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Advisory disclaimer

Black Sea is an independent financial-crime compliance advisory. We build, remediate and run the AML/CFT and sanctions programme that sits behind a regulated operator's licence. It does not provide legal services, and nothing here is legal advice. Lawyers file the application; we build the compliance that sits behind it.

Black Sea holds no licence and is not a regulated or authorised firm. Nothing on this site should be read as a claim that Black Sea is licensed, registered, authorised or supervised by any regulator in any market. Where we describe a regulator, a regime or a framework, we do so to explain the obligation an operator carries, not to assert any status of our own.

Any partnership referenced on this site is a cooperation between independent firms. A partner holding a licence does not extend that licence to Black Sea, and Black Sea makes no claim to a partner's authorisation.

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