We design and implement BSA-compliant AML programs from the ground up, or rebuild programs that no longer fit the firm's scale, jurisdictional footprint, or risk profile.

The programs we build are designed to hold up under examination because they are built by people who have sat through examinations.

We advise on transaction monitoring system selection, rule design, alert tuning, and false-positive reduction. We work with the major vendor platforms and we know which tools fit which business profiles.

We help compliance teams design transaction monitoring that catches what regulators expect to be caught, without burying the team in noise.

We design risk-based customer due diligence frameworks that pass examination scrutiny and operate at scale.

This includes onboarding standards, ongoing monitoring, enhanced due diligence triggers, and PEP and adverse media screening.

We design the frameworks; vendors implement them. The difference matters when a regulator asks why a particular onboarding decision was made.

We design and implement OFAC sanctions screening, wallet screening, and ongoing monitoring infrastructure aligned with current enforcement priorities.

This includes SDN screening, geographic restriction logic, and on-chain risk monitoring through integration with blockchain analytics platforms.

We support clients through supervisory engagement, information requests, and SAR program design.

Our team includes former federal investigators and enforcement attorneys who have managed these relationships from inside government as well as inside in-house counsel functions.

When something goes wrong, we are the team that has handled it before from both sides of the table.

We scope the licensing path for your business, identify the most efficient sequence across jurisdictions, build the application materials, and manage regulator engagement through to authorization.

Our team has worked across BitLicense, U.S. state money transmitter licensing, MiCA CASP authorization, FCA registration, SFC VASP licensing, and MAS payment services licensing. We understand what each regulator actually wants to see, which application questions are technical and which are political, and how to position a business for the smoothest path through.

We design and implement AML, sanctions, and Travel Rule programs that meet BSA, MiCA, and FATF standards, and that work operationally inside a real business.

Our compliance build-outs are led by attorneys and former in-house operators with direct experience designing transaction monitoring, customer due diligence, suspicious activity reporting, and Travel Rule infrastructure inside firms like Coinbase. The programs we build hold up under examination because they were built by people who have sat through them.

For VASPs operating in more than one jurisdiction, we coordinate licensing, structuring, and compliance obligations into a single coherent strategy.

Multi-jurisdiction work is the default at Aethemis, not an upsell. We sequence applications efficiently, identify where passporting and reverse solicitation can be used to compress timelines, and make sure the structure in one market does not undermine the position in another.

We support clients through supervisory engagement, examinations, information requests, and enforcement matters.

Members of our team have managed these relationships from inside federal agencies, inside in-house counsel functions, and across the table as outside advisors. That perspective changes how we prepare clients for regulator interaction and how we respond when something goes wrong.