Stacey Dragicevich is the founder of Settliance™ — the only AML/CTF compliance service built exclusively for licensed settlement agents in Western Australia.
I have always been two people. One who loves creativity, problem solving, and generating ideas. The other a serious analytical person who loves spreadsheets and pages of information. I could never choose between the two, always wanting to do both. A recent career aptitude test settled it: 98% Creative. 97% Analytical. Apparently I was never going to pick a lane.
But here is what I have always known to be true: I have always wanted to help women in business. It took me twenty years to say that clearly.
Settlement agents in WA are overwhelmingly women. Running their own practices. Managing their own compliance. Being the licensee, the administrator, the communications officer, and the person settling three properties today — sometimes a lot more than three — all at once. Some are leading small teams, pulled in just as many directions.
They were being handed generic national compliance tools. So I built the thing that was missing.
Every Settliance™ program is built personally by me. When at capacity, I waitlist rather than lower the standard. You are not a ticket number or a login. You are a person with a deadline, and I do the compliance work so you can focus on settlements.
Every other compliance solution in this space was built for someone else and adapted for settlement agents. National platforms designed for banks. Generic AML tools designed for real estate. Law firm templates designed for corporates.
Settliance™ was built for the WA settlement agent — the sole operator running everything herself, or the principal of a small team who is still the licensee, the compliance officer, the admin, and the person settling three properties today. AML compliance lands on top of all of it.
She is not avoiding compliance. She is managing a Tuesday.
Settliance™ exists because she deserves a compliance partner who understands her practice, speaks her language, and does the work for her.
With over 20 years in financial services compliance, Stacey brings Responsible Manager experience under an Australian Credit Licence, MFAA membership, and deep knowledge of the regulatory frameworks that now apply to WA settlement agents under Tranche 2 reform.
Her AML/CTF foundations were built and tested in practice — conducting annual client base risk reviews, managing KYC and ongoing customer due diligence obligations, monitoring FATF country risk, reviewing politically exposed persons, and making real escalation decisions including suspicious matter reporting during her banking career. She has delivered AML/CTF awareness training to brokers and chaired compliance meetings with AML agenda items as the nominated responsible person under the licence.
Her formal AML/CTF training spans AUSTRAC’s complete 10-module Financial Crime series — covering financial crime fundamentals, ML/TF risk assessments, AML/CTF program design, customer identification and monitoring, applicable customer identification procedures, enhanced customer due diligence, beneficial owners and PEPs, suspicious matter reporting, and threshold transaction reporting — alongside Kaplan’s AML and CTF (Credit) module and AUSTRAC’s self-directed education hub.
Stacey is currently completing a Bachelor of Business (Business Law and Management) at Edith Cowan University, with degree completion expected in Semester 2, 2026. Her ongoing CPD program includes continued policy writing and governance training, with exploration of GRC Institute and Governance Institute of Australia credentials — building a post-degree capability framework aligned to compliance leadership, not just compliance practice.

When you work with Settliance™, you work with Stacey. Not a team. Not a help desk. Not a chatbot. One named specialist who knows your practice, built your program, and picks up the phone when you call.