PwC: Your Partner for Forensic Excellence in Crypto Assets
Digital assets have arrived at the heart of the financial sector – offering tremendous potential while also introducing novel risks. Threats such as money laundering, fraud, sanctions evasion, market abuse, and cyberattacks are evolving rapidly within crypto ecosystems.
Simultaneously, regulatory pressure is intensifying though frameworks like the EU Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCAR), the EU Transfer of Funds Regulation (Travel Rule), the EU AML Regulation, the German Anti-Money Laundering Act (GwG), and broader international standards. We help you in navigating this complexity, building trust, and safeguarding your values.
Develop Your AML/CFT Target Operating Model for Crypto Assets
Anti-Financial Crime for Crypto Ecosystems: Effective and Scalable
Digital and crypto assets are transforming financial markets, business models, and organizational risk profiles. For financial institutions and Crypto Asset Service Providers, this evolution means: new business models are operating within a dynamic risk environment and under intense audit pressure.
Cross-chain flows, DeFi interactions, mixer and privacy services, and tokenization-increase the demands on prevention, detection, and response. At the same time, regulators and stakeholders expect resilient governance, effective controls, and audit-proof documentation.
Operationally, companies often face a threefold challenge: fragmented data across on-chain and off-chain sources, high false-positive rates in transaction monitoring, and limited resources for specialized cases like hacks, ransomware, or complex sanctions evasion.
PwC combines forensic investigative expertise, regulatory know-how and advanced data and blockchain analytics with a end-to-end approach that is specifically tailored to your business model. Starting point is a risk-based assessment of your crypto activities and a clear architecture for your AML/CFT-Target Operating Model: governance, policies, roles, and controls are designed in a way to ensure that KYC, KYT, the Travel Rule, and the specific requirements of MiCAR, the EU-AM- Regulation, and the German Anti-Money Laundering Act (GwG) work together seamlessly.
PwC offers distinct value: practical forensics, regulatory certainty, and modern data and blockchain expertise - delivered from a single source with global reach.
An Overview of Our Services
- AML/CFT-Target Operating Models
- Monitoring and Screening
- Regulatory Readiness
- Forensic Investigations
AML/CFT-Target Operating Models
Starting point is a risk-based assessment of your crypto activities and a clear architecture for your AML/CFT-Target Operating Model: governance, policies, roles, and controls are designed in a way to ensure that KYC, KYT, the Travel Rule, and the specific requirements of MiCAR, the EU-AM- Regulation, and the German Anti-Money Laundering Act (GwG) work together seamlessly. Furthermore, we strengthen third-party and CASP due diligence across your entire value chain through risk scoring, ongoing monitoring, and defined contractual standards.
Monitoring and Screening
To enhance transaction monitoring, we develop and calibrate typology-based scenarios and list-based systems that unify on-chain and off-chain data. Our approach includes validating models, defining performance metrics, and reducing false positives without compromising detection accuracy. This enables you to identify risks from interactions with CASPs and other market participants while making consistent decisions through clear procedures for escalation, blocking, documentation, and reporting.
Regulatory Readiness
We guide you through licensing and authorization processes, translating regulatory expectations into actionable processes while ensuring full auditability. Where gaps exist, we plan and manage remediation efforts efficiently, transparently, and measurably with a focus on your resources and time-to-compliance. These services are complemented by targeted training and awareness programs for both management and operational departments.
Forensic Investigations
We provide investigative capabilities for crypto-specific incidents. Our services include live asset tracing on the blockchain, coordination with exchanges, custodians, and law enforcement authorities, as well as eDiscovery for complex cases. Our primary objective is to minimize damage, increase recovery prospects, and integrate these insights back into your prevention and monitoring frameworks.
