Helping crypto businesses get accounts opened quickly and with minimal hassle

Lucent Compliance is an AML advisory practice focused on helping crypto businesses open accounts with banks, exchanges, payment providers and other financial institutions. The work is practical: understanding what a given counterparty expects, presenting your business accurately, and responding clearly when applications are questioned or delayed.

We work with firms across the sector, from established exchanges and custodians to ventures still being set up. 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.

Onboarding rules for crypto businesses are moving quickly, and the gap between what a rule says and how it is applied by any given bank or provider is often where applications get stuck. By working only in this area, we can keep up with that gap and give advice that reflects how applications are actually being handled today.