Why Legacy AML Is Failing: The Strategic Move to Behavioral KYT
In 2025, TRM Labs pegged illicit crypto inflows at a record $158 billion. Even more concerning for compliance teams: over $60 billion of that value migrated rapidly from criminal wallets into legitimate services. This staggering volume highlights the sheer speed at which illicit actors now obfuscate their trail and “cleanse” funds through high-velocity exchanges and […]
Tax Planning Moves for Small Businesses and Solopreneurs
More solopreneurs now work with clients across borders, sell digital products, or offer services online. That shift has pushed many to look beyond traditional payment methods. Credit cards and bank transfers still dominate, but crypto payments keep showing up in conversations around speed, lower fees, and global reach. At the same time, crypto brings real […]
5 Real-World Compliance Failures That Led to Massive Penalties (2025-2026)
The cost of non-compliance has evolved from a risk-register line item to an existential threat. In 2025, global Anti-Money Laundering (AML) fines surged, with the cryptocurrency sector bearing the brunt. Total penalties for crypto firms exceeded $1 billion, significantly outpacing those in traditional banking ($200 million) and the payments sector ($160 million). This regulatory crackdown […]
From KYC to KYT: Navigating Behavioral Risk in Crypto Compliance
How prepared is your crypto platform for the next wave of compliance? With global crypto trading volumes now exceeding $20 trillion annually, the stakes have never been higher. The compliance landscape is evolving rapidly, and static defenses like Identification (ID) checks are no longer enough. In crypto, where funds move instantly, and identities are easily […]
AI-Powered Crypto Scams: Emerging AI Fraud Threats
Crypto scams didn’t get smarter. They got automated. In 2025, on-chain scams and fraud generated at least $14 billion in revenue. Operations linked to Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools were significantly more profitable, extracting far more per operation on average than those without. Reports also claim there have been higher average scam payments in 2025 versus […]
The Tiger Returns: How the FSC’s New Guidelines Reclaim South Korea’s Global Crypto Capital
For nearly a decade, South Korea’s crypto market was a lopsided engine: a massive, retail-driven power plant with no institutional steering wheel. While “crypto fever” drove retail volumes to global highs, a 2017 ban forced the nation’s corporate giants to watch from the sidelines. The cost of this vacuum was severe. In 2025 alone, $110 […]
Analyzing the 2026 U.S. Crypto Bill Impact on Global Asset Flows
The U.S. crypto landscape just shifted beneath our feet. On January 13, 2026, the Senate Banking Committee released a massive, 278-page manager’s amendment to the long-awaited crypto market structure bill. Aimed at bringing “certainty to the marketplace” and fulfilling the administration’s goal of making America the “crypto capital of the world,” the bill is a […]
Crypto Regulation Penalties 2026: Top Risk Areas for Firms
Crypto regulation penalties in 2026 will not come from one dramatic “gotcha.” They will come from ordinary workflows that fail under scale – onboarding that misses risk, monitoring that ignores alerts, marketing that overpromises, and custody that breaks when volume spikes. Regulators have made the pattern clear: they punish control failures that look routine inside […]
Understanding RegTech Solutions as the Key to Crypto Compliance & Security
Bitcoin almost doubled between late 2023 and late 2025, with major tokens swinging hundreds of billions of dollars in market value. With this level of capital at stake, regulators, banks, and exchanges have zero patience for “surprises” like scams, hacks, or money laundering. Behind the scenes, one family of tools keeps that chaos in check: […]
2025 Crypto Regulations Recap: The Year Rulebooks Rewrote the Global Market
2025 Crypto Regulations Recap: In 2025, the global race to regulate stablecoins concluded its first decisive lap. Jurisdictions worldwide transitioned from theoretical debates to enforcing concrete rulebooks, establishing the foundational legal and operational standards for digital currencies to function as global payment rails. This was not a story of restriction, but of construction—building the compliant […]
