Primary focus
Ghana
Warm relationship development, market intelligence, and qualified US-readiness opportunities.
Africa to United States
Africa to the United States.
We prepare African fintech and payment companies for what US banks, processors, and regulators will require. Not what they say they require. What they ask in the review.
Where we start
Validation markets
Nigeria and Kenya
Evidence-led testing for urgency, budget, buyer access, and implementation capacity.
Opportunity-led
Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa, Namibia, Senegal, and Côte d'Ivoire
Pursued when there is a credible buyer, referral path, or near-term US-market trigger.
The engagement
US Entry Readiness. 60 days. Fixed scope.
One engagement, built around the questions US counterparties actually ask: how funds move, who participates, how decisions are governed, and whether the program can be implemented. Six deliverables, in sixty days.
01
Flow of Funds Map
How money actually moves through your business. Entities, counterparties, currencies, corridors, and every point where a US touchpoint creates a US obligation.
02
US Counterparty Question Set
What a US bank, processor, or investor will ask you, specific to your model, with your current answer to each one written down next to it.
03
Entity and Licensing Assessment
Which US registrations, state licenses, or partner structures your model actually triggers, and which ones it does not.
04
US Program Build Plan
The AML, sanctions, onboarding, monitoring, and governance components you need, scoped and sequenced to your actual volume.
05
Partner-Facing Readiness Pack
The documentation set a US counterparty expects to receive, prepared to the standard they review it at.
06
Executive Briefing
A working session with founders and leadership, held in the working language of your team.
A good fit has urgency and implementation capacity.
The best starting point is a founder, CEO, general counsel, compliance leader, or risk leader facing a real US-triggered decision: bank diligence, payment access, licensing strategy, investor review, or a compliance program that has not kept pace with the business.
Where we are not the right firm.
We work on the facts of the business and the flow of funds. That rules out a small number of engagements, and it is better to know which before anyone spends money.
Not a fit when:
- The prospect wants its external description to differ from actual operations.
- The prospect wants to avoid scrutiny, stay below a threshold, or work around a requirement.
- The prospect will not identify the entities, intermediaries, and counterparties in the flow of funds.
- The prospect conditions engagement on a bank, license, timing, or regulatory outcome guarantee.
Start with the facts of the business and the flow of funds.
We do not guarantee bank access, licensing outcomes, or regulatory decisions. We help build and document the compliance posture those third parties evaluate.
Schedule a readiness discussion