Corgentum advises digital-asset, fintech, payments, and alternative investment firms — and the investors who back them — across compliance, AML and licensing, and operational due diligence.
Independent by design — we work for the institutions carrying the risk, not the products being sold. Each engagement is scoped to the specific exposures of the strategy in front of us.
Compliance program design and oversight for exchanges, funds, and token issuers operating ahead of settled regulation.
End-to-end AML and BSA program builds — policies, transaction monitoring, OFAC screening, model validation, and FinCEN reporting.
US money services business registration and state money transmitter (MTL) licensing, plus non-US regimes including Dubai's VARA and the EU's MiCA framework.
Programs addressing the FCPA, the UK Bribery Act, and data-privacy obligations such as the GDPR for firms operating across borders.
Readiness and support for SOC 2, ISO 27001, and SOX — building the control environment auditors expect to see.
Pre-IPO audit readiness, public-company reporting support (8-K and 10-K), and mock examinations modeled on SEC, CFTC, and NFA reviews.
Senior compliance leadership on demand — standing in as Chief Compliance Officer or advising the executives who hold the seat.
Comprehensive operational due diligence reviews across hedge funds, private equity, real estate, and digital-asset vehicles.
Deep-dive background investigations of managers and key personnel — meaningful analysis, not a flood of unfiltered results.
On-chain forensics, wallet attribution, and fund tracing across the major chains, plus Travel Rule support.
Corgentum is led by Jason Scharfman — an attorney admitted in New York and New Jersey, and a former Director at Morgan Stanley overseeing a large alternative-investment compliance platform. His advisory work spans engagements with the UK FCA, US IRS, ASIC, and the US SEC's Enforcement Division on digital-asset and compliance matters, and he is the author of numerous books on operational due diligence, compliance, and digital-asset fraud.
A body of work published with Palgrave Macmillan, Wiley, and Elsevier — increasingly focused on the compliance and fraud challenges of digital assets.
A recurring examination of real-world digital-asset fraud — how it works, how it's caught, and what diligence would have surfaced it.
The core elements of a hedge fund compliance program, from policy design through the evolving role of the Chief Compliance Officer.
The foundational guide for investors designing and running a program to review a manager's operational risk.