Digital Assets & Crypto AML

An advanced and highly specialized program designed to address the unique Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing (AML/CFT) risks associated with digital assets and cryptocurrencies. The program equips participants with practical blockchain investigation techniques, blockchain analytics tools, and compliance frameworks for Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASPs) in accordance with the latest guidance issued by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF).

Duration: 2 Days
Training Hours: 12 Training Hours
Target Audience: Compliance officers in FinTech companies and banks, cryptocurrency risk analysts, regulatory authorities, and financial investigators.
Delivery Mode: In-person / Live Online

Detailed Learning Objectives

By the end of the program, participants will be able to:

• Understand the technical architecture of blockchain networks, pseudonymity features, and how they may be exploited for money laundering and terrorist financing.
• Apply FATF standards for Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASPs), including implementation of the Travel Rule and inter-VASP information-sharing requirements.
• Utilize leading blockchain analytics platforms, such as Chainalysis and Elliptic, to trace cryptocurrency transactions and investigate illicit financial flows.
• Develop a risk assessment methodology tailored to digital asset customers, wallets, and cryptocurrency transactions.
• Identify and assess sophisticated money laundering typologies involving mixers, tumblers, cross-chain bridges, and other blockchain obfuscation techniques.

Key Topics

• Blockchain Fundamentals: Digital asset ecosystems, blockchain architecture, liquidity, and transaction obfuscation techniques.
• FATF Travel Rule: Practical implementation, compliance requirements, and information-sharing challenges among VASPs.
• Blockchain Analytics Tools: Overview of leading blockchain investigation platforms and interpretation of analytical findings for financial investigations.
• Advanced Cryptocurrency Money Laundering Typologies: Mixers, tumblers, chain-hopping, cross-chain bridges, and NFT wash trading schemes.
• Building a VASP Compliance Framework: Governance, AML/CFT policies, customer due diligence (CDD), transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, and suspicious transaction reporting.