BIPA Highlights Standards Challenge at INTERPOL Forum

Vienna, September 2025 — At the 4th INTERPOL New Technologies Forum, Diana Pătruț, Project Manager at the Blockchain Intelligence Professionals Association, delivered a presentation on “Crypto STRs & SARs – Best Practices, Challenges, and Opportunities.”

Her intervention stressed the urgent need for global standards to address the increasing volume and complexity of suspicious crypto-asset transaction data. With STRs and SARs multiplying across jurisdictions, Diana highlighted the risks of fragmentation, inconsistent reporting, and missed red flags. She called for harmonized frameworks that improve reporting quality, define common red flags, and enable effective cross-border collaboration.

“Failing to establish standards doesn’t make challenges disappear—it creates space for exploitation. Standards ensure that trust, transparency, and accountability remain at the core of the crypto ecosystem,” she noted during her closing remarks.

Next Steps

The conversation on standards will continue at upcoming international events:

• Vienna, October 2025: The 9th Global Conference on Criminal Finances and Cryptoassets, organized by the Basel Institute on Governance, UNODC, and Europol, where Diana will participate in a session on interoperable blockchain intelligence.
• Paris, February 2026: The Blockchain Intelligence Standardization Workshop, focused on launching concrete action steps and a roadmap for interoperability and standardization.

Blockchain Intelligence Professionals Association remains committed to working with global partners to transform complexity into clarity and to strengthen the foundations of trust, transparency, and accountability in blockchain intelligence.