About

A New Taipei assurance practice built for fintech examination seasons

Tidewater Assurance Group exists to examine payment, onboarding, and outsourcing controls with the same seriousness examiners bring — then leave management with a file they can defend.

Origin

The practice formed after years of watching remittance and e-payment teams scramble binder contents the week before a supervisory visit. Founders who had sat on both sides of the table — as operators and as reviewers — wanted a firm that would re-perform controls, not merely interview about them.

We remain deliberately small. Engagements are staffed by people who can read a settlement break and a policy clause in the same afternoon. Growth that would force junior-only fieldwork is declined.

How we work with clients

We ask for populations early, challenge incomplete extracts, and document disagreements in the working papers. Closing meetings are direct: severity ratings are explained, not softened into slide poetry. Management responses are recorded verbatim in the final memorandum annex.

Values that show up in the file

  • Independence disclosed and protected — no silent consulting on the same control set we later “audit”
  • Language plain enough for a board director who does not live in compliance jargon
  • Respect for Taiwan’s supervisory calendar and the real cost of pulling operations staff into walkthroughs
Assurance team discussing findings around a meeting table

Closing workshop rhythm — findings before formatting

People

Leads you may meet on an engagement

Portrait of Hui-Min Lin, engagement partner

Hui-Min Lin

Engagement partner

Former payments compliance lead; now owns scoping letters and board briefings for control environment audits.

Portrait of Marcus Tan, senior auditor

Marcus Tan

Senior auditor

Specialises in remittance corridor testing and dual-approval path reviews across multi-currency desks.

Portrait of Sofia Reyes, AML review lead

Sofia Reyes

AML review lead

Focuses on alert narrative quality, CDD refresh evidence, and MLRO briefing packs ahead of examination Q&A.

Visit

Office

39155 Schuppe Rue, 新北縣, 台灣省, Taiwan

+886-6-177-6237 · hello@automatedrouting.digital

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