About VeloRisk
Built by fraud and financial crime practitioners.
For institutions that don't have a Big 4 budget.
Who We Built This For
VeloRisk was built for regulated financial institutions — community banks, credit unions, fintechs, and money service businesses — that face the same examination standards as the largest institutions in the country, but without the same resources to meet them.
A community bank with 30 employees gets examined by the OCC or FDIC under the same BSA/AML standards as a bank with 3,000. A credit union with two branches faces the same NCUA expectations as one with fifty. The examination manual doesn't have a small-institution carve-out. But the tools and services that exist to help organizations prepare for those examinations have historically been priced and structured for the largest players: the traditional approach costing $100,000 or more, six-month timelines, teams of interviewers.
VeloRisk closes that gap.
The Team Behind VeloRisk
VeloRisk was founded by Jesse McKenna, whose career spans fraud detection and financial crime prevention at eBay and PayPal; threat research and behavioral analytics at SilverTail Systems (acquired by RSA Security) and Neuro-ID (acquired by Experian); network security at vArmour (acquired by Fenix24), security risk program design at Blue Lava; and most recently money laundering detection and SAR prediction at Refine Intelligence. VeloRisk is the culmination of that experience.
Across that career, one pattern kept repeating: the largest institutions had sophisticated, well-resourced risk programs. Everyone else was working from downloaded checklists or paying for the traditional approach, and could only afford to do that once a year. The gap wasn't knowledge — it was access.
That experience is the foundation of how VeloRisk works. Findings are mapped to relevant guidance from the sources regulators and auditors actually cite — including FFIEC, FinCEN, FATF, NIST, and others.
Jesse built VeloRisk to put that capability to work for every institution that needs it — not just the ones that can afford the traditional approach.
Why VeloRisk Exists
The institutions most at risk of examination findings are often the ones with the fewest resources to prepare for them. A BSA Officer at a community bank isn't going to conduct a sophisticated program assessment with a downloaded PDF and a spreadsheet — but that's frequently all that's available at a price point that makes sense for an institution their size.
VeloRisk was built to give those institutions the same quality of analysis, the same depth of findings, and the same board-ready reporting that the largest institutions get from the traditional approach — at a price that works for a regional bank, a credit union, or a fintech navigating its first regulatory examination.
What VeloRisk Does
VeloRisk delivers Risk Strategy Programs — AML/CFT, Fraud, Enterprise Risk, AI Risk, and CMMC — through a purpose-built platform. Complete a guided assessment, and receive board-ready analysis with prioritized, actionable findings mapped to the compliance frameworks your regulators actually cite. Run it whenever your environment changes. A program, not a point-in-time report.
Guided Assessment
A structured set of questions about your program, no institution-specific setup or preparation required.
The Candor™ Analysis Engine
Candor evaluates your responses in context — your institution type, size, and regulatory environment — and produces findings calibrated to what your program actually looks like, not what you'd hope to see.
Living Platform + Reports
Findings, remediations, and KPI trends live in an interactive platform — updated with every assessment. Board-ready PDFs available anytime.
Compliance Mapping
Findings mapped to the standards your regulators actually cite — FFIEC BSA/AML, FATF 40, ACFE, NIST CSF, COSO, and more.
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