Strategic & Corporate Intelligence Consulting for Cyprus & EU

You don't have an information problem. You have an intelligence problem.

Every business today has more data than it can use: market reports, competitor news, filings, briefings, and still gets blindsided by risks it should have seen coming. The gap is never the information; it's the discipline to turn it into a decision. We bring that structured, intelligence-grade process to market-entry, structuring, risk, and competitive decisions for EMIs, PSPs, investment firms, iGaming operators, law firms and corporate groups, before capital is committed.

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The Problem

Businesses don't fail from a lack of information. They fail from never treating it as intelligence.

Structured, evidence-weighing analysis is usually associated with national security and espionage, but the same discipline applies just as directly to a market-entry call, a counterparty-risk assessment, or a competitive move. Most businesses skip it entirely: they gather more reports, or trust a senior gut call. Neither replaces a disciplined process for turning information into a decision, and that process is exactly what prevents the costliest mistakes.

That gap is most expensive for EMIs, PSPs, investment firms, iGaming operators, crypto firms and other regulated or internationally-exposed businesses, where a wrong call also carries onboarding, licensing and counterparty-risk consequences, and where compliance advisory is usually delivered by large generalist firms at law-firm rates and pace.

Intelligence Strategist exists to close that gap: disciplined, intelligence-grade analytic technique applied to the decision, backed by real EMI/PSP-desk judgment and direct payments/banking-relationship knowledge, in one boutique practice.

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credentials most advisory firms don't combine: formal structured-analytic training, onboarding-desk AML/KYB judgment, and direct EMI/PSP banking relationships.
What We Deliver

Structured analysis first, regulatory and payments depth behind it.

Every engagement is led by disciplined, intelligence-grade analytic technique, backed by real regulatory and payments-industry experience where the decision needs it. Every fee is scoped to the specific engagement and confirmed in writing before any project work begins.

Strategic Intelligence

Structured Analytic Strategy & Scenario Planning

Market-entry and go/no-go decisions assessed using structured, intelligence-grade analytic technique: the same discipline used in professional intelligence analysis, applied directly to your business decision.

Competitive Intelligence

Competitor profiling and SWOT analysis for iGaming, PSP and fintech peers, typically scoped alongside a due-diligence or market-entry engagement.

Core Advisory

Compliance & Onboarding Readiness

Pre-onboarding readiness reviews for EMIs, PSPs, investment firms, iGaming and crypto clients: KYB structure, source-of-funds narrative, UBO documentation, AML policy gap review, before you approach a bank, EMI or regulator.

Banking & Payment Solution Sourcing

Matching your business profile (jurisdiction, sector, volumes, risk category) to the right EMI, PSP or bank, managing the introduction, and preparing the onboarding file.

Due Diligence & Corporate Structuring

KYB-grade due diligence on counterparties or acquisition targets, and corporate/UBO structuring: holding-company segregation, director-tier design, licensing-driven entity separation.

Regulatory & Risk Intelligence

Political, economic and regulatory risk analysis for market entry or counterparty exposure: AMLD / MiCA / PSD2 tracking, sanctions/PEP context, reputational-risk monitoring, jurisdiction and site comparison.

OSINT & Open-Source Intelligence

Systematic collection and analysis of publicly available information (corporate registries, media, court and regulatory filings, sanctions and watchlists, digital footprint) to support due diligence, risk assessment and competitive analysis.

Engagement fees are quoted individually once scope is confirmed. The only published, fixed fee is the €500 Intelligence Consultation below, the starting point for every engagement. This fee is prepaid and non-refundable; see our Refund Policy.

How It Works

Paid for the diagnosis. Only pay for execution if you want it.

Every engagement starts the same way: a focused, paid consultation with a written answer. No long sales process.

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Intelligence Consultation

A focused 45-minute confidential session, booked and paid in advance. You get a written 1–2 page problem diagnosis and recommended path within 48 hours.

€500, prepaid
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Follow-Up Call

15 minutes, included in the consultation fee, to walk through the write-up and answer questions.

Included
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Engagement (optional)

If you want it executed, your consultation fee is credited in full toward the project. Fee scoped to the engagement, paid in milestones, not all upfront.

Scoped proposal
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About

Intelligence is only useful if someone has sat on both sides of the desk.

I'm Savvas Hadjiminas. Before founding Intelligence Strategist, I spent close to two decades running my own business, then moved into fintech, EMI and payments roles, reviewing onboarding files, assessing counterparty risk, and watching which businesses got approved and which didn't, and why.

Alongside that, I hold an MSc in Intelligence Management and apply formal, structured analytic technique (the same disciplined approach used in professional intelligence analysis) to corporate structuring, feasibility and market-entry questions. I combine the two rather than treating them as separate disciplines: regulatory and payments-industry judgment, tested with intelligence-grade rigour.

Every engagement is confidential, and every deliverable is written to be acted on, not filed away.

  • EducationMSc Intelligence Management, Henley-Putnam School of Strategic Security
  • Industry~20 years in business, including roles across EMI, PSP, crypto/FX and cross-border payments
  • RegulatoryPSD2, MiCA, AMLD, Cyprus CBC licensing; CySEC AML certification in progress
Insights

Recent thinking.

Compliance

What EMIs actually look for in a KYB file (and where most applications fail)

The onboarding-desk view of the documentation gaps that cause the most rejections, and how to close them before you apply.

Structuring

When to separate a business into more than one legal entity

A practical framework for deciding when licensing, liability or banking friction justifies a HoldCo/OpCo split, and when it doesn't.

Approach

Why intelligence-grade analysis beats gut instinct on a market-entry decision

How the structured, evidence-weighing discipline used in professional intelligence analysis applies directly to a go/no-go business decision.

Get Started

Let's talk, confidentially.

Every engagement begins with a paid, 45-minute Intelligence Consultation: a confidential, focused session that ends with a written diagnosis, not just a conversation.

Book your Intelligence Consultation

€500, prepaid and non-refundable
By booking you agree to our Refund Policy and Terms & Conditions.
Partners

Working alongside specialists we trust.

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TRN Cybersecurity (Tirion)

Authorised security testing, penetration testing, OSINT investigations and regulatory readiness (NIS2, CRA) for organisations that need to validate their security posture, not just document it. Intelligence Strategist and Tirion partner where a client's risk picture spans both corporate/regulatory intelligence and technical security assurance.

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