CompliancePoint — Independent Financial Crime Advisory

Why CompliancePoint

Compliance that works because it's built from the inside

Financial crime compliance advisory — business strategy session

The integrated risk model — our point of difference

In online gambling, financial crime risk, fraud risk, and safer gambling obligations don't exist in silos — they intersect constantly. A customer using a stolen card to fund their account is simultaneously an AML problem, a fraud problem, and potentially a safer gambling problem. Treating these separately creates gaps, duplication, and blind spots.

CompliancePoint builds integrated compliance teams and frameworks that combine financial crimes, fraud risk, and safer gambling into one unified operating model. The result: smarter controls, fewer gaps, lower cost — and outcomes that protect both the business and the customer.

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Deep Sector Expertise

15+ years experience in Financial Crimes Advisory in global & domestic Banks and running compliance programs within licensed online gambling businesses — including MLRO roles at William Hill Australia and KenoGO. We understand your business, your regulator, and your risk landscape.

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Integrated, Not Siloed

We combine AML/CTF, fraud risk, and safer gambling into a single coherent framework — eliminating duplicated effort, closing cross-discipline gaps, and delivering controls that are genuinely sharp.

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Strategic Outcomes

Delivered measurable commercial value through risk and compliance leadership, including more than $1 million in annualised cost savings, fraud losses maintained below 0.16% of turnover, and operational efficiencies that strengthened both profitability and regulatory outcomes.

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Senior-Level Access

When you engage CompliancePoint, you work directly with Porus Govekar — a CAMS-certified specialist and proven MLRO with real program accountability.

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AUSTRAC Ready

Proven regulatory engagement and audit readiness programs built from direct experience managing the AUSTRAC relationship across multiple licensed online gambling businesses.

What We Do

Services

Practical, expert-led advisory across the full financial crime compliance lifecycle — from program design and risk assessment through to regulatory engagement, RegTech implementation, and governance uplift.

Financial crime compliance — professional document review

AML/CTF Program Design & Uplift

End-to-end design or enhancement of AML/CTF programs aligned to the AML/CTF Act and AUSTRAC expectations — risk-based, operationally practical, and built to scale with your business.

AML/CTF Program Health Checks

Objective, independent assessment of your existing AML/CTF program — identifying control gaps, documentation deficiencies, and practical remediation priorities before the regulator does.

AML Risk Assessments & Control Uplift

Comprehensive ML/TF risk assessments that accurately reflect your customer base, product suite, and delivery channels — with a clear remediation roadmap to lift controls where it matters most.

Transaction Monitoring Optimisation

Review and tuning of transaction monitoring systems to reduce false positives, improve alert quality, and ensure your team is focused on genuine risk.

SMR Governance Uplift

End-to-end review and uplift of Suspicious Matter Reporting governance — covering detection, escalation, investigation, and reporting frameworks to ensure your SMR program is fit-for-purpose and defensible.

MLRO / AMLCO Advisory Support

Drawing on direct MLRO/AMLCO experience across licensed online gambling and Tier 1 banking, CompliancePoint provides expert advisory support to your existing MLRO or Designated AML/CTF Compliance Officer — strengthening program capability, improving regulatory confidence, and providing a trusted sounding board on complex financial crime issues.

AUSTRAC Readiness & Regulatory Engagement

Audit readiness programs, AUSTRAC engagement strategy, and representation support — built from direct experience managing the regulator relationship in online gambling environments.

eIDV / KYC / CDD / EDD Framework Design

Customer due diligence and identity verification frameworks designed for the digital onboarding context — balancing regulatory compliance with customer experience and commercial efficiency.

RegTech Implementation & Optimisation

Selection, implementation, and optimisation of RegTech solutions — ensuring your technology investment translates into genuine compliance capability.

Board & Senior Management Oversight Uplift

Governance frameworks, reporting structures, and board-level briefings that give your leadership team genuine oversight of financial crime risk.

