Adrian Vale
Focuses on payment institution control universes, board briefings, and factual clearance of findings memos.
About
A small audit practice built around fintech control evidence
East Vale Control Audit exists for payment, lending, and wallet teams who need an independent reader of their reconciliations—not a generalist consultancy slide deck.
Origin
The practice began after years of reviewing settlement exceptions for regional fintech groups serving Taiwanese merchants and remittance customers. Too many “control reviews” stopped at policy diagrams. We formed East Vale to keep the work close to clearing files, approval matrices, and the people who force-post when a partner file arrives late.
Our base address in 基隆縣 keeps us within reach of northern Taiwan’s finance and operations teams, with remote document rooms for entities elsewhere in the country.
Working approach
- Name the product line and period before requesting evidence
- Interview the operators who actually post, not only the policy authors
- Rank exceptions by residual risk to customers and the books
- Leave remediation sequencing management can assign by name
People
Who leads the engagements
We stay deliberately small so the person scoping your audit remains involved through fieldwork and the closing briefing.
Grace Chen
Leads settlement window reviews and dual-control sampling across card acquiring and domestic transfer rails.
Marcus Ito
Indexes evidence rooms, performs reconciliation samples, and supports remediation follow-up checks.
Values that show up in the memo
Independence means we will leave an exception open when evidence is thin—even if that slows a board calendar. Clarity means severity definitions appear before the annex. Respect for operators means walkthroughs stay specific to their queues, not theatrical interviews for show.
We do not sell software, and we do not replace your internal audit department on a permanent retainer unless a separate engagement letter says so. We deliver time-bound audits for fintech control environments and the briefings that help directors read the results.
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