Licensing, markets, and conduct

Regulatory & Compliance

Advice on U.S. and European crypto rules, money-transmission licenses, and anti-money-laundering programs.

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A moving rulebook

The United States still does not have one statute that settles who regulates crypto. The SEC, the CFTC, bank regulators, and the states are writing the practical rules for issuing, trading, and holding assets. In Europe, the MiCA rulebook is in force. The UK, Singapore, and Dubai each run their own licensing systems.

We help you name the activity you are actually doing — issuing a token, arranging trades, holding assets for customers, lending, staking, or just publishing software — and which permission that activity needs. The answer is often narrower than the first business plan, and sometimes broader.

Programs that survive an exam

A policy manual that nobody follows is not a compliance program. We design controls around the real product: who can list an asset, how wallets are screened, when a transfer is stopped, and how that decision is written down.

When a regulator writes, we handle the response. That means deciding what they asked for, gathering the facts, and stopping the business team from telling a second, different story by email.

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