Crypto Advisory Services & Assurance

Services

Eight service families. One operating partner.

CASA is structured as a single delivery platform across advisory, operations, assurance, academy, technology and outsourced control functions — so a client buying one capability inherits the discipline of all of them.

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01 / 07

Strategic & licensing advisory

From jurisdictional pathway selection to submission, RI preparation and post-licence supervisory dialogue — owned by a senior lead and a documented evidence pack.

  • Jurisdictional pathway selection across the UAE virtual asset perimeter.
  • Business plan, target operating model and governance design.
  • Application drafting and milestone management; Q&A handling.
  • Responsible Individual readiness — written submissions, interview rehearsal, gap remediation.
  • Application Readiness Sprint — fixed-fee pre-submission bundle: review, evidence pack, mock interviews and policy drafting.
  • Post-authorisation engagement: annual returns, supervisory letters, controlled-functions disclosures and breach reporting.
02 / 07

Compliance & regulatory build

The architecture and document estate behind a regulator-credible firm — designed with the operating model from day one, not retrofitted to an inspection finding.

  • Compliance programme design — three-lines-of-defence operating model, governance and risk assessment.
  • AML/CFT programme — sanctions, onboarding, transaction monitoring, investigations, Travel Rule operating model, recordkeeping.
  • Data protection and cybersecurity governance, aligned to UAE PDPL and free-zone equivalents.
  • Crisis and incident-response playbooks; remediation programme management.
  • Outsourcing governance: due diligence packs, SLAs, audit-rights regime, RACI library.
03 / 07

Managed services & KYC/KYB operations

A productised pod model: capacity sold by the FTE-month, with per-case unit pricing for the high-volume work — onboarding, monitoring, sanctions, remediation.

  • KYC and KYB onboarding pods — process design, EDD playbooks, four-eye QA, remediation queues.
  • Transaction monitoring review pods — L1 analysts and L2 investigators with documented sampling and SLA reporting; configured for batch and real-time controls.
  • Sanctions screening operations and adverse-media review with productised re-screening cycles.
  • Travel Rule operating model and ongoing operational support — counterparty due diligence, message-routing exceptions, breach reporting.
  • Lookback and case-remediation programmes; backlog clearance under supervisory scrutiny.
  • Productised SKUs — KYC Standard Verification, KYC Enhanced Due Diligence, KYB Corporate Onboarding, TM alert review, Case Remediation.
04 / 07

Internal audit & assurance

Co-sourced or fully outsourced internal audit, mock inspections, model validation and independent attestation — with deliverables suitable for board, regulator and counterparty distribution.

  • Co-sourced or fully outsourced internal audit (non-statutory).
  • Compliance monitoring testing and control validation.
  • Mock inspections and inspection-readiness assessments.
  • Independent Model Validation of AML, sanctions and TM models — documentation review, conceptual soundness, ongoing monitoring, outcomes analysis.
  • Compliance Framework Attestation — independent attestation of the client's framework against the relevant standard.
  • Risk-and-control self-assessment (RCSA) facilitation and challenge; board reporting packs and audit-committee facilitation.
05 / 07

CASA Academy

Structured training to produce the next generation of MLROs, CCOs, transaction-monitoring leads and onboarding analysts in the UAE virtual asset sector.

  • MLRO and CCO readiness programmes.
  • Transaction-monitoring analyst academy.
  • Sanctions and Travel Rule operations programme.
  • Inspection-readiness coaching for first-line and second-line teams.
  • Governance and leadership in compliance — executive education for boards and senior management.
  • Public cohorts and bespoke in-house corporate programmes.
07 / 07

RegTech, automation & model assurance

The technology-enabled service line institutional clients now expect, delivered as advisory: selection, integration, tuning and validation. We do not build a competing platform.

  • RegTech selection and integration — vendor evaluation, RFP support, integration architecture across AML, KYC, TM, sanctions, blockchain analytics and fraud platforms.
  • AML model tuning and false-positive reduction — rule-set rationalisation, threshold optimisation, A/B testing.
  • Perpetual KYC enablement — risk-trigger framework design, customer-event re-screening pipelines, operating-model migration from periodic refresh.
  • Real-time payments TM design — control architecture for streaming and instant-payments environments.
  • Blockchain analytics integration and tuning, including risk-scoring calibration and exposure thresholds.
  • Vendor partner panel — introduction, integration and shared-services revenue from selected RegTech partners.
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Outsourced control functions

Named, fit-and-proper-vetted individuals with deputy cover and an oversight QA layer — across the full set of regulator-facing roles.

  • Outsourced MLRO and Deputy MLRO.
  • Outsourced Compliance Officer and Chief Compliance Officer.
  • Outsourced Data Protection Officer (UAE PDPL and free-zone equivalents).
  • Outsourced Risk Officer for free-zone and small-firm clients without an in-house function.
  • Outsourced Finance Officer — financial controllership support, regulatory reporting, capital monitoring.
  • Senior Executive Officer bench for free-zone interim placements (subject to applicable regulator approval).
  • Government and stakeholder relations support; banking and payment-rail enablement.

How we engage

Choose the engagement model that fits the work.

We price below the global professional-services tier, justified by named-individual continuity, productised methodology and integrated delivery across advisory, operations and assurance.

  • Fixed-fee projects
    Licensing programmes, Application Readiness Sprints, Compliance Framework Attestations, Model Validation.
  • Monthly retainers
    Compliance advisory, outsourced control functions, ongoing supervisory engagement.
  • Per-FTE-month pods
    Onboarding, transaction monitoring and sanctions capacity sold by the month with SLA-linked terms.
  • Per-case unit pricing
    KYC Standard, KYC EDD, KYB Corporate Onboarding, TM alert review, Case Remediation.

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