fraud, information systems and risk.
Writing and insights
Kas writes regular educational analysis of EU AML reform on the Alsina Advisory insights blog, covering the AMLR, AMLD6, AMLA, the Dutch Wwft and the practicalities of financial crime controls. The analysis is educational and cites only official regulatory sources.