As CEO and founder of COREDO, I see every day how entrepreneurs from Europe, Asia and the CIS face challenges structuring investment businesses for effective investor onboarding. Our experience since 2016 in registering legal entities in the EU, Singapore, Dubai and other jurisdictions shows: the right investment structure accelerates investor onboarding, reduces risks and increases ROI. In this article I will explain how the COREDO team implements a scalable investment structure by integrating AML/KYC compliance and optimizing processes for your success. Over that time, dozens of investment structures have gone through COREDO projects: holdings, venture studios, family offices, private investment vehicles and fintech platforms. We have supported clients not only at the registration stage, but also during banking checks, licensing procedures, restructurings and scaling onboarding across multiple jurisdictions simultaneously.
Business structuring and investor onboarding
As CEO of COREDO I personally participate in developing structures for investment projects, negotiating with banks and licensing authorities and modeling investor onboarding flows. We build systems as if the regulator, the bank and the key investor arrived for an inspection on the same day.
This project started with disparate companies and manual procedures. After restructuring we built a unified investment architecture: a holding, operational SPVs and a centralized compliance framework, which allowed scaling onboarding without increasing operational costs.
In Asia, where we registered companies in Singapore, the focus is on local MAS regulations. One project: structuring a holding for onboarding with SPVs (special purpose vehicle) for cross-border investments. This minimized risks and accelerated onboarding for Asian and European partners.
Optimizing company structure for onboarding
Simplifying investor onboarding starts with the investment business structure, where every element serves speed and compliance. In practice we design the structure around the future investor journey: from first contact and KYC to profit distribution and exit from investments.
After implementation this model became a reference for other investment projects, where regulators and banks evaluated not only documents but also the real effectiveness of investor onboarding.
Mistakes in onboarding almost always cost more than a correct architecture at the start. We conduct Due Diligence at the company registration stage, analyzing investors’ risk appetite and sanction lists. Example: a client from Singapore was obtaining a crypto license; the solution developed at COREDO included escrow accounts and risk management in onboarding, which reduced capital outflow by 25%.
Optimizing onboarding in investment companies requires a welcome package for investors: a personalized portal with video guides, a portfolio dashboard and regular feedback.
Cross-border onboarding: EU, Asia, CIS
We combine cross-border onboarding in Asia with company registration in Asia. In Dubai and Singapore the COREDO team builds a hybrid structure (holding + fund) compliant with local requirements. For a client from the United Kingdom we created an investment committee with automated onboarding, ensuring cross-border compliance and reducing time to full productivity to 2 weeks.
In the CIS and EU the focus is on onboarding in the EU for investors: registration in the Czech Republic or Slovakia with NPI/SPI licenses for payment services.
Scaling an investment structure requires a corporate onboarding policy. At COREDO we use metrics: onboarding ROI metrics (ROI = (LTV – CAC)/CAC), cost of reaching productivity.
AML consulting and licensing
financial licenses – the key to investor loyalty. The COREDO team assisted in obtaining banking, forex and payment licenses in Lithuania, Poland and Switzerland.
Comprehensive support includes Legal outsourcing: from legal opinion to trademark protection under the Madrid Protocol.
Plan from COREDO: practical steps
- Audit and structure selection: We analyze your current model and propose structural optimization for onboarding (EU for stability, Asia for speed).
- Company registration: Full cycle – from documents to accounts, including registration of entities for investments in Asia and the EU.
- Licensing and AML: We implement KYC/AML procedures, automating them for progressive onboarding.
- Onboarding launch: A checklist with gamification, regular feedback to investors and engagement in investment projects.
- We track onboarding KPIs, adjusting to reduce capital outflow and increase ROI.