Digital-asset advisory
The finance function for digital-asset businesses.
Accounting, tax, regulatory and treasury — one firm, across the jurisdictions that decide whether you can trade. Most advisers do the books or the licence. Very few do both, and almost none do them across borders at the size you actually are.
What is coming
Dated obligations, not vague risk.
Regulation arrives on specific days. These are the ones that decide whether a digital-asset business keeps its market access — each one links to the instrument it comes from.
| Date | Jurisdiction | Event | Who it binds | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK | FCA authorisation gateway opens | Exchanges · VASPs · overseas firms serving UK customers | Action required | |
| EU | DAC8 self-certification for pre-existing users — outer limit; national transposition varies | CASPs with pre-existing users | Action required | |
| US | GENIUS Act takes effect — earlier of this date or 120 days after final rules, which are still proposals | Stablecoin issuers | Action required | |
| UAE | Federal CMA re-licensing grace period ends | Licensed virtual-asset firms | Action required | |
| UK | FCA authorisation gateway closes | Anyone not yet through the gateway | Action required | |
| UK | First CARF reports to HMRC (window opens 1 Jan), covering calendar 2026 | Reporting cryptoasset service providers | Monitor |
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What we do
Everything a digital-asset business needs from finance.
One accountable relationship across the whole surface. A client might want only bookkeeping; another wants an entire finance function stood up. Both are the same firm.
01
Accounting & bookkeeping
A ledger that reconciles to the chain, closes on time, and survives an auditor who has never seen a wallet before.
02
Tax
Corporate compliance, cross-border structure, and the reporting regimes that arrived while everyone was watching the market.
03
Regulatory & licensing
Which regime binds you, which member state to authorise in, and then the application itself.
04
Audit & assurance
Managed end to end — readiness, evidence, controls and the auditor relationship.
05
Treasury & operations
Policy, custody architecture, counterparty risk and a runway number you can defend to a board.
06
Fractional CFO
A finance function that reports to a board, a regulator and a token holder community at the same time.
07
Structuring & foundations
Entity and group design that survives contact with a regulator, a tax authority and an exchange listing.
08
Valuation & transactions
Defensible numbers for locked tokens, illiquid positions, fund NAV and the deal in front of you.
09
Forensics & disputes
Tracing, recovery, expert evidence and the reports that unlock a bank account.
10
People & token compensation
Paying a distributed team in stablecoins without creating an employment-tax problem in six countries.
Where we advise
The jurisdictions that decide whether you can operate.
Coverage depth is published, not implied. Tier 1 is monitored weekly and is where we are physically present; everything else is tracked or held as reference, and every page says which.
| Jurisdiction | Regime | Regulator | What matters now | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland | MiCA | Central Bank of Ireland | CASP authorisation passports to all 27 EU/EEA states | TIER 1 |
| United Kingdom | Cryptoasset regime | FCA | Authorisation gateway open 30 Sep 2026 – 28 Feb 2027 | TIER 1 |
| United Arab Emirates | VARA · ADGM · CMA | Four regulators | Federal re-licensing closes 27 Feb 2027 | TIER 1 |
| Japan | PSA → FIEA | JFSA · JVCEA | Reclassification lands FY2027; flat 20% rate from 2028 | TIER 1 |
| Luxembourg | MiCA | CSSF | A principal EU authorisation hub | TIER 2 |
| United States | GENIUS Act · state MTL | OCC · FinCEN · states | Stablecoin regime effective 18 Jan 2027 | TIER 2 |
Tell us what you are holding, and where.
We will tell you what applies to you, what is already late, and what it takes to fix. In Dubai, Dublin, London or Tokyo, in person if you prefer.