NexusFTx: exchange licensing stack for Hong Kong and the Bahamas
Business plans, a financial model and AML/CFT controls for a crypto exchange applying for licences under Hong Kong’s SFC regime and the Bahamas DARE Act.
- Client
- NexusFTx
- Service
- Licensing documents
- Period
- Exchange licensing engagement
- Review
- 5.0 on Upwork
Client documents
Confidential. Not published here; available to prospective clients under NDA.
- NDABusiness plans, Hong Kong and Bahamas
- NDAFinancial model
- NDAExchange architecture
- NDAHelp-centre content: FAQs, user, trade and margin guides
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The brief
NexusFTx planned a regulated exchange offering spot, perpetuals and custody in two jurisdictions at once. Each regulator wanted to see a credible business, a funded operating plan and controls that matched local rules, and the two sets of documents had to stay consistent with each other.
What I did
- Licence architecture for SFC Type 1 and Type 7 approvals alongside Bahamas DARE registration
- Business plans for Hong Kong and the Bahamas, plus a token listing policy
- Risk controls covering market risk, AML red-flag rules, custody and fund segregation via a trust structure
- Onboarding logic aligned with AMLO, JFIU and FATF guidance
- Financial model of $114M three-year trading volume, with revenue and cost split and operating runway
- Separate token filtering for professional and retail investors
Frameworks and tools
- SFC Type 1 and 7
- Bahamas DARE Act
- AMLO
- FATF
- Excel
Outcome
- A complete dual-jurisdiction documentation stack, from business plan to governance and staffing model
- Clients across the Singapore, Bahamas and Hong Kong exchange work rated the engagement 5.0, citing independent execution and quality
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