BANKING & PAYMENTS · PAYMENTS & E-MONEY
Money Services Business
Framework
Remittance and foreign exchange businesses live or die on correspondent access, and correspondent access is granted on the strength of financial crime controls rather than volume. We build the institution to be bankable — licensing and agent or digital distribution, corridor and currency operations, sanctions and transaction monitoring, treasury and settlement, and audit-ready reporting.
THE SPECIFICATION
Architecture & Audience
Remittance is a low-margin, high-volume business serving corridors that banks have largely abandoned. The licence is comparatively easy to obtain and the banking relationship is comparatively hard to keep: correspondent banks treat this sector as high risk, and an MSB whose compliance function cannot satisfy a bank will lose access regardless of what its regulator thinks.
Operators with genuine corridor knowledge and distribution; diaspora-facing businesses formalizing informal flow; and FX brokers extending into regulated remittance.
What We Deliver
A complete architecture, designed, launched, and managed
We define the corridors the MSB will serve, the currencies it will handle, and the licence categories required in each jurisdiction before any application is filed. Corridor and scope decisions shape every subsequent compliance and infrastructure choice.
We assess banking appetite in the target corridors before the MSB applies for its licence. An MSB without banking access has a licence it cannot use; we identify which banks will provide accounts and on what terms before the business is committed to a regulatory path.
We establish and negotiate the banking and settlement relationships that give the MSB access to the accounts and payment rails it needs to move funds across its corridors. Relationships are maintained as an ongoing function, not treated as a one-time launch step.
We select and implement the remittance and foreign exchange platform that handles the transaction volume, currency pairs, and agent or digital distribution model the MSB operates. Platform selection is benchmarked for regulatory reporting capability and resilience under corridor stress.
We design the agent onboarding process and ongoing oversight framework for MSBs operating through an agent network. Agent due diligence, training, monitoring, and termination standards are documented and enforced, because the MSB is liable for its agents.
We implement the financial crime and sanctions screening infrastructure that satisfies correspondent banks and regulators in the corridors the MSB serves. Controls are calibrated to the corridor risk profile, not applied at a generic standard that satisfies neither the bank nor the regulator.
We build the customer onboarding process and identity verification infrastructure that meets the applicable customer due diligence requirements in each corridor. The process is designed to satisfy the regulator and to convert at a rate the business model can sustain.
We manage the regulatory approval process for the MSB’s principals and key personnel in each jurisdiction where approval is required. Submissions are prepared with the documentation that demonstrates the business is run by fit and proper persons.
We build the reporting infrastructure that delivers the regulatory submissions, transaction reports, and suspicious activity reports required in each jurisdiction the MSB operates. Reporting is produced from system data and reconciled before any submission is filed.
What We Deliver
A complete architecture, designed, launched, and managed
We define the corridors the MSB will serve, the currencies it will handle, and the licence categories required in each jurisdiction before any application is filed. Corridor and scope decisions shape every subsequent compliance and infrastructure choice.
We assess banking appetite in the target corridors before the MSB applies for its licence. An MSB without banking access has a licence it cannot use; we identify which banks will provide accounts and on what terms before the business is committed to a regulatory path.
We establish and negotiate the banking and settlement relationships that give the MSB access to the accounts and payment rails it needs to move funds across its corridors. Relationships are maintained as an ongoing function, not treated as a one-time launch step.
We select and implement the remittance and foreign exchange platform that handles the transaction volume, currency pairs, and agent or digital distribution model the MSB operates. Platform selection is benchmarked for regulatory reporting capability and resilience under corridor stress.
We design the agent onboarding process and ongoing oversight framework for MSBs operating through an agent network. Agent due diligence, training, monitoring, and termination standards are documented and enforced, because the MSB is liable for its agents.
We implement the financial crime and sanctions screening infrastructure that satisfies correspondent banks and regulators in the corridors the MSB serves. Controls are calibrated to the corridor risk profile, not applied at a generic standard that satisfies neither the bank nor the regulator.
We build the customer onboarding process and identity verification infrastructure that meets the applicable customer due diligence requirements in each corridor. The process is designed to satisfy the regulator and to convert at a rate the business model can sustain.
We manage the regulatory approval process for the MSB’s principals and key personnel in each jurisdiction where approval is required. Submissions are prepared with the documentation that demonstrates the business is run by fit and proper persons.
We build the reporting infrastructure that delivers the regulatory submissions, transaction reports, and suspicious activity reports required in each jurisdiction the MSB operates. Reporting is produced from system data and reconciled before any submission is filed.
Infrastructure Selection
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