02What we are
Black Sea is an independent financial-crime compliance advisory. The programme behind the licence must survive line-by-line regulator review.
Build
The programme behind the licence.
Remediate
The programme after the finding.
Run
The programme as a live function.
03Principles
Six principles, not slogans. Each one changes what we can and cannot do.
P/01
Independent
No parent, platform or affiliate.
P/02
Operator-side
Your side of the table, not theirs.
P/03
Senior-only
No learning on your file.
P/04
Conflict-free
No software, commissions or success fees.
P/05
Fixed scope, fixed fee
We cost the scope and hold it. No meter.
P/06
Evidence-led
Only what we can show.
04The team
A senior practice of credentialed AML and financial-crime professionals, not a rotating analyst bench.
A programme is only as good as the person who has run one. We have sat where the MLRO sits and answered the regulator.
CAMSICAFront-line KYC / CDDFIUSanctions & export control
05Conduct
Financial-crime work runs on information that should never leave the room. We engage NDA-first and state the uncomfortable finding plainly.
/NDA-first: confidentiality before scope.
/Named in confidence: never another operator's reference.
/Plain findings: the uncomfortable answer, plainly.
/Evidence-led: no gap dressed as a strength.
06Proof
PartnershipLocal partnersLicensed local law-firm and compliance partners, paired with our operator-side build.Partners →
Published workA standing seriesOpen, regular analysis on frontier and Gulf financial-crime regulation.Insights →
CredentialsCAMS / ICACredentialed practitioners with front-line KYC and financial-intelligence experience.
Live, dated evidence, not client stories. We never publish an operator's programme as our reference.
07The line
What we refuse says what we are.
No.No software. No product, no seats.
No.No commissions. No kickbacks or success fees.
No.No two sides. Never for a regulator, licensor or vendor in your market.
No.No junior swap. Scoped and run by the same senior.
No.No invented facts. Only a position we can source.
Say no when it fits. We do.
The licence is the easy part. We build what sits behind it.
NDA-first scoping. Fixed-scope plan within 48 hours. No meter, no obligation.