Rethinking Transaction monitoring

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We are inviting interested stakeholders from government, business, technology and the regulated sectors to a workshop held by the Blockchain Intelligence Professionals Association in Vienna on 13 of May 2026.

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This workshop marks a first step in that direction. It will provide a forum for authorities, businesses, and industry actors to share experiences, critically examine current practices, and explore new procedures that support the ongoing professionalization of the field.   Download agenda
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Topic of the workshop:

Rethinking Transaction Monitoring

Transaction monitoring has been for decades a standard AML/CFT requirement, but with the emergence of crypto-assets, being compliant with it has become particularly challenging.

While Crypto-Assets Service Providers (CASPs) appear to be the firms mostly dealing with crypto-assets and thus in need of scrutinising their transactions, also banks not dealing directly with crypto-assets should pay attention to monitoring transactions because of their indirect exposure to crypto-assets, through their clients.  

Financial institutions should in particular implement solutions to oversight crypto to fiat & fiat to crypto transactions by embedding blockchain analytics tools into their transaction monitoring systems.

However, current practices for identifying and measuring risks are often opaque, non-reproducible, and not verifiable by third parties. For example, what criteria determine whether a counterparty is considered high risk? Is there sufficient evidence to support assumptions about the origin of funds?  

 

Determining the origin of funds is likely the task most impactful task because it affects also financial institutions not dealing directly with crypto-assets, but onboarding anyway clients who have a nexus to crypto-assets. 

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Target participants:

  • Regulators & Policy makers
  • Financial Supervisory Authorities & Central Banks
  • Law enforcement
  • Market Crypto Intermediaries & TradFi institutions
  • Academia & Standards Bodies

The workshop will also provide an opportunity for sharing best practices on transaction monitoring, based on a proactive and predictive integration of blockchain analytics, enabling early detection of suspicious transactions patterns.

Questions to be answered

What is the best way forward to adopt dynamic risk scoring models that account for example of  DeFi exposure, privacy coin usage and cross-chain activity? 

How should compliance officers align internal compliance frameworks with FATF Travel Rule requirements and evolving crypto-asset regulation such as MiCA Regulation in the European Union?

As the field matures, news tandards are needed to move from ad hoc, vendor-specific assessments towards widely accepted risk metrics and assessment procedures.

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