Stuart Watkins, Founder & CEO of Zenoo
Author and reviewer

Stuart Watkins

Founder & CEO, Zenoo (the team behind AML Buddy)

Stuart founded Zenoo, the UK identity verification and compliance technology company behind AML Buddy, and has spent more than a decade building onboarding and screening technology for global institutions. Zenoo counts Sotheby's, NASA and the London Stock Exchange among its clients.

At AML Buddy he writes and reviews the compliance guides for UK estate and letting agents, solicitors, accountants and financial advisers, so that small regulated firms get the same quality of guidance as large institutions.

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Background

  • Founder and CEO of Zenoo, which builds identity verification, screening and client onboarding technology for regulated businesses.
  • Director of Zenoo Ltd (company number 11093114) since December 2017, as listed on the Companies House register.
  • More than a decade building onboarding and screening technology for global institutions.
  • Founder of AML Buddy, which brings that technology to small UK firms on a pay-per-check basis.

In his words

“We saw a genuine problem. Professional firms, accountants, lawyers, advisers, agents, are drowning in manual compliance work. They have the willingness to comply but lack access to the tools that make it simple. After a decade building for the world's largest institutions, we wanted to democratise enterprise-grade compliance. That is AML Buddy.”

How AML Buddy guides are written and reviewed

  • Every guide is checked against primary sources: legislation on legislation.gov.uk, HMRC and other supervisors' guidance, and GOV.UK.
  • Sources are listed on the page, and each guide shows the date it was last reviewed.
  • Guides explain the rules; they are not legal advice, and firms remain responsible for their own compliance decisions.
  • AML Buddy is not approved or endorsed by any regulator. We say so wherever it matters.
  • Spotted something out of date? Email hello@amlbuddy.com and we will review it.

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