Following the introduction of MONEYVAL, being a modern trustee comes with an even higher gold-standard of regulatory best practice. A trustee now has to prove to the regulator precisely why a decision was taken at any given moment in time.

On top of this, trustees must evidence process control, demonstrate adherence to evolving standards, and show precision in their control processes.

If your Trust or Corporate Services business is already at capacity, identifying these vital data points at the drop of a hat is challenging. It's no longer sustainable to rely on hunting through files or digging through siloed systems that don't connect.

This way of working doesn't just hamper compliance — it stretches your team thin, erodes customer trust and prevents everyone in the business from doing their best work.

This is an issue affecting financial services globally. New research from TheCityUK and PwC UK found that 84% of compliance officers and senior compliance professionals across UK financial services firms have seen their compliance costs either increase (53%) or significantly increase (31%). The same report recommends that firms embrace technology and safe AI to realise long-term savings and improve compliance risk management.

All this got us thinking at Optifi: how do we empower our clients with a defensible risk and compliance framework that evidences every decision in a trackable, precise way? The solution didn't exist — until we built it.

Optifi is a single platform that integrates all your existing systems, digitises your documents and provides complete visibility across every transaction, client portfolio and task in a single dashboard. It transforms data into insights so you can lead with evidence, not instinct — and gives you the peace of mind that every single decision is logged and fully auditable, without you or your team having to lift a finger.