Meet the Team

An experienced, commercially minded risk and regulatory compliance professional with over 12 years of expertise in financial services, payments, and digital currencies.

Highly skilled in licensing, setup, and operational management of Fiat, Crypto and Digital Payment Platforms and Cryptocurrency exchanges on the Isle of Man, with a passion for implementing innovative, technology-focused control and management systems.​

Grant has been providing risk and compliance consultancy services for over 5 years, providing directorship and Head of Compliance services, advising several businesses on new licence application, and been part of multiple remediation projects.

Grant acts as Director and advisor to a number of clients and holds the International Diploma in GRC and is a Fellow of the International Compliance Association.

Grant Cairney
Founder and Lead Consultant

Skills and competencies

• Data Protection and GDPR

• Board experience and Corporate Governance

• Mentoring and training

• Business turnaround and remediation

• Financial Service licence applications

• Designated Business registrations

• Payments (Fiat and Cryptocurrency)

• Regulatory Compliance

• Financial Crime Prevention

• AML/CFT/CPF

• Financial Crime & Enterprise Risk

• Whistleblower management

Achievements and experience

• Obtained the Island's first e-money (Class 8 (4)) licence is 2021.

• Successful submission and setup of CVC class Designated Businesses (DNFBPs).

• Extensive post-fraud (internal) investigations experience followed by a control and oversight improvement programme.

• Experience in multiple licence surrenders and licenceholder wind-down projects.

• Business turnaround and remediation project for Island's largest fiduciary provider.

• Interim HOC and MLRO for a number of licenceholders.

• GDPR implementation project for a large international group spanning 6 jurisdictions and covering 30k data subjects.

• Multiple Class 8 startups.