Friday, March 9, 2018

Assessing the Impact of Blockchain on Anti-Money Laundering (AML)

Friends, Blockchain provides users with a digital public record of Bitcoin transactions (the digital currency through which these transactions are conducted) that have been executed by a particular entity. It is inherently difficult for hackers to manipulate. Copies of the Blockchain are distributed across potentially thousands of participants in the database. The results is that hackers would have to individually access and manipulate every single copy of the distributed Blockchain. Leveraging a Blockchain platform for AML nationwide or across a geographical region will give regulators, auditors and other stakeholders an effective and powerful set of tools to monitor complex transactions and immutably record the audit trail of suspicious transactions across the system. We believe that Blockchain applied to AML has great potential benefit to the banking and securities institutions such as the US SEC and FINRA. And in turn, may also help impede nefarious transactions of state-sponsored terrorism and mitigate strategies intended to subvert economic sanctions placed on Russia, Iran and North Korea. Send us your views. Lawrence, Cryptocurrency Academy (https://cryptocurrencyacademy.blogspot.com)

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