Regulatory counsel for crypto, payments and banking.
Solvere is a specialist financial-services regulatory practice for firms operating at the frontier of digital assets and payments.
The UK's regulatory perimeter is being redrawn around the businesses you run.
Cryptoasset firms face a move from MLR registration to full FCA authorisation. Payments and e-money firms face a rebuilt safeguarding regime. The cost of getting this wrong is your permissions, your client money, and your ability to trade.
Solvere exists for exactly these firms: founders, general counsel and compliance teams who need senior, specialist regulatory advice delivered quickly and commercially.
The dates that decide your permissions.
Two regimes are reshaping the sector at once. Firms that start their perimeter analysis and FCA engagement now are the ones that come through cleanly.
Five areas, one regulatory lens.
Digital Assets
Authorisation, perimeter analysis and structuring for cryptoasset firms preparing for the new FSMA regime.
Explore 02 — PaymentsPayments
Safeguarding, authorisation and ongoing compliance for payment institutions and e-money firms.
Explore 03 — BankingBanking
Lending, payment-systems and financial-structuring work for regulated and non-regulated participants.
Explore 04 — RegulatoryRegulatory
FCA perimeter, permissions, financial promotions and conduct advice across financial services.
Explore 05 — CorporateCorporate
Company formation, fundraising, shareholder arrangements and restructuring for regulated businesses.
ExploreNot sure where you sit?
If you need to know whether you should be operating in our sectors, that is the first question we answer.
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Senior, specialist, and on the record.
Solvere is led by Blake O'Donnell — dual-qualified in England & Wales and Ireland, and author of the leading Bloomsbury text on UK crypto law.
His book is held in the law libraries of Oxford, Harvard, Yale and Berkeley; a second text, on the law of digital payments, is in progress. He has spoken on the future of money — payment stablecoins, real-world-asset tokenisation and CBDCs — to industry audiences.
More about BlakeThe regulatory clock is running.
Free, practical briefings on the changes that affect your permissions — written for the people who have to implement them, not the firms that only write about them.
The FSMA authorisation gateway, the saving provision, and the move from MLR registration to full authorisation.
The CASS 15 safeguarding regime — reconciliations, reporting, resolution packs and the annual audit.
Perimeter, permissions and prudential changes affecting EMIs, banks and the firms that sit around them.
Facing an authorisation deadline, a safeguarding overhaul, or a perimeter question?
Start with a short, no-obligation scoping call.
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