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About
Advisors Assemble is a Singapore regulatory compliance consultancy founded by Jackie. We support fund managers, venture capital fund managers, registered insurance brokers and licensed financial advisers with practical compliance work, scoped to their activities and needs. Our services include relevant licensing or registration preparation, ongoing compliance and selected regulatory projects. For prospective digital payment token (DPT) service providers, we help prepare agreed application materials. For licensed DPT service providers, we provide selected review, reporting and remediation support alongside their in-house compliance function.
The starting point is understanding your business: its activities, customers, markets, people and existing arrangements. From there, we help turn regulatory requirements into clear responsibilities, workable procedures and appropriate controls.
Founder and Regulatory Compliance Consultant
Jackie is the founder of Advisors Assemble, a Singapore regulatory compliance consultancy. He brings up to 10 years of combined experience across compliance, regulatory risk and financial services, spanning banking, fund management, insurance broking, payments and capital-markets activities.
At one stage of his advisory career, Jackie managed compliance work for more than 20 licence holders concurrently. That experience exposed him to different business models, management structures and operating challenges, from firms preparing to launch to established businesses maintaining their ongoing obligations. His work has included supporting successful LFMC licensing applications, Registered Insurance Broker registrations and payment-services licensing applications involving Digital Payment Token services under the Payment Services Act.
His perspective also comes from holding responsibility inside a regulated business. As Compliance Team Lead across FOMO Pay and CapBridge's payments and capital-markets activities, he led a compliance team, oversaw reporting and higher-risk AML/KYC reviews, handled regulatory queries and advised senior management on the compliance implications of products and business decisions. His work included implementing Travel Rule processes through a vendor API workflow using transaction-monitoring data.
In Senior Compliance Manager and Risk Management Team Lead roles at Cambridge Advisers and RSM, Jackie managed client delivery, led and developed team members, reviewed controls and helped firms address regulatory and operational gaps. His earlier experience at Citibank covered technology and cross-border regulatory risk for payment systems across APAC, while his work at Standard Chartered involved group regulatory-compliance standards and control reviews across multiple markets.
Jackie has also performed internal audits for over 20 clients over the course of his career. His audit experience spans work at Citibank and Standard Chartered, as well as RSM, where he served multiple clients holding Capital Markets Services (CMS) licences.
Working across these roles has shaped how he approaches compliance: a policy should translate into clear responsibilities, workable procedures, appropriate supervision and evidence that the controls are operating. Advice also needs to account for the people, systems and resources a firm actually has, and explain the reasoning behind decisions that management must own.
Working across large institutions, audit engagements, fintech businesses and advisory portfolios taught Jackie that firms can face the same regulatory requirements while having very different operational needs.
Their products, customers, investors, markets and internal resources affect how those requirements should be implemented.
Advisors Assemble was founded to provide advice that takes those differences seriously. The work begins with listening, understanding the business and identifying what needs attention.
At larger advisory and professional services firms, an engagement may begin with partners and senior advisers, with day-to-day work delegated to junior and mid-level staff after the contract is signed. At Advisors Assemble, you work directly with Jackie from the initial discussion through the agreed delivery.
A licensing project should begin with an assessment of readiness. We help identify significant gaps in the proposed business, management arrangements and compliance framework before you commit substantial time and money to a full application.
You receive a clear explanation of the issues, their significance and what would need to change.
Policies and procedures should reflect what your team actually does. We help define responsibilities, decision points, checks, records and escalation arrangements so that staff can apply them consistently.
Where appropriate, we also identify opportunities to automate repetitive work and reduce manual errors.
Compliance decisions often require careful assessment of the facts. We help firms understand their obligations, evaluate risks and implement proportionate controls within the applicable requirements.
For higher-risk relationships or transactions, that includes assessing whether additional controls are sufficient and when a matter needs escalation or should not proceed.
You work directly with Jackie, with the scope, responsibilities and deliverables agreed at the outset.
An engagement may involve preparing an application, addressing audit findings, improving the compliance function or providing ongoing advice.
As your needs change, the scope should be reviewed too. Where the ongoing workload reduces, we can consider a lighter advisory arrangement and corresponding fees.
Whether you are preparing an application, reviewing existing arrangements or responding to regulatory questions, start with a focused conversation about your business and the issue you need to resolve.
Discuss your requirements