The Firm

Built From the Inside.

The best operations are invisible. Settlement runs. Reconciliation clears. Safeguarding complies. The board gets clean data. The regulator finds nothing unexpected. Nobody talks about it, because there's nothing to talk about.

That doesn't happen by accident. It happens by design.

This practice was built on nearly two decades of designing it from the inside — starting in audit at Big4, through various roles in a credit institution, to Group CFO and Deputy CEO roles in regulated European EMIs, and founding a payment company in an emerging market. The work on this site is not theory. It is what the work actually looked like from the operator's chair.

Every engagement is led by someone who has built, scaled, and been accountable for the operations we build — not by someone who read about them. When the firm grows, it grows by adding operators who have carried the same accountability. Senior people do the work. No juniors, no hand-offs.

We work with regulated financial firms — from EMIs and payment institutions to investment firms, CASPs, and funds — and with high-growth companies operating at financial-institution complexity. We call our approach QuietOps™, and the goal is simple: make your operations so well-designed that nobody ever has to talk about them.

FCA (ICAEW) · CFA Charterholder · Global Executive MBA (IE Business School) · Fit & Proper approved (DNB, CBC)

Leadership

Elle Veradi Advisory is led by Eleonora Christofidou, FCA (ICAEW) chartered accountant and CFA charterholder. She has been personally director-approved by the Central Bank of Cyprus and fit-and-proper assessed by De Nederlandsche Bank, with operating experience under the FCA, CSSF, CBC, and Banco Central do Brasil regimes across the UK, Luxembourg, Cyprus, the Netherlands, and Brazil. Before founding the firm, she held Group CFO and Deputy CEO roles in regulated European EMIs and founded a cross-border payment company in Brazil.

Selected Work

Engagements that required the full picture.

01

European EMI — Operational Architecture & M&A Advisory

A company with an active EMI license application had contracted us to build the finance processes but it quickly extended to discussion of technology and building the whole operati…

Operations SetupOp ArchitectureM&A AdvisoryReporting
02

European Payment Group — €37M in Recurring Revenue

Joined a multi-entity payment group carrying scheme penalties, tax errors, and no Big 4 audit in its history. Delivered the first clean audit, rebuilt the entire finance department…

Operations ReviewReportingLicensingOp Architecture
03

Global Payment Platform — Finance From Zero

Joined as the first finance hire at a payment company with no financial infrastructure. Built the function from one person to a global team across LatAm, APAC, India, and Africa. O…

Operations SetupOp ArchitectureReporting
04

Cross-Border Startup — Licensing Across Two Continents

Led payment institution authorization in Brazil (BCB) and EMI license application in Luxembourg (CSSF) simultaneously. Cleared the BCB substantive review phase — business plan, gov…

LicensingOperations SetupOp Architecture

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