Offerings
Four client groups shape our work. For each of them we have laid out the typical starting point, the matching services and clearly described packages. The exact fit is defined in the free initial consultation that starts every mandate.
Established institutions, in particular category 3 banks, face growing supervisory expectations on risk management and governance: risk appetite and risk reporting are expected to be decision-oriented, ICT and cyber risks belong in the risk register, and audit findings must be closed on time and verifiably. Internal capacity for this is often scarce, and external support rarely brings real audit routine.
We bring both: 18 years of enterprise risk management in global banks, the language of audit firm and FINMA, and the ability to document measures in a way that holds up before board and regulator.
Building a company in Switzerland or Liechtenstein from abroad, possibly with a holding structure, requires three things: a sound structure, credible local substance, and governance that convinces banks, authorities and business partners. The questions are rarely purely legal; they concern organisation, responsibilities and lived practice.
We accompany the build-up from structuring through incorporation to a functioning organisation, and on request serve as a governing body ourselves. Tax and legal specialist questions are solved together with specialised law firms from our ecosystem, coordinated from a single source.
From the founding team ahead of licensing to the licensed provider in daily operations: digital asset firms need regulatory clarity, an audit-proof AML organisation and tools that match the licence. Much of this does not justify a full-time internal role, yet has to be staffed at senior level.
Our offering is built exactly for that: licensing and MiCAR transition from first-hand build-up experience, AML outsourcing and MLRO servicing from ongoing practice under FMA supervision, RegTech selection and calibration from operational use, and a network that opens doors to banks, market makers and law firms.
Large advisory and audit firms encounter digital asset mandates that demand operational practice: how do you actually calibrate transaction monitoring, what does the FMA expect in the authorisation process, what does lived MLRO practice look like? That experience is hard to keep on staff when it is needed only selectively.
We work as a sub-contractor under your engagement lead: with a senior profile that holds up before your clients’ executive management and board, with clear confidentiality and independence rules, and without visibility claims of our own within the mandate.
Service packages
We have described four recurring mandate types as packages. They show scope and outcome; the exact fit is defined in the initial consultation.
Partner offering
Aragon eXeed is Scorechain’s Regulatory & Operational Implementation Partner for the DACH region. For companies introducing or already using Scorechain, four modules bundle the path from licence to audit-proof operations.
Licensing strategy for Switzerland (FINMA, SRO/VQF, FinTech licence), Liechtenstein (FMA, MiCAR) and Austria (FMA). Company formation, business plan review from a supervisory perspective, governance design and substance planning, drafting of the application documents and representation towards the authority, connection to specialised law firms.
AML/KYC/CTF policies and directives, internal control system and three lines of defence, risk framework, onboarding with KYC, CDD and EDD, PEP and sanctions screening, alert and escalation logic in transaction monitoring, regulatory and committee reporting, audit preparation and remediation.
Translating the AML policy into parameters: rules, thresholds and alerts. Cross-checking the configuration against licence conditions and supervisory expectations, integration into onboarding and monitoring workflows, audit trail and evidence standards, and ongoing recalibration as products, risks and regulation evolve.
Introductions to crypto-friendly banks including account opening, to market makers and OTC desks, to RegTech providers for KYT, Travel Rule and identity verification, and to law firms in Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Austria. On request, referral of compliance staff as well as board functions and substance.
Typical paths: new ventures move through modules 1 to 3. Licensed providers switching tools start at module 2. Scaling companies combine modules 3 and 4. Banks building a digital asset offering combine modules 1 and 4.
Further RegTech ecosystem: beyond the Scorechain partnership, Aragon eXeed works vendor-independently and brings operational experience with additional analytics and compliance providers, including 21Analytics, Sumsub, ComplyAdvantage and Chainalysis. Tool selection follows business model and licence conditions alone.
30 minutes, free of charge, by phone or video. You receive a concrete first assessment; afterwards both sides decide whether working together makes sense.
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