- Yves Mersch: Virtual or virtueless? The evolution of money in the digital age
Speech · 8 February 2018
Lecture by Mr Yves Mersch, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, at the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum, London, 8 February 2018.The views expressed in this…
- Hong Kong Customs Partner With University to Develop Cryptocurrency Tracing Tool
News · 17 June 2025
The initiative responds to rising virtual asset-related money laundering, with seven suspected cases totalling over HKD 9 billion detected since 2021 out of 39 reported money laundering incidents.…
- Consultation Paper on the Proposed AML/CFT
Requirements for Regulated Stablecoin Activities
Report, RFP · 27 May 2025
The HKMA has published draft guidelines for stablecoin issuers and anti-money laundering procedures following the enactment of stablecoin legislation, with responses required by the end of June. Key…
- Study on Embedded Supervision of Decentralised Finance
RFP · 10 May 2022
A pilot project to develop, deploy and test a technological solution for embedded supervision of decentralised finance (DeFi) activity. The project will seek to benefit from the open nature of…
- Detecting Anomalous Cryptocurrency Transactions: an AML/CFT Application of Machine Learning-based Forensics
Report · 1 January 2021
This paper focuses on the growing relevance of these techniques in a domain where their deployment impacts the traits and evolution of the sphere. In particular, this work o ers contextualized…
- Nigeria's Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) partners with Chainalysis to strengthen crypto fraud detection
News · 13 August 2025
The collaboration will leverage blockchain's immutable ledgers to trace illicit transactions and track fund flows across networks like Bitcoin and Ethereum. Speaking at a joint webinar, the SEC's…
- The Shape of Money Laundering: Subgraph Representation Learning on the Blockchain with the Elliptic2 Dataset
Report · 1 January 2024
Over the last few years, the development of graph neural networks (GNNs) has allowed the extension of deep learning methods to developments in scalable Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), this ap proach…
- The US Treasury seeks industry input on innovative tools to combat digital asset crime
RFP · 18 August 2025
The US Department of the Treasury has issued a public consultation under the GENIUS Act, seeking feedback on innovative methods for detecting illicit activity involving digital assets. The request…
- The Case of Diem: A Distributed Ledger Technology -based Alternative Financial Infrastructure Built by a Centralised Multisided Platform
Report · 2 November 2021
In pursuing its declared mission “to enable a simple global currency and financial infrastructure with a safe, secure and compliant payment system that empowers billions of people,” Diem encounters…
- Unstable coins: cryptoassets, financial regulation and preventing financial crime in the emerging market for digital assets
Speech · 5 March 2020
In this 2020 address at NYU School of Law, Therese Chambers, the FCA’s Director of Retail and Regulatory Investigations, outlines the UK’s approach to bringing the "radical" and "libertarian" world…
- Joint statement from UK financial regulatory authorities on sanctions and the cryptoasset sector
Report · 11 March 2022
In March 2022, following the invasion of Ukraine, UK financial regulators issued a joint statement clarifying that cryptoassets are subject to the same sanctions regulations as traditional assets.…
- Unstable coins: cryptoassets, financial regulation and preventing financial crime in the emerging market for digital assets
Speech · 6 March 2020
In this 2020 speech, Therese Chambers, the FCA’s Director of Retail and Regulatory Investigations, addresses the unique challenges posed by cryptoassets (such as Bitcoin and Ethereum) in the context…
- AML risk management platform for crypto and blockchain assets.
Solution
With the use of advanced blockchain-native the HM Government of Gibraltar through the Financial Services Commission, collaborated with Coinfirm, a SupTech vendor, to implement an AML platform to help…
- BERTH4ETH
Open Code
This GitHub repository houses code (TensorFlow version) and datasets for the paper "BERT4ETH: A Pre-trained Transformer for Ethereum Fraud Detection," accepted at ACM Web conference (WWW) 2023…
- Blockchain researchers use AI to spot cryptocurrency money laundering
News · 2 May 2024
Researchers from Elliptic, IBM Watson and MIT have explored subgraph representation learning in the context of complex networks, specifically focusing on analysing local structures (or shapes) within…
- Elliptic Plusplus
Open Code
This repository introduces a comprehensive applied data science approach to Bitcoin network fraud detection, leveraging the Elliptic++ dataset. Utilizing graph data, the repository employs four graph…
- Elliptic++
Open Data
The Elliptic++ dataset consists of 203k Bitcoin transactions and 822k wallet addresses to enable both the detection of fraudulent transactions and the detection of illicit addresses (actors) in the…
- ER-20 Log Dataset
Open Data
This dataset contains transactions data from normal and phishing accounts, de-anonymized for analytics in Ethereum fraud detection
- UK’s HMRC engages San Francisco-based ‘blockchain intelligence’ firm TRM Labs
News · 23 August 2024
HMRC is working with TRM Labs to help fight crypto-enabled money laundering. TRM Labs’ contract includes the provision of ‘analytical or scientific software’ and ‘investigation and security…
- United Kingdom’s HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) engages San Fransisco-based ‘blockchain intelligence’ firm TRM Labs.
23 August 2024
HMRC is working with TRM Labs to help fight crypto-enabled money laundering. TRM Labs’ contract includes the provision of ‘analytical or scientific software’ and ‘investigation and security…
- Hong Kong Customs partners with University of Hong Kong to develop cryptocurrency tracing tool
16 June 2025
The initiative responds to rising virtual asset-related money laundering, with seven suspected cases totalling over HKD 9 billion detected since 2021 out of 39 reported money laundering incidents.…
- Elliptic++
Open Data
The Elliptic++ dataset consists of 203k Bitcoin transactions and 822k wallet addresses to enable both the detection of fraudulent transactions and the detection of illicit addresses (actors) in the…
- Elliptic Plusplus
Open Data
This repository introduces a comprehensive applied data science approach to Bitcoin network fraud detection, leveraging the Elliptic++ dataset. Utilizing graph data, the repository employs four graph…
- BERTH4ETH
Open Code
This GitHub repository houses code (TensorFlow version) and datasets for the paper "BERT4ETH: A Pre-trained Transformer for Ethereum Fraud Detection," accepted at ACM Web conference (WWW) 2023…