CompliancePoint Financial Crime Centre of Excellence

Our flagship offering for online gambling operators: a purpose-built Financial Crime Centre of Excellence that integrates AML/CTF, fraud risk, and safer gambling into a single operating model — with 24/7 monitoring capability, a unified governance framework, and clear escalation pathways. Built from direct experience establishing this model at Australian licensed online gambling companies, the Centre of Excellence eliminates operational silos, sharpens controls, and produces better outcomes for both the business and its customers.

AML/CTF Fraud Risk & Payment Controls Safer Gambling Governance 24/7 Monitoring Capability Unified Operating Model Board-Level Reporting

Who We Work With

Sectors

CompliancePoint's primary focus is regulated digital businesses — particularly online gambling operators where the intersection of financial crime, fraud, and safer gambling is most complex.

Online Gambling & Bookmakers

Our core sector. Deep expertise in the regulatory, operational, and risk environment of Australian licensed online gambling and wagering.

Pubs & Clubs

Assist Pubs & Clubs with EGMs to comply with their AML/CTF obligations and uplift controls — including safer gambling controls.

FinTech & Digital Financial Services

AML/CTF program design and uplift for fintechs, digital wallets, and payment platforms navigating AUSTRAC obligations.

Tranche 2 Entities

If you're an accountant, lawyer, real estate agent, or you provide a designated service, Australia's new AML laws apply from July 2026. CompliancePoint can assist to meet your AML/CTF obligations.

Porus Govekar

CAMS | Principal Consultant
CompliancePoint

Senior Financial Crime & AML/CTF Specialist with 15+ years of end-to-end program experience across Tier 1 global banks and regulated digital businesses.

Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS)

ACAMS

Diploma of Applied AML/CTF Management

International Compliance Association (ICA)

porus.govekar@compliancepoint.com.au 0430 417 079 Sydney, NSW compliancepoint.com.au

About

Proven expertise in building & uplifting financial crime programs that actually work

CompliancePoint was founded by Porus Govekar — a CAMS-certified financial crime specialist who has spent 15+ years in financial crime operations and advisory roles in banking as well as licensed online gambling providers. From MLRO roles at William Hill Australia and KenoGO to senior AML positions at J.P. Morgan, CBA, and Citibank, Porus has designed and operated compliance programs at every scale and level of complexity.

What sets CompliancePoint apart isn't just the credentials — it's the philosophy. Porus has a proven track record of building non-siloed risk and compliance teams that combine financial crime, fraud risk, and safer gambling into one integrated operating model. The result is compliance that is genuinely sharp: controls that work together rather than against each other, and outcomes that serve both the business and its customers.

CompliancePoint was established to bring that same approach — giving regulated digital businesses access to senior, practical financial crime expertise without the overhead of a large firm.

William Hill Australia

Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MLRO)

Designed and implemented a comprehensive AML/CTF framework across multiple wagering brands, including integration of Sportingbet, Centrebet, and Tom Waterhouse acquisitions. Re-structured Risk & Compliance department into a unified, non-siloed operating model to improve governance, increase efficiency, and enhance cross-functional risk visibility across AML, fraud and broader financial crime domains. Led AUSTRAC engagement and audit readiness programs.

KenoGO

Head of Risk, Compliance & Regulatory Affairs / MLRO

Built financial crime, safer gambling, and fraud risk functions from the ground up. Established scalable operating model through offshore capability expansion to enhance monitoring coverage, improve governance consistency and deliver improved compliance outcomes within budget constraints. Maintained fraud losses below 0.16% of turnover, and operational efficiencies.

J.P. Morgan

AML Compliance Officer (AU & NZ)

Led AML/CTF program execution, SMR governance uplift, and financial crimes advisory across all lines of business in Australia and New Zealand.

CBA & Citibank

Senior Financial Crime Roles

Delivered risk assessments, KYC remediation, sanctions compliance, and audit readiness across institutional and retail banking — supporting enterprise-wide uplift programs.

Financial Crime Compliance Built for Online Gambling Companies