Senior regulatory and compliance advisory for fintech, digital asset, and cryptoasset businesses. We build the frameworks regulators expect to find, and audit with the same rigour they apply.
Regulatory and compliance advisory for fintech, digital asset and cryptoasset businesses. FCA authorisation, MiCA CASP licensing, AML/KYC frameworks and ongoing compliance across the UK and EU.
Our work spans the full compliance lifecycle, authorisation applications, AML and KYC programme builds, compliance audit and assurance, and CPD-aligned training, delivered by practitioners who have built these frameworks inside regulated firms.
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Most applications fail slowly. Not through rejection, but through months of clarification requests that drain management time and delay revenue.
We take a different view. An application should be built to be approved, not submitted to be negotiated. That means a regulatory business plan the case officer can follow, governance and SMCR mapping that reflects how the firm actually runs, and financial evidence that anticipates scrutiny rather than reacting to it.
You get one chance at a first impression with the FCA. We make it count.
Every digital-asset firm has an AML framework. The question is whether it works when a transaction actually goes wrong.
We build risk-based AML and KYC frameworks designed for how crypto businesses operate in practice: a business-wide risk assessment grounded in your actual flows, a customer risk model that scales, on-chain analytics wired into the decision-making rather than bolted on, and Travel Rule and fraud controls that hold up under volume. Where the MLRO function needs depth, we provide it.
The test we apply is simple. Could your team run this framework on a bad day, not just show it on a good one?
A compliance framework that has never been tested is a framework you know nothing about.
We conduct independent audits, gap analyses, and risk modelling for regulated and pre-application firms, and we test against the questions supervisors actually ask, not the ones the manual anticipates. What comes back is a remediation plan written once, in language both the board and the regulator can act on, because a finding that needs translating is a finding that gets lost.
You should learn where the gaps are early on.
Regulatory problems rarely respect the boundary between legal and compliance. Most advisers do.
When a matter needs both, we run them as one workstream: scoping the regulatory perimeter, then coordinating the legal instruments around it, corporate structure, terms, token documentation, and opinions. The result is an application, a contract, and a policy stack that tell the same story in every jurisdiction you operate in.
Regulators notice inconsistency before they notice anything else. We make sure there is none to find.
All engagements begin with a referral or direct introduction.
We work on broad or specific matters. Spanning from authorisation applications, AML builds, audit engagements, training programmes, with clear deliverables.
Every engagement is handled at senior level from start to finish. If we take your matter, you have our full attention.
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