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ComplyAdvantage Publishes New Anti-Money Laundering Guide Designed For Growing Crypto FirmsThe New Guide Provides A Practical, Much Needed Resource For Financial Compliance Professionals Working In The Crypto Industry In A Time Of Increased Regulation NEW YORK, May 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ComplyAdvantage, a global data technology company transforming financial crime detection, today announced the release of the company's new Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Guide for Crypto Firms. Cryptocurrencies are one of the most innovative and fastest growing sectors within the financial services landscape. According to Vantage Market Research, the cryptocurrency market was worth roughly $1,542.9 Million at the end of 2021 and is expected to reach $2,302.5 Million by 2028, with North America projected to dominate the worldwide cryptocurrency market. But as the demand for cryptocurrencies increases around the globe, policymakers foresee lax anti-money laundering compliance controls as one of the biggest potential vulnerabilities that crypto firms will face in the coming years. Non-compliance with anti-money laundering regulations presents a number of significant challenges for established and emerging crypto firms. While the exact nature of these will depend on the violation in question and the firm's business model, some of the risks include:
And the stakes for noncompliance are high. As Cornerstone Research noted in a recent report, as of year-end 2021 the SEC had imposed approximately $2.35 billion in total monetary penalties against digital asset market participants bringing a total of 20 enforcement actions related to cryptocurrency. Enforcement actions will continue to grow as will the size of fines for those firms with lack controls. "We've seen a huge uptick in new crypto services across our industry and within our own customer network which is extremely exciting. However, this dynamic growth has triggered increased regulatory scrutiny which crypto companies need to stay ahead of," said Charles Delingpole, Founder and CEO of ComplyAdvantage. As such, our team will continue to develop helpful resources including this guide and others such as our State of Financial Crimes 2022 Report or Evolving Use of Sanctions 2022 Guide to help guide growing financial firms through the global complexities of anti-money laundering regulations." Already the preferred choice of some of the world's largest banks, enterprises and high-growth fintechs, ComplyAdvantage uses machine learning and natural language processing to help regulated organisations manage their risk obligations and prevent financial crime. About ComplyAdvantage ComplyAdvantage is the financial industry's leading source of AI-driven financial crime risk data and detection technology. ComplyAdvantage's mission is to neutralize the risk of money laundering, terrorist financing, corruption, and other financial crime. More than 500 enterprises in 75 countries rely on ComplyAdvantage to understand the risk of who they're doing business with through the world's only global, real-time database of people and companies. The company actively identifies tens of thousands of risk events from millions of structured and unstructured data points every single day. ComplyAdvantage has four global hubs located in New York, London, Singapore and Cluj-Napoca and is backed by Goldman Sachs, Ontario Teachers', Index Ventures and Balderton Capital. Learn more at complyadvantage.com. View original content to download multimedia:https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/complyadvantage-publishes-new-anti-money-laundering-guide-designed-for-growing-crypto-firms-301550701.html SOURCE ComplyAdvantage |