Who we Are

Corporate Profile

Edifice Global Markets Limited (Edifice), established in 2016, is a Hong Kong-registered international trade advisory firm licensed as a Trust and Company Service Provider (TCSP) under the Designated Non-Financial Businesses and Professions (DNFBP) regulatory framework.

Edifice’s compliance team comprises seasoned Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing (AML-CTF) specialists with over 25 years of collective expertise in Counterparty Risk Management. Their deep industry knowledge ensures stringent AML protocols and proactively addresses risks inherent to financial transactions.

CRMS Onboarding: Efficient Framework

Adheres to globally recognized Customer Due Diligence (CDD) standards, with enhanced due diligence measures for transactions exceeding USD 15,000 / HKD 120,000.

Our mission is to combat money laundering, terrorist financing (ML/TF), and financial crime risks through rigorous adherence to customer due diligence (CDD) standards. We embed ethical governance and foster integrity to enable customers, partners, and stakeholders to grow sustainably.

Cultivating a culture of integrity remains critical to navigating today’s evolving business challenges.

Tenant-Centric Risk & Compliance Framework

Partners are designated as tenants. Tenant onboarding uses a secure platform where compliance professionals undergo risk assessment-directed AI-driven analytics to each tenancy counterparty and third-party onboarding process, enabling balanced and precise mitigation strategies.

We integrate regulatory compliance and financial crime prevention prequalification measures before any business relationship begins and ongoing monitoring during the relationship to ensure adherence to AML standards and proactive risk mitigation.

A. Partner-as-Tenant

  • Each partner is treated as a separate tenant.
  • Compliance professionals conduct risk assessments alongside AI-driven algorithms to evaluate partner and third-party data and ensure rigorous scrutiny and accountability in risk mitigation.

B. 2-in-1 product and service:
A unified workflow.

  • Combining CDD compliance (e.g., identity verification, regulatory alignment) and
  • Financial crime prevention (ML/TF/fraud detection).

Our compliance professionals leverage to streamline threat response while maintaining oversight of automated processes.

C. Synergy:

Prioritises secure, tech-driven processes guided by compliance expertise. Professionals oversee AI tools, validate algorithmic outputs, and ensure preemptive risk management, blending automation with human judgment for balanced decision-making.

D. Key Focus:

Compliance professionals are central to risk assessment, ensuring regulatory adherence and mitigating threats through a hybrid of technology and expert oversight.

Granular Data Controls: Restrict access by role/purpose, ensuring confidentiality and integrity during ongoing monitoring or regulatory amendments. 

  • Proactive Compliance: Align systems with global standards (e.g., FATF and local jurisdiction regulators) to ensure seamless audit readiness and regulatory agility.
  • Risk Mitigation: Reduces exposure to financial/reputational harm via early threat detection.
  • Integrity & Transparency: Strengthens partner relationships through ethical, data-driven governance.

Value Proposition: A scalable, secure framework that transforms compliance into strategic advantage while safeguarding multi-tenant ecosystems.

Our slogan is your shield: Safeguarding and empowering tenant businesses via CRMS 2-in-1.

Level 1 Integration

Our regulatory-driven, compliance-based, rules-based framework for anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorism financing (CTF). Our system analyses each tenant’s counterparty and third-party applicant data in real-time, leveraging legally mandated criteria to identify financial crime risks.

Enforcing structured regulatory protocols improves detection accuracy and risk oversight while building adaptive analytics capabilities to anticipate shifting regulatory requirements.

Our framework ensures rigorous alignment with AML/CTF mandates, embedding legal compliance into systematic, regulation-driven workflows.

During pre-qualification onboarding, the system evaluates real-time data from multiple sources, including for illustrative purposes only:

  • Transaction records
  • Customer profiles and geographic details
  • Historical business activity behavioral trends
  • External datasets (e.g., sanctions lists, public records)

Our framework accelerates insights and aids our compliance professionals’ evaluations by automating data analysis, enabling faster, evidence-based decisions. It verifies tenant and third-party applicant data during pre-onboarding to ensure compliance and risk-aware practices.

