Greenlit helps Canadian fintechs get the licenses they need to operate — with ease, professionalism, and certainty. Licensing can feel high-stakes and confusing, especially when your whole business depends on the outcome. Our role is simple: make your business possible, and keep it that way.
Greenlit was built around a small set of choices. They're the reason our clients keep coming back when the next registration comes due.
We don't shop jurisdictions. We file in the one that matters to your customers, and we know its regulators cold. Federal first — FINTRAC, the Bank of Canada, the CSA — with provincial overlays where they apply.
A lawyer and consultants under the same roof. Legal opinions, applications, and operational compliance from one team, on one written scope. No handoffs between firms. No billable-hour clock.
Licensing is a moment. Compliance is the operating model. We're here for both — through your first regulator exam, through the program revisions a growing business asks of you, and through the next registration when it comes.
Every engagement starts with a scope call. Thirty to forty-five minutes, with whoever owns the registration on your side. We map your business model — products, flows, who holds funds, who the customer is — to the registrations that actually apply. If the answer is "fewer than you thought," we say so.
What follows is a written, fixed-scope proposal. Deliverables, timeline, and price are stated up front. No surprises later, no hourly billing, no scope creep on a regulator's timeline. You see exactly what we're going to file and what the program underneath looks like before any work begins.
Then the build. We write the application and the AML program together — they have to match, and a regulator can tell when they don't. Filings are structured the way examiners actually read them, not the way templates suggest. Legal opinions, policies, and operational procedures come from the same team, in the same voice.
And then we stay. Regulator follow-ups, examination prep, training, annual program review — the work of operating a regulated business. Licensing is a moment. The program is the operating model. We're built for both.
Senior compliance and legal practitioners. The person on your scope call is the person on your file — not a partner who hands you off to a junior the next morning.
Regulators we file with
A scope call is the right place to start. Tell us what you're building — we'll tell you which registrations apply and what a fixed scope would look like.