Soliman Consulting Services
Advisory

Counsel from someone who has run it, not modelled it.

A small number of engagements where operating experience changes the answer, across the UK, US, and Middle East.

How I work

I take a small number of engagements where operating experience changes the answer. Most begin as a strategic retainer or a scoped project, and many clients come through direct introduction. The practice operates across the UK, US, and Middle East. Full credentials and a due-diligence pack are available on request.

Practice A

Digital money transformation

For governments, central banks, banks, and large institutions.

I help institutions design and operate regulated money that survives contact with reality, drawing on operating experience in both capital markets and regulated digital assets.

  • Stablecoin and tokenised-deposit strategy and operating-model design
  • Reserve management, attestation, and custody architecture
  • Blockchain selection and multichain approval: Layer 1 due diligence, deployment strategy, and securing supervisor sign-off for issuance on new chains. I secured NYDFS approval to issue GYEN and ZUSD across Stellar, Solana, and Klaytn, plus Layer 2s including Arbitrum and Optimism, and I can make warm introductions to the major protocols
  • Crisis and resilience design: de-peg response, banking-rail redundancy, freeze-and-seize protocol, supervisor reporting
  • CBDC, stablecoin, and tokenised-deposit trade-offs for monetary authorities, anchored on the monetary-sovereignty question
  • Independent quality assessment using the StableCheck methodology

The crisis-resilience work is rare. Few advisors have personally executed a freeze-and-seize or filed an incident report with a live regulator. I have.

Compliance and financial-crime advisory

Running a regulated issuer means owning these functions in production and answering to a supervisor for them. That is where advisors who have only read the rules come up short. I ran this stack live under NYDFS supervision, through an on-chain attack and concurrent litigation, so I can help you build and operate:

  • Transaction monitoring and blockchain analytics: selecting and configuring the leading tools to your risk profile, not a generic checklist
  • Travel Rule compliance: FATF Recommendation 16, the interoperability problem between the leading solutions, and cross-border data exchange
  • Regulatory onboarding and client classification: KYC/KYB, jurisdictional permissioning, and counterparty due diligence with the leading onboarding systems
  • Sanctions and wallet screening, and ongoing customer due diligence
  • AML/CFT programmes designed to survive supervisory inspection, with SAR/STR filing and regulator reporting
Practice B

UAE market entry

For international financial-services, fintech, payments, and digital-asset firms establishing in the Emirates.

The UAE has positioned itself as the institutional digital-asset hub for the region. I help firms enter it with regulatory fluency and a credible local footing: senior strategy, not paperwork. My regulated background across three jurisdictions extends the same fluency to UK and US corridors.

  • Regulatory pathway selection across CBUAE, ADGM/FSRA, VARA, and DFSA, with engagement support
  • Go-to-market strategy, localisation, and commercial positioning
  • Institutional distribution and sales strategy
  • Vendor and partner selection: custody, banking, market making, technology
  • Senior introductions, governed by a clear independence policy

This is the strategic counsel a serious entrant needs, distinct from the company-formation and licensing logistics that other providers handle. Where that administrative work is needed, I coordinate or refer it.

Independence

My standing depends on relationships that crude commercialisation would destroy.

So I protect them deliberately. My standards-body, ACI committee, and policy roles stay independent of paid work. I disclose commercial interests, decline mandates that pit me against parties I am bound to, and treat my network as something deployed with consent rather than traded. Where I have an interest in a product or platform, I say so and step back from advising on its selection. Regulatory relationships are a matter of credibility and fluency, never of influence.

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