Professional Services
PSP & Counterparty Due Diligence
Structured due diligence support for firms reviewing payment service providers, correspondent counterparties and institutional payment relationships. Produces a documented evidence record suitable for compliance files, counterparty review and onboarding governance.
This service is an independent review and documentation support service. It does not constitute payments-licensing advice, regulatory inspection, statutory audit or legal advice. Clients remain responsible for their own compliance obligations and regulatory relationships.
Review scope
- PSP / counterparty entity verification and registration review
- Regulatory standing review against applicable payments and AML regimes
- Sanctions, PEP and adverse-media pre-screening
- Beneficial ownership and control structure mapping
- Settlement, safeguarding and reconciliation control review
- Operational risk, financial-crime control and incident-history review
- Documentation review of contracts, scheme participation and risk policies
- Onboarding evidence-pack structure for counterparty governance
Deliverables
- Structured PSP / counterparty due diligence workpaper record
- Entity, regulatory and ownership evidence summary
- Sanctions and adverse-media screening output
- Control and operational risk observations
- Onboarding-ready evidence pack
Engagements are scoped individually. All work is subject to written engagement terms, conflicts checks and independence confirmation before commencing.
Enquire about this serviceService Notice: Professional services provided by BlackCores and Partners LLP are described as review, survey, documentation and administration support. They do not constitute regulated financial advice, regulated legal advice, statutory audit, insurance advice, investment management or any other regulated financial service. Engagement terms and scope are confirmed separately in writing.