We build compliance infrastructure. You own it. We leave.
Start a ConversationForrest Fintech Consulting builds compliance programs and the infrastructure that runs them for companies in banking as a service, payments, and banking. We design BSA/AML programs, build and tune transaction monitoring, design KYC and KYB onboarding, prepare teams for regulatory examination, and stand up third-party risk and oversight. Then we hand it over and leave.
The compliance consulting industry has a business model problem. Most firms are incentivized to keep you dependent. We built Forrest to be the opposite of that.
The person who scopes your engagement is the person who does the work. We do not sell you a partner and staff you with a second-year associate billing at the partner rate.
We do not accept referral fees, commissions, or revenue share from any vendor we evaluate or recommend. Our recommendations are clean. Ask your current consultant if they can say the same.
Fixed scope. Fixed price. Defined before we start. No change orders unless you change the scope. No surprise invoices. No meter running in the background.
Everything we produce ships in formats you control. Open files, source code, documented infrastructure. Nothing lives in our systems. Nothing disappears when the contract ends.
We do not write assessments designed to generate follow-on engagements. If we find a gap, we hand you the remediation plan and the tools to close it yourself. We are not coming back to sell you the fix.
We will not manufacture urgency to expand scope. If your program is sound, we will tell you it is sound. We do not need you to be broken to have a business.
Forrest Fintech Consulting is a risk and compliance advisory for companies operating in banking as a service, payments, and banking. The firm designs BSA/AML programs, builds and tunes transaction monitoring, designs KYC and KYB onboarding, prepares teams for regulatory examination, and builds third-party risk and oversight frameworks. It also builds compliance infrastructure that clients own outright.
The firm is led by Drew Davidson, a BSA Officer and Head of Financial Crime with a decade across Square, Block, Mercury, Discover, and an early-stage payments fintech. He is joined by Chris Brewer, Director of Compliance Operations, and Jordan Wright, Director of Client Solutions Intelligence.
Ranger is the compliance workbench Forrest builds and deploys. It covers transaction monitoring, case management, SAR pipeline, sanctions screening, and identity lifecycle on a multi-tenant architecture. Clients receive the source code, the deployment runbook, and the infrastructure documentation, with no subscription and no data lock-in.
Forrest is built to remove dependency rather than create it. Fixed scope and fixed price, no hourly billing, no vendor kickbacks, no hostage deliverables, and no findings written to generate follow-on work. The person who scopes the engagement is the person who does the work.
Forrest is based in Saint Louis, Missouri, and serves clients across the United States. Reach the firm at contact@forrestfintechconsulting.com to discuss your compliance program.
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contact@forrestfintechconsulting.com
Saint Louis, Missouri