By analyzing tenant and third-party applicant data in real-time during prequalification, our system ensures adherence to AML/CTF standards defined by partner organizations. This alignment with regulatory requirements fosters a secure ecosystem for stakeholders.

Automated safeguards enhance reliability by:

  • Reducing manual oversight
  • Minimizing human error
  • Strengthening risk management across all stages
  • Our approach ensures regulatory compliance while advancing early detection and prevention of financial crimes, supporting long-term operational security.

Purpose

Our Enhanced Risk Assessment builds on the Level 1 Integration outcomes to rigorously evaluate risks tied to repository data.

This risk assessment phase allows companies to identify, evaluate, and manage potential risks that threaten their operations or objectives.

We ensure robust mitigation of money laundering (ML), terrorist financing (TF), and broader financial crime threats before any business relationship begins.

This is carried out through combined manual verification and risk-based analytics to safeguard operational integrity during counterparty onboarding.

Illustrative Purposes Only

What We Focus On

Industries with significant cash flow e.g.

  • Hospitality and Leisure,
  • Automotive and Transportation,
  • Real Estate and Construction) or

High-value professional services e.g.,

  • management consulting co,
  • Investment companies,
  • third-party payment providers.
  • Associations with sanctioned entities,
  • politically exposed persons (PEPs), or
  • jurisdictions on FATF’s high-risk list.
  • Various types of external and internal fraud.
  • Repeated cross-border transactions lacking clear purpose. Unverified cash inflows or sudden large payments suggest potential labour exploitation.
Legitimate income streams e.g.,
  • payroll,
  • business revenue,
  • inheritance,
  • regulated investments.
  • Advanced algorithms flag anomalies (e.g., irregular transaction patterns, mismatched data).
  • Manual verification of legal documents, financial audits, and public registries for context and accuracy to pinpoint high-risk areas.
  • Regulatory penalties, fraud exposure, reputational harm.
  • Validated partnerships, reduced legal liabilities, and long-term operational integrity.

Hybrid Strategy:

Combine cutting-edge technology with compliance professionals to identify and mitigate risks early.

Continuous Training:

Recognizing evolving threats through regular red flags, suspicious activity reporting, and compliance AML updates conducted by our assigned compliance professionals.

  • Initial Assessment: Our level 2 Prospective phase assigns applicants a risk rating, guiding ongoing monitoring after approval or decline.
  • Tenant Status: Approved applicants are formally recognized as tenant customers after onboarding.
  • Hybrid Process: Combines Level 1 Integration (automated checks) and Level 2 Prospective (risk profiling) for real-time, dynamic risk assessment.
  • Data Review: We systematically evaluate tenant customer records against assigned risk ratings to ensure relationship integrity.
  • Regular Maintenance: Tenant customer records are refreshed periodically based on risk ratings to ensure relevance and compliance.
  • Proactive Management: Update frequency aligns with risk severity to maintain precision.
  • Triggered Action: we deploy Customer Due Diligence (CDD) or Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) when alerts arise (e.g., regulatory changes, material events) or suspicious activity reporting is applied.
  • Relationship Safeguarding: Mitigates risks to preserve continuity and compliance in business partnerships.
  • Systematic Detection: Our Level 3 protocols identify suspicious activities (e.g., money laundering, terrorist financing) to protect stakeholders.
  • Preventive Framework: Actively prevent, detect, and report anomalies through robust risk-mitigation strategies.
  • Holistic Approach: our blended technology, compliance professionals’ oversight, and training to ensure transparency and accountability.
  • Stakeholder Safety: Safeguard secure environments for customers, institutions, and partners.

