A practice built for one sector

Lucent Compliance is an advisory practice that helps crypto businesses meet their anti-money-laundering obligations. We work with firms across the sector, from established exchanges and custodians to ventures still being set up, on the questions that arise when AML rules written largely for traditional finance are applied to crypto. The work is practical: understanding what is expected, putting controls in place that hold up, and responding clearly when those controls are tested.

We cover the AML side of the picture, including risk assessments, policies and procedures, customer and enhanced due diligence, registration readiness, and correspondence with banks, auditors and regulators. We deliberately don't hold ourselves out as a law firm or as a substitute for formal legal advice, and we say so when a question genuinely needs a lawyer, an auditor or the regulator itself. Being clear about the edges of what we do is part of doing it well.

The focus is specialist by choice. Crypto AML is moving quickly, and the gap between what a rule says and how it is supervised in practice is often where firms get caught out. By working only in this sector, we can keep up with that gap and give advice that reflects how the rules are actually being applied: measured, current and grounded in the realities of the businesses we work with.