anonym.legal
United Kingdom — UK GDPR & DPA 2018

Financial Services Compliance

Financial services compliance law is the body of UK regulation, principally the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, the Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds (Information on the Payer) Regulations 2017, and the FCA Handbook, that governs the conduct, systems, and controls of firms authorised to carry on regulated activities in the United Kingdom. FCA-regulated firms juggle competing duties on personal data: KYC packs, customer due-diligence files, suspicious activity reports, and transaction-monitoring alerts all carry customer identifiers that must be retained, shared selectively, and shielded by tipping-off restrictions. anonym.legal will offer en-GB workflows that pseudonymise these identifiers in line with UK GDPR, the Data Protection Act 2018, the Money Laundering Regulations 2017, the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, and the systems-and-controls expectations of the FCA SYSC handbook, preserving the regulatory narrative while protecting customers across compliance, audit, and external review. Task-specific guidance lands in US-011.

By the numbers

  • The FCA regulates the conduct of nearly 45,000 businesses in the UK, all of which must maintain personal data within customer due-diligence files, transaction records, and suspicious-activity report documentation.

    FCA, Prescribed Persons Annual Report 2023/24 (FCA website)

  • The FCA issued 12 financial penalties totalling £42,588,840 in 2023/24, including enforcement for failures in governance and systems and controls that allowed personal data to be mishandled within compliance processes.

    FCA, Enforcement Data 2023/24 (FCA website)

When this doesn't apply

  • Does not carry out suspicious-activity report (SAR) triage or advise on whether a transaction gives rise to a reportable suspicion under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 Part 7 — that legal assessment and the decision to submit a SAR to the NCA must be made by the firm's nominated officer.
  • Does not assess whether a firm's AML policies and controls meet the standard required by the Money Laundering Regulations 2017 or FCA SYSC 6 — gap analysis and remediation require qualified compliance consultants or legal advisers.

Tasks

About this page

We update this page when our platform or the law changes.

Read our founder note for how we work.

Each change shows up in the timestamp at the top.

Related reading

We follow these rules

  • GDPR (EU 2016/679).
  • ISO/IEC 27001:2022.
  • NIS2 (EU 2022/2555).
  • HIPAA safe harbor under 45 CFR § 164.514(b)(2).

Our promise

We do not sell your data.

We do not train models on your text.

We store your files in Germany.

You can delete your account at any time.

You own your work.

Where we run

Our company HQ is in Saarbrücken, Germany. Our servers run in Hetzner's Falkenstein datacenter.

Hetzner holds ISO 27001 certification.

All data stays in the EU.

Backups run every day.

Need help?

Email support@anonym.legal.

We reply within one business day.

How we test

We run a full check suite on every release.

Each surface gets its own sweep script and report.

Human reviewers spot-check the output each week.

We track recall and precision on a labelled set.

Bad runs block the deploy.

What we never do

  • We never sell your information to third parties.
  • We never train models on what you upload.
  • We never keep your work after you delete it.
  • We never share keys with any outside firm.
  • We never run ads inside the product.

Plans in plain words

We sell credits, not seats.

One credit covers one short job.

Long jobs use a few credits each.

You can top up at any time.

Unused credits roll over each month.

Read the plans page for current rates.

Who built this

A small team of engineers and lawyers built this.

We ship from Europe and work in the open.

Our founder note spells out why we started.

Where to start

How the parts fit

A browser add-on cleans text inside Chrome.

A Word plug-in handles drafts in Office.

A small desktop tool works on whole folders.

An agent protocol link feeds large models safely.

All four share one core engine and one rule set.

Words from our team

We started this work after a lunch about cookies.

One friend kept getting odd ads on her phone.

We asked why a court file leaked through a draft.

We sketched the first build on a napkin that week.

By month three we had a tiny demo for a friend.

She used it on her first case the next day.

Common questions we hear

Can the tool read scanned PDFs? Yes, with OCR.

Does it work on long files? Yes, in small chunks.

Can I roll my own rule set? Yes, save it as a preset.

Does it run offline? The desktop build runs offline.

Do you keep my files? No, the cloud build wipes after each run.

Will it learn from my work? No, we never train on inputs.

A short tour of the workflow

Upload a file or paste a snippet of prose.

Pick the entities you want gone from the draft.

Choose a method: replace, mask, hash, encrypt, or redact.

Press run and watch the side panel show each hit.

Skim the result and tweak any rule that misfired.

Save the cleaned file or send it to a teammate.