Compliance Support for Crypto & VASPs

Keep pace with virtual asset regulations, strengthen financial crime controls, and manage wallet and transaction risks with support built around your business.

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Compliance Built Around Your Virtual Asset Business

Vertex Compliance works with virtual asset exchanges, broker-dealers, custodians, transfer providers, payment businesses, and other VASPs. We review how your business handles customer onboarding, wallet screening, blockchain monitoring, sanctions exposure, Travel Rule information, suspicious activity, and regulatory reporting.

We start with the services you provide and the way transactions move through your platform. That means looking at supported assets, customer types, wallet activity, jurisdictions, counterparties, and technology controls. The result is a compliance framework built around the risks in your operation, not a standard financial services template.

Key Compliance Challenges for Crypto & VASPs

Who Really Controls the Wallet?

Completing KYC does not always tell you who controls a wallet or where its funds came from. Customers may use several addresses, shared wallets, or accounts funded by someone else.

Sanctions Links Are Easy to Miss

A wallet may not appear on a sanctions list but could still be connected to a restricted person or service through earlier transactions. Those indirect links are much harder to spot.

Tracing Funds Across Blockchains

Funds can pass through mixers, bridges, exchanges, and dozens of wallet addresses within minutes. Following that trail and deciding whether it is suspicious takes more than a standard transaction alert.

Risk Can Change Overnight

A token, wallet, counterparty, or jurisdiction considered low risk today may not remain that way. Customer risk ratings can quickly become outdated if they are not reviewed against current activity.

Missing Travel Rule Information

Transfers sometimes arrive without complete sender or beneficiary details. The difficult part is deciding whether to pause, reject, or investigate the transfer while keeping an accurate record of that decision.

Compliance Services for Crypto & VASPs

VASP AML/CFT Framework

Build or strengthen an AML/CFT framework suited to exchanges, custodians, broker-dealers, transfer providers, and other virtual asset businesses. We review customer due diligence, wallet screening, transaction monitoring, sanctions controls, Travel Rule procedures, suspicious activity reporting, and record keeping. The framework is shaped around your licensed activities, supported assets, customer base, transaction flows, and regulatory jurisdiction, so policies match what happens on your platform.

Blockchain Transaction Monitoring

Review how your business detects and investigates risky wallet activity. We assess monitoring scenarios involving mixers, darknet exposure, stolen assets, scams, sanctioned addresses, rapid wallet movement, chain hopping, and high-risk counterparties. This includes alert thresholds, blockchain analytics, investigation steps, case records, escalation rules, and management reporting. The objective is to reduce weak alerts without allowing genuinely suspicious activity to pass unnoticed.

Travel Rule and Wallet Controls

Strengthen how originator and beneficiary information is collected, verified, transmitted, and retained for virtual asset transfers. We review Travel Rule procedures, hosted and self-hosted wallet checks, counterparty VASP due diligence, sanctions screening, failed data exchanges, and transaction holds. We also examine how employees deal with incomplete information, higher-risk counterparties, and transfers that require additional review before they can be processed or released.

Why Choose Vertex Compliance?

Built for Virtual Asset Operations

Our support reflects how exchanges, custodians, brokers, transfer providers, and other VASPs onboard customers, screen wallets, and process virtual asset transactions.

Stronger Blockchain Controls

We review wallet screening, blockchain analytics, alert thresholds, investigations, escalation, sanctions exposure, and the records supporting each compliance decision.

Clearer Risk Oversight

See where exposure sits across customers, tokens, wallets, products, transaction patterns, counterparties, delivery channels, and higher-risk jurisdictions.

Ready for Regulatory Review

Put your policies, risk assessments, customer files, monitoring records, Travel Rule controls, and internal decisions in order before regulators ask for them.

Frequently Asked Questions

We can review the entire AML/CFT framework or look at one area that is causing concern. This could be customer onboarding, wallet screening, blockchain monitoring, sanctions checks, Travel Rule compliance, suspicious activity reporting, or record keeping. We also check whether the process works outside the policy document. If employees are unsure what to do when a wallet alert appears or customer information does not add up, that is a compliance gap in itself.

Yes. A crypto exchange does not operate like a custodian, broker-dealer, or transfer provider, so using the same checklist for all of them would make little sense. We look at the services you provide, the assets you support, who your customers are, and how funds move through the platform. The review is then built around those details and the regulatory requirements that apply to your business.

Yes. We review how your system identifies links to mixers, scams, darknet markets, stolen funds, sanctioned addresses, and other higher-risk activity. Just as importantly, we look at what happens after an alert is generated. Your team should be able to show who investigated the alert, what they found, and why the transaction was cleared, held, or escalated. A blockchain analytics tool does not replace that judgement.

Yes. We look at how your business collects, checks, sends, and retains originator and beneficiary information. We can also review what happens when data is missing, a counterparty VASP does not respond, or a transfer involves a self-hosted wallet. The goal is to give employees a workable process for both routine transfers and cases that need a closer look.

You receive more than a list of problems. We explain what needs to change, why it matters, and which issues should be addressed first. Where needed, we can also help revise procedures, adjust customer risk ratings, improve monitoring scenarios, organise case records, and set clearer escalation steps. Support can continue until the agreed changes are in place.

Yes. The training is adjusted to the work each team performs. Onboarding employees may need help recognising inconsistent customer information, while monitoring analysts need to understand wallet exposure, alert handling, and escalation. Sessions use situations VASPs regularly face, including third-party funding, wallet hopping, mixer exposure, incomplete Travel Rule data, sanctions alerts, and transaction activity that does not match the customer’s stated purpose.