Safeguarding Global Operations

Edifice supports your business objectives through our comprehensive Counterparty Risk Management Services (CRMS). CRMS is applicable to any organization or individual looking to make informed decisions about whom they want to enter into business with, thus reducing risk and staying ahead with financial crime risk and regulatory infractions with our team.

We aim to be an ally to independent businesses and those seeking to build secure integrity business relationships within their companies. Our service is secure, steady, and reliable.

We streamline your counterparty onboarding before establishing new counterparty relationships, ensure regulatory compliance, and mitigate financial crime risks—oversight risk management to your onboarding operations from exploitation while enabling secure international growth.

Robust Counterparty Onboarding

  • Governance & Resources: Our automated workflows + expert guidance to manage onboarding risks.
  • AML/CFT Compliance: We streamline each tenant’s tenancy repository data, tailored to deliver exceptional value and efficiency through a robust framework that minimizes the financial crime risk and regulatory infractions, complying with global standards.
  • Level 3 Data Review: Systematic tenant’s tenancy customer data analysis is prioritized by risk ratings and ongoing monitoring throughout the business relationship.
  • Threat Prevention involves: Proactive detection towards sanctions, money laundering (ML), terrorist financing (TF), and fraud prevention.
  • Subject Matter Expertise: Leverage insights from financial sector veterans and regulatory authorities.
  • Strategic & Operational Excellence: Combined legal, technical, and compliance skills for end-to-end protection.
  • Risk Accuracy: Avoid fines and reputational damage with precision analytics and subject matter expertise oversight.
  • Global Compliance: Navigate international regulations confidently with our proven framework.
  • Future-Proof Growth: Focus on scaling your business while we manage your onboarding compliance complexities.

Collaborative Vision

Join us in pioneering a secure digital ecosystem where data integrity and compliance are non-negotiable. Through advanced authentication and global risk assessment tools, we’ll help you excel in international markets while building trust with your customers.

Next Steps

Let’s collaborate to:

  • Implement tailored CRMS solutions for your business operations.
  • A team of subject matter experts in cutting-edge onboarding risk management practices.
  • Achieve seamless compliance across jurisdictions.

Together, we’ll turn regulatory challenges into competitive advantages.

Ready to elevate your global compliance strategy? Let’s connect!

Risk assessment processes play a pivotal role in shaping financial reporting decisions and ensuring the reliability of internal controls over financial reporting to local regulators. However, we are concerned by cases where management and auditors adopt an overly narrow lens. These prioritising risks directly affect financial statements while neglecting broader, organization-wide risks that could indirectly undermine local regulators and reporting accuracy. This shortsighted approach jeopardizes investors by allowing material business risks to remain unaddressed and undisclosed, ultimately eroding trust in financial disclosures.

Failure to address systemic risks compromises the transparency and reliability of financial information.
A comprehensive risk framework must account for financial and operational risks, including governance, culture, and emerging threats.

To safeguard accountability and market confidence, stakeholders must demand rigorous, entity-wide risk evaluations.

Our reframing emphasises the necessity of a strategic, integrated approach to risk assessment that aligns with investor protection and long-term organisational resilience.

  • Seamless Relationships: Keep partnerships stable and productive, even during changes or exits.
  • Risk Support: Proactively manage risks during onboarding and beyond.
  • Global Governance: Strengthen your operations as you grow internationally, ensuring compliance and trust.
  • Integrity-Driven Process: Build transparent, reliable customer interactions to enhance integrity. Strengthen your operations as you grow internationally, ensuring compliance and trust.

Established Network: Edifice partnerships with global businesses, investors (including HNW individuals), private equity firms, and family offices.

Demonstrated Success: our history of fostering strategic, mutually beneficial collaborations.

  • Integrity: our consistent, ethical practices keep your partners confident.
  • Growth: we support your expanding business while we build Integrity, handling your risks onboarding processes.

Let’s work together to maintain a strong AML-CFT internal info structure that safeguards reputable business practices, reduces costs, sustains international ecosystem business relationships, and turns challenges into successful opportunities.

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