TidalIQ Limited

TidalIQ is a B2B fintech company developing trading, clearing, and settlement infrastructure for mandated environmental compliance markets, beginning with maritime transport.

New environmental regulations are creating compulsory markets where companies must meet emissions targets or rebalance compliance positions through regulated pooling and trading mechanisms. Participation is mandatory, timelines are fixed, and the financial consequences are material. Despite this, the underlying market infrastructure remains fragmented, manual, and exposed to verification and settlement risk.

TidalIQ addresses this gap by building a neutral transaction layer that enables regulated environmental markets to function efficiently and at scale. Rather than acting as a broker, advisor, or market-maker, TidalIQ focuses on standardising execution, verification, documentation, and audit trails, while allowing commercial terms to be agreed privately between counterparties. Neutrality is central to the model and underpins its long-term defensibility.

Today, TidalIQ operates at the commercial and structuring layer of the maritime compliance market. The company facilitates compliant transactions and works directly with accredited verifiers and liquidity providers, using this activity to validate workflows, pricing dynamics, and regulatory requirements. In parallel, TidalIQ is developing a secure, regulation-aligned digital platform to automate the end-to-end compliance transaction lifecycle, including onboarding, verification, execution, and settlement through regulated payment partners.

While maritime compliance is the initial focus, TidalIQ is designed as foundational infrastructure. The same regulatory mechanics are emerging across adjacent transport and emissions-regulated sectors, including aviation and wider carbon markets. TidalIQ’s long-term vision is to support this expanding landscape by providing a common, trusted transaction layer for regulation-driven environmental markets.

TidalIQ was created during the first year of live environmental compliance under new maritime emissions regulations in 2025. The company’s founder spent over a decade working at sea and in ship management, where regulatory compliance was a constant operational reality. When these regulations moved from planning into real application, it became clear that compliance was no longer just a reporting task, but a financial and commercial challenge the industry was not prepared to manage.

The new framework allowed companies to balance performance across assets or face escalating penalties. While this appeared flexible in theory, the first compliance year exposed major gaps. Compliance positions were tracked manually, market engagement relied on informal bilateral discussions, documentation standards varied, and settlement risk sat entirely with participants. For many small and mid-sized operators, the lack of trusted infrastructure made participation feel complex and risky.

Throughout 2025, the founder worked closely with operators, verifiers, and other market participants as the first compliance cycle unfolded. This period was used to observe how the market functioned in practice, understand regulatory expectations, and identify where operational and financial risk concentrated. It became clear that participation was mandatory, yet the trading and settlement infrastructure normally associated with regulated markets did not exist.

TidalIQ was formed to address this gap. Rather than entering the market prematurely, the company focused on analysis, transaction structuring, and stakeholder engagement. Relationships were established with accredited verifiers and liquidity providers, and the full compliance workflow was mapped before any technology was built.

As the first compliance year concludes, TidalIQ has progressed from problem identification to market validation and is now entering the platform development phase, grounded in real-world experience rather than theory.