Regulatory Permissions for an Irish Payment Services Firm

Our client was applying for Payment Services permissions from the Central Bank of Ireland and required support in defining and documenting the Governance and Compliance framework.

Division
Innovation, Authorisations & Banking Solutions
Industry

Payment Services & Card/ Merchant Acquirers

Service-line

The Client

Irish Payment Services Firm

The Challenge

Our client was applying for Payment Services permissions from the Central Bank of Ireland and required support in defining and documenting the Governance and Compliance framework.

The Solution

Lysis provided a small team of experienced compliance SMEs to draft the required documents including Enterprise Wide Risk Assessment (EWRA), risk models and policies and then designed the overall control framework to be implemented.

Results
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