Regulatory Statement

MAS is a private limited company incorporated under the Companies Act, 2013 of India, with its registered office in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. The firm operates as a management and technology advisory practice.

MAS does not undertake any of the following activities and is not registered or authorised to do so:

Investment advisory or research within the meaning of the SEBI (Investment Advisers) Regulations, 2013 or the SEBI (Research Analysts) Regulations, 2014.

Portfolio management, merchant banking, stock broking, or underwriting under the respective SEBI regulations.

Banking, lending, deposit-taking, payment-system operation, or any other activity for which a licence is required from the Reserve Bank of India.

Insurance broking, insurance solicitation, or any other activity for which a licence is required from the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India.

Statutory audit, internal audit certification, or any other audit-attestation service that is the exclusive preserve of chartered accountants under the Chartered Accountants Act, 1949.

Practice of law, drafting of binding legal opinions, or representation before any court or tribunal under the Advocates Act, 1961 or analogous legislation in any other jurisdiction.

Cross-border equivalent activities requiring authorisation in any other jurisdiction in which the firm's clients are located, including but not limited to the FCA (United Kingdom), MAS (Singapore), DFSA (Dubai International Financial Centre), FSCA (South Africa), and SEC / FINRA / state regulators (United States).

MAS provides non-regulated management advisory services, including strategy formulation, operating-model design, enterprise-architecture advisory (including BIAN-aligned blueprints), technology selection and sourcing advisory, risk-management framework design, audit-readiness preparation, compliance-programme design, and accounting and transaction-advisory analytical support.

Our work is delivered by senior practitioners under written engagement letters that scope the deliverable, define the standard of care, and identify any third-party experts (for example, statutory auditors or external counsel) who must be separately engaged where regulated work is required.

Where an engagement reveals a need for regulated services — for example, a formal legal opinion, a statutory audit, an investment recommendation, or a regulatory filing — MAS will say so transparently and assist the client in engaging an appropriately licensed firm. MAS may continue to provide non-regulated advisory support alongside such firms, but does not perform the regulated work itself.

MAS does not issue, sponsor, distribute, or recommend any security, fund, deposit, loan, insurance contract, derivative, or other financial product. The firm has no securities offering and no fundraising activity addressed to the public.

MAS maintains internal client-onboarding and integrity-screening procedures consistent with the principles of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 (India) and the recommendations of the Financial Action Task Force. While we are not a reporting entity under the PMLA, we apply risk-based onboarding diligence to every client engagement.

MAS maintains a written conflicts-of-interest policy. Before accepting an engagement we perform a conflict check; where a potential conflict is identified, we either decline the engagement, obtain informed written consent from all affected parties, or implement ethical-wall controls as appropriate.

All client information is treated as confidential. MAS personnel are bound by written confidentiality undertakings that survive termination of employment. Confidentiality obligations are reinforced through technical access controls and need-to-know information governance.

MAS maintains professional indemnity insurance appropriate to the scale and nature of its consulting engagements. Details of cover are available to engaged clients on written request.

Regulators and authorised representatives of regulated clients seeking confirmation of the firm's status or its work product may write to info@madrasadvisory.com, attention: Compliance.