Financial establishments worldwide have reported 134,500 suspicious transactions regarding digital currencies up to now two years however thats simply the tip of the iceberg based on a report printed by blockchain forensics agency CipherTrace.

The report says the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has seen a significant improve in suspicious transaction experiences from establishments since publishing its May 2019

Despite this, CipherTrace asserts that many monetary establishments have developed insufficient home-grown programs for figuring out cryptocurrency-related accounts and transactions, that merely use lists of the names of crypto exchanges and digital asset service suppliers (VASPs) to flag transfers associations with cryptocurrency.

This technique results in many false positives and misses significant, large amounts of funds flows that cannot be discovered by home-grown name matching:

A typical name-based system might solely miss as much as 70% or extra of the crypto exchanges on the market, and as much as 90% of the particular transaction quantity

The report asserts that few monetary establishments display screen for exchanges exterior of the highest 100. Many crypto exchanges additionally function below a enterprise identify that differs from their branding, evidencing additional shortcomings of utilizing name-matching to flag crypto transactions.

CipherTrace advocates that banks use a monitoring system that seeks to trace the accounts related to peer-to-peer crypto exchanges and smaller digital forex kiosks, and cross-references the contact info of small VASPs with buyer data to flag suspicious actions.

CipherTraces report comes on the heels of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) inking a $249,900 contract with the agency Blockchain Analytics and Tax Software to develop its cryptocurrency tracing capabilities.

At the top of August, CipherTrace claimed it had developed a device for the US Department of Homeland Security that may hint transactions made within the privacy-coin Monero (XMR).