GIFT City outsourced compliance support.
Ongoing compliance, filings, governance coordination, and regulator engagement — delivered as a managed, senior-led service for funds, fintechs, and financial institutions operating in the IFSC.
Outsourced compliance support for GIFT City entities.
For most GIFT City entities, the compliance burden does not begin at authorisation — it begins after it. Once an entity is licensed, IFSCA expects the compliance framework to actually function: AML and KYC monitoring runs, periodic filings are made, board materials are produced, transactions are reviewed, regulator queries are answered, and the compliance function operates with a designated officer and documented controls. Building that capability in-house is expensive, slow to mature, and disproportionate for newer or leaner entities.
AxiomSync delivers compliance as a managed, outsourced service — covering the full operational compliance workstream for IFSC entities. The service is led by senior practitioners holding ACAMS, CISI, LLM, and CA qualifications, with delivery discipline drawn from over twenty years of group experience providing outsourced compliance and post-authorisation services across DIFC, ADGM, and other international financial centres.
Built for regulated entities requiring ongoing compliance support.
AxiomSync provides outsourced compliance support to IFSC entities that need experienced compliance capability, governance oversight, and regulatory coordination without maintaining a large in-house compliance function.
Fund Managers & AIF Platforms
Newly authorised FMEs, AIFs, and fund managers in their first 12–24 months of operation.
Fintech & Payment Service Providers
Fintechs and payment service providers without a dedicated compliance officer.
Family Offices & Investment Funds
Family offices and family investment funds that want professional compliance without building a function.
Banking, Finance & Leasing Entities
IFSC Banking Units, finance companies, and aircraft and ship lessors with lean operating models.
International Group Structures
International groups whose GIFT City entity needs IFSCA-specific compliance capability alongside parent-group oversight.
TechFin & Ancillary Service Providers
TechFin, BATF, and Ancillary service providers requiring ongoing IFSCA-aligned compliance support.
Inspection & Audit Readiness
Entities preparing for IFSCA inspection, audit, or investor due diligence and needing dedicated support.
What we cover
Regulatory filings and reporting
We manage the periodic filings required of IFSCA-regulated entities — including quarterly and annual returns, financial reporting, AML and CFT reporting, transaction-related disclosures, and other category-specific submissions. Each filing is tracked against a documented compliance calendar with named ownership and submission evidence.
AML and KYC operational support
We run the day-to-day operational compliance workstream — KYC file review, sanctions and PEP screening, source-of-funds and source-of-wealth checks, periodic CDD refreshes, transaction monitoring, suspicious transaction analysis, and STR preparation where required. The work is delivered against the entity's documented framework and is auditable.
Compliance Officer and MLRO coverage
For entities that require a Compliance Officer or MLRO function, we provide named-individual coverage at senior level, including documented appointment, role-specific reporting lines, and the operational support that makes the role function in practice. This is particularly important for newer entities or those without local compliance bandwidth.
Board and governance support
We prepare board and committee materials — compliance reports, risk reports, MLRO reports, governance papers, and minutes — to a standard expected by IFSCA and parent-group reviewers. We also coordinate the compliance calendar against the board meeting cycle so reporting is consistent and timely.
Regulator interaction and inspection support
We manage routine regulator correspondence and queries, and provide structured support during IFSCA thematic reviews, on-site inspections, or supervisory engagement. We also support remediation work where past compliance gaps need to be addressed before inspection or audit.
Policy maintenance and framework refreshes
We refresh and update the compliance framework as regulations change and as the business evolves — including periodic policy reviews, refreshed risk assessments, updated training materials, and revised monitoring rules. This keeps the framework current rather than letting it drift out of date.
Investor and counterparty due diligence support
We support the entity through investor onboarding due diligence, correspondent banking reviews, fund administrator reviews, and counterparty compliance requests — providing the documentation, evidence, and structured responses these reviewers expect.
A typical AxiomSync outsourced compliance engagement runs across four stages.
Onboarding and baseline review
Review the entity's authorisation, documented framework, and current state. Identify gaps, baseline the compliance position, and design the operating model for the outsourced service.
Operating model setup
Set up the compliance calendar, monitoring tools, reporting templates, and named ownership for each workstream. Agree on governance touchpoints with the board, parent group, and regulator engagement leads.
Ongoing delivery
Run the compliance workstream against the agreed scope — filings, monitoring, KYC reviews, board reporting, regulator interaction — with documented evidence of each output.
Periodic review and uplift
Review the framework and operating model at scheduled intervals, refresh for regulatory or business change, and support audit, inspection, and due diligence as needed.
Where international experience matters.
GIFT City compliance does not exist in isolation. For internationally regulated promoters — UAE-based managers, GCC family offices, European institutions, or NRI-led platforms — the IFSC compliance posture must align with parent-group standards, FATF expectations, and the requirements of correspondent banks, fund administrators, and investors based outside India.
AxiomSync's outsourced compliance service draws on the wider 10 Leaves group experience providing post-authorisation and outsourced compliance services across DIFC and ADGM since 2004 — including outsourced MLRO and Compliance Officer support for regulated entities operating across multiple international financial centres. That perspective shapes how we run the service for clients whose compliance posture has to hold up under more than one set of eyes.
20+
Years of group experience2004
Supporting regulated firms since3+
Major financial centres servedCompliance experience across jurisdictions
Frequently asked questions about outsourced compliance support in GIFT City.
Outsourced compliance typically covers regulatory filings, AML and KYC operational work, transaction monitoring, board and governance reporting, regulator interaction, policy maintenance, and inspection or audit support. The exact scope is defined per engagement and depends on the entity's licence category, business model, and existing in-house capability.
For some categories and for some stages of an entity's lifecycle, yes — outsourced arrangements with a named senior individual can satisfy IFSCA's expectations, subject to the framework and the specific category. For other categories, in-house roles are required and the outsourced service complements rather than replaces them. We confirm the right model during onboarding.
AxiomSync prices outsourced compliance on an annual retained basis, scoped to the entity's licence category, transaction volumes, investor base, and reporting cadence. The model is designed to be predictable and proportionate, rather than transactional. We provide a structured proposal after an initial diagnostic.
Where the entity has an internal team, AxiomSync's role is structured around theirs — typically owning specific workstreams (such as AML monitoring, regulatory filings, or board reporting) while the in-house team retains overall accountability. Where there is no in-house team, AxiomSync runs the full compliance function under documented governance.
Outsourcing of certain compliance and operational functions is recognised under IFSCA's regulatory framework, subject to documented arrangements, retained accountability at the regulated entity, and adherence to outsourcing-related regulatory expectations. We document the arrangement and the controls so the relationship is transparent to the regulator.
Yes. We provide structured inspection and review support — including pre-inspection readiness, documentation organisation, response coordination during the review, and remediation work afterwards. This is offered as part of the broader engagement or as a discrete workstream.
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Whether you have just been authorised and need to put a compliance function in place, or you are reviewing an existing arrangement that is no longer fit for purpose, AxiomSync can take on the compliance workstream as a managed, senior-led service.