Virtual Assets, Blockchain Technologies and Cryptocurrency Intelligence Operations

Course overview

The rapid growth of virtual assets, blockchain-based financial services and cryptocurrency ecosystems has created new opportunities for legitimate financial activity while introducing increasingly complex challenges for financial intelligence, compliance and law-enforcement functions. Criminal actors may exploit virtual assets for money laundering, fraud, sanctions evasion, ransomware-related activity and other forms of financial crime.

This Virtual Assets, Blockchain Technologies and Cryptocurrency Intelligence Operations course provides participants with a practical understanding of the virtual-asset ecosystem and its relevance to financial intelligence and financial crime investigations.

The programme introduces blockchain architecture, cryptocurrencies, stablecoins, decentralised finance, virtual-asset service providers and cryptocurrency transaction flows. Participants will examine how cryptocurrency transactions are conducted, how funds move across blockchain networks and how intelligence can be developed from publicly available blockchain information.

The course also considers the operational, regulatory and investigative challenges associated with virtual assets and provides participants with a foundation for conducting cryptocurrency-related intelligence activities.

What you will be able to do

• Explain the fundamentals of blockchain technology and virtual assets
• Describe major cryptocurrency and digital-asset ecosystems
• Understand how cryptocurrency transactions are initiated, processed and recorded
• Identify major types of virtual-asset service providers
• Understand wallets, addresses, transactions and blockchain explorers
• Identify common cryptocurrency financial-crime risks and typologies
• Trace basic cryptocurrency transaction flows
• Identify potential indicators of suspicious virtual-asset activity
• Understand cryptocurrency intelligence collection methodologies
• Develop basic cryptocurrency intelligence profiles
• Assess virtual-asset-related information and intelligence
• Recognise operational, regulatory and investigative challenges associated with virtual assets

Who should attend

• Financial intelligence analysts
• Financial crime investigators
• Law-enforcement officers
• AML/CFT compliance professionals
• FIU personnel
• Regulatory and supervisory personnel
• Cybercrime investigators
• Intelligence officers
• Fraud investigators
• Virtual-asset compliance specialists
• Financial-sector risk professionals
• Customs and tax investigators

Course outline

Fees are per participant in US dollars and cover tuition, course materials and your certificate. Travel and accommodation are not included.