The crypto sector paid over $500 million in AML fines in 2025. Compliance is not optional anymore.
FATF, MiCA, FinCEN, and the FCA have all reached the same conclusion: crypto exchanges are financial institutions and must operate like them. That means KYC, sanctions screening, transaction monitoring, and Travel Rule-aligned controls not eventually, but now. Sanction Scanner gives you the full compliance stack to meet that standard, from day one.
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Three things every crypto exchange now has in common with a bank.
The same KYC, screening, and monitoring rules that apply to banks now apply to you.
FATF Recommendation 15 brought crypto exchanges and VASPs under the same AML and CFT obligations as regulated financial institutions.
That means customer due diligence, sanctions screening, transaction monitoring, and suspicious activity reporting, not as best practice, but as legal requirements. The framework is the same. The expectations are the same. The penalties for non-compliance are the same.
MiCA authorisation is mandatory across all 27 EU Member States. FCA registration is required in the UK. FinCEN MSB status applies in the US. VARA governs operations in the UAE. Every major jurisdiction now requires crypto firms to demonstrate a functioning AML program before they can legally operate and regulators are withdrawing licences from firms that cannot prove their controls work.
Regulatory action against crypto firms no longer stops at fines. Licences are being revoked, banking relationships are being cut, and institutional investors are walking away from exchanges with weak compliance records. The commercial and regulatory consequences are now inseparable. A credible AML program is not just what keeps regulators satisfied — it is what keeps your business open, your banking rails accessible, and your institutional clients on board.
The rules governing crypto are no longer experimental. They are enforced.
Wallets linked to illicit activity handled over $50 billion in 2024. Cross-chain laundering moved $21.8 billion in illicit funds in 2025 alone. Regulators have responded with record enforcement actions, new licensing regimes, and the expectation that every VASP from centralised exchanges to custodians to stablecoin issuers operates with the same controls as a regulated financial institution. Sanction Scanner gives crypto firms the screening, monitoring, and customer risk infrastructure to meet those expectations without building a compliance team from scratch.
Compliance that moves as fast as your market does
Every module connects to your exchange infrastructure via API in days, not months.
Screen every user before they access your platform
Sanction Scanner screens users against 3,000+ global sanctions lists, PEP databases, and adverse media sources across 220+ countries in seconds, at onboarding. Data updated every 15 minutes means you are always working with current intelligence, not yesterday’s watchlist.
AML Screening →Monitor every transaction for suspicious patterns in real time
Transaction Monitoring gives your compliance team dynamic rules, risk-based scoring, and real-time alerts no coding required. Configure the scenarios relevant to crypto typologies: structuring, layering via multiple wallets, high-risk jurisdiction transfers, and rapid fund movement.
Transaction Monitoring →Screen both sides of every transaction automatically
Transaction Screening checks sender and receiver against global sanctions and watchlists in 150ms via API. For crypto firms processing high volumes across multiple rails, this is the operational foundation of Travel Rule-aligned compliance.
Transaction Screening →Risk-score every customer based on their actual behaviour
Customer Risk Assessment assigns dynamic scores based on geography, transaction behaviour, account activity, and more. Apply enhanced due diligence to the customers who actually warrant it, not uniformly across your entire user base.
Customer Risk Assessment →Re-screen your entire user base automatically, every day
Ongoing Monitoring re-screens every customer daily and alerts your team the moment a risk status changes. In a sector where sanctions designations can happen overnight and customer risk profiles evolve rapidly, daily automated re-screening is a baseline control.
Ongoing Monitoring →Live in days. Built for your architecture. Crypto platforms cannot afford lengthy compliance implementations. Sanction Scanner integrates via a RESTful API with webhook support, designed for the high-throughput architectures that crypto exchanges and VASPs operate. Uptime: 99.95%+. Most customers are live and screening within days of signing. No API integration fees. No server costs. No separate data subscription. Everything is included.
API Integration →Built for the frameworks that govern crypto compliance globally
From FATF Recommendation 15 to MiCA, FCA, and VARA Sanction Scanner maps to every major framework that applies to crypto exchanges and VASPs.
The global standard that extended full AML/CFT obligations to VASPs. Sanction Scanner’s tools are designed to satisfy Recommendation 15’s requirements for CDD, ongoing monitoring, and suspicious activity reporting.
Originator and beneficiary data collection and screening for transfers above threshold. Sanction Scanner’s transaction screening supports Travel Rule-aligned controls for cross-border crypto transfers.
MiCA requires CASPs to demonstrate AML/KYC frameworks as part of the authorisation file. Sanction Scanner’s audit trails and screening coverage support MiCA compliance documentation.
Real-time screening against SDN and OFAC Consolidated lists, with reporting support aligned to FinCEN requirements for virtual asset service providers classified as money services businesses.
Screening and monitoring tools designed to satisfy FCA registration requirements for cryptoasset firms and the AML controls expected of UK-registered VASPs.
Screening and customer due diligence tools aligned to VARA’s rulebook requirements for licensed virtual asset activities in Dubai and the UAE.
Build a compliance program regulators expect to see.
Book a demo with our team. We will show you how Sanction Scanner maps to your regulatory obligations whether you are operating under MiCA, FATF standards, FCA registration, or FinCEN requirements.
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