Module 125 minutes
The Licensing Landscape
Singapore, EU, UK, Hong Kong and UAE compared.
The question: Which regime applies to us, and what does each one actually ask for?
You keep: Regime map
Specialist programmeDigital Asset Compliance and Licensing
Get a licence. Keep it. Show the evidence. A practitioner programme taught from licensing work with 46 organisations.
- 6 modules
- About 2 hours 40 minutes
- 6 artefacts you keep
- 30-day plan
Who it is for
For the people who sign the licence application.
Compliance officers, MLROs, founders and risk leads at exchanges, custodians, tokenisation platforms and banks entering digital assets.
The problem
Licensing regimes such as MAS in Singapore and MiCA in the EU ask for evidence that controls work, not policy documents. Most teams learn this the hard way: through a rejected or delayed application.
You leave with a readiness gap assessment for your own firm.
Outcomes
By the end, you can
- Map your activities and customer locations to the regimes that apply, and choose the first licence to pursue.
- Trace every claim in an application to a document, an owner and proof that the control works.
- Design seeded, sample and threshold tests that show financial crime controls catch what they should.
- Find single points of failure in custody, keys and reconciliation, and design them out.
- Pre-build a regulator question bank with one owner and one version for every answer.
- Run a post-licence calendar that keeps reporting, audit, training and remediation evidence current.
Outline
Six modules. Each ends with something you keep.
Every module answers one question, then you apply it in a timed exercise on a fictional case and complete the artefact before you move on.
Module 230 minutes
Building the Application
Business plan, risk assessment, governance and fit and proper.
The question: What does a regulator need to see before it believes your plan?
You keep: Application evidence map
Module 330 minutes
AML/CFT for Digital Assets
Travel rule, wallet screening and transaction monitoring.
The question: How do you show a regulator that suspicious activity would be caught?
You keep: Travel rule and screening test log
Module 425 minutes
Custody, Safeguarding and Technology Risk
Key management, segregation and resilience.
The question: If the firm is hacked or fails tomorrow, whose assets are safe, and how do you prove it?
You keep: Custody control walk-through
Module 525 minutes
Regulator Engagement
Questions to expect and how to evidence answers.
The question: How do you handle the first forty questions without losing three months?
You keep: Regulator question bank
Module 625 minutes
Post-Licence Obligations
Ongoing reporting, audits and remediation.
The question: The licence is granted. What keeps it?
You keep: Post-licence calendar and board gap brief
CapstoneThen a 30-day plan
Apply it to your own organisation
A licensing readiness gap assessment completed against your own firm.
- Week 1. Complete the gap assessment for one jurisdiction. Name an owner for each gap.
- Week 2. Draft the business risk assessment and the travel rule procedure with test evidence.
- Week 3. Run a custody control walk-through and write the regulator question bank.
- Week 4. Build the post-licence calendar and brief the board on the gaps and dates.
What you produce
Six artefacts, one binder.
A working binder you can show your board, and later a regulator.
- Module 1Regime map
- Module 2Application evidence map
- Module 3Travel rule and screening test log
- Module 4Custody control walk-through
- Module 5Regulator question bank
- Module 6Post-licence calendar and board gap brief
Capstone: A licensing readiness gap assessment completed against your own firm.