No flagship. Every cell fully served.
Most advisers have a flagship. One market where they know the regulator by name, one sector where they have done the work ten times, and a long tail of everything else they will attempt if asked. The tail is where programmes fail.
We are built the other way. No single market dominates our practice and no single sector is our shop window. The Gulf is not the headline and crypto is not the specialism. Each of the nineteen markets below is fully served. Each of the nine sectors below is fully served. A firm in Uzbekistan gets the same senior attention as a firm in the UAE, and a precious-metals dealer gets the same rigour as a bank.
That is a deliberate design choice, and it is a costly one. It means we carry current regulatory knowledge across every framework we name, not a favourite few. We do it because financial crime does not respect a flagship. Money leaves a well-covered market for a thin one. If our coverage were uneven, we would be selling clients the thin edge and calling it a map.
No flagship. If a market is on this page, it is fully served.
The nine sectors
Regulated activity, not industry label, drives the obligation. A business becomes our concern the moment it holds customer value, moves it, or stands between a customer and a regulated market. The nine sectors below map the obligated population we serve. Each links to a dedicated page setting out the specific AML/CFT and sanctions exposure, the typical control gaps, and how we build the programme behind the licence.
The nineteen markets
Nineteen jurisdictions across the Gulf, the Levant, Africa, Central Asia and the Caucasus, plus Turkey and Pakistan. We group them by region for navigation only. Each market page sets out the current supervisory framework, the registration or licensing regime that governs the obligated sector, and the specific programme we build to sit behind it. We state a regulatory fact only where it is grounded. Where a specific date, threshold or statute would strengthen the page but cannot be verified, the market page says so plainly rather than guessing.
The market x sector matrix
Coverage is not a list of markets and a separate list of sectors. It is the grid where the two meet. A VASP in Kazakhstan and a VASP in Bahrain sit in the same sector column but obey different supervisors, and the programme we build reflects both facts. This is how you get to the exact page for your situation.
What sits behind every cell
Whichever cell you land on, the work behind it is drawn from the same five service lines. The market decides the regulator. The sector decides the risk. These five decide what we actually do. They carry equal weight: we are not a licensing shop that also audits, or an audit shop that also runs an MLRO desk. We do all five to the same standard, in all nineteen markets, across all nine sectors.
The same principle holds in every cell of the grid. We sit on the operator's side of the table. We sell no software and take no commission on any tool, licence or vendor. We are the party a regulated firm brings in to build the thing that will be inspected, and the party that can stand behind it when it is. Lawyers file the application. We build the compliance that has to survive after the licence is granted.
That independence is what lets the coverage stay even. We have no incentive to steer a client in Qatar toward the same platform as a client in Ghana, because we are not selling a platform. We have no flagship market to protect and no flagship product to sell. There is only the programme, built to fit the market and the sector it has to satisfy.
The licence is the easy part. We build what sits behind it.
Fresh proof, not case studies. Across every cell of the grid the proof is the same and it is live: the current briefing series covering these markets and sectors, the signed partnership with licensed local partners, and independent Kazakh press pickups. Dated, checkable, no invented client cases.
Find your cell. We build the rest.
Tell us the market and the regulated activity. We will point you to the exact combination page, or, if you would rather skip the map, send us the licence or the finding and we will come back with a fixed-scope, costed plan within 48 hours. No hourly billing. No obligation to proceed.