Digital Asset AML & Financial Crime: Typologies, Analytics & Supervisory Expectations

This practical session explores emerging AML and financial crime risks associated with digital assets. Through real typologies such as mixers, chain-hopping, DeFi exploits, and privacy technologies, attendees gain insight into how illicit activity manifests on-chain. The session clarifies what blockchain analytics tools can and cannot detect, and provides guidance on ECDD, source-of-wealth assessments, and onboarding clients with digital wealth. It also explains how supervisors evaluate crypto AML frameworks during onsite inspections.

This webinar provides one-hour of CPD and offers insights and updates from a leading industry-expert speaker. 

Delegates places are interchangeable with colleagues from the same organisation.

Content

• Real AML typologies: chain-hopping, mixers, DeFi exploits, privacy coins

• Blockchain analytics: what it can detect (and what it absolutely cannot)

• ECDD, source of wealth/funds in digital contexts

• Managing client onboarding with digital wealth exposure

• How supervisors assess crypto-AML controls during onsite exams

Presenter

Ben Cooper Partner at TLT LLP

Ben leads TLT's economic crime compliance team and has over 20 years' experience advising governments, financial institutions, corporates and individuals on all aspects of economic crime. This includes advice on money laundering, sanctions, tax evasion, bribery and corruption, terrorist proliferation financing, corporate ethics, asset tracing, fraud, complex investigations and criminal proceedings. Ben also has extensive experience assisting clients to develop, implement and operate global economic crime compliance programmes utilising his experience in senior compliance roles for HSBC, Global Head of Financial Crime Functions and Global Head of AB&C. Ben also worked for the Asset Recovery Agency and Serious Organised Crime Agency (now the National Crime Agency) and so is uniquely placed to advise clients on handling enquiries and investigations from law enforcement agencies.