Fintech, Blockchain & Digital Assets

Analysing your transactions registered in a distributed ledger

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Forensic Services

Emerge stronger from disruption

Forensic Technology Solutions

Managing electronic data to navigate the legal and business processes

AML, KYC & Sanctions Compliance

Experience-led services to identify and mitigate financial crime risk

Financial Crime Managed Services

We all have a role to play to mitigate financial crime

Manage risks associated with crypto currencies and other blockchain applications

Distributed ledger technologies have the power to change the way individuals and entire societies interact and do business. We help companies to gain trust in these technologies and provide insights enabling all participants to make educated decisions. Our team of blockchain experts brings together the deep technical understanding of the various blockchain networks as well as the know-how to interpret transaction patterns and transaction flows that can be analysed on public blockchains. We maintain copies of the most important public distributed ledgers and have developed Blockchain Facts, a suite of tools and services to interrogate public blockchains. Our solutions allow us to understand relationships between actors and related transaction patterns in real-time for risks predictions, outlier detection and pattern analysis.

Increasing regulatory pressure and the transformation of many public blockchain ecosystems into integral parts of the very same financial system that they were supposed to replace increases the demand for blockchain forensics and blockchain analytics. To address these market requests, we brought our leading blockchain and analytics experts together and developed our in-house analytics platform Blockchain Facts. This platform allows us to integrate Open Source Intelligence as well as proprietary data feeds with the public blockchain data to address the most pressing needs of our clients. For a confidential discussion that can lessen your risks from interacting with public blockchains or from accepting digital assets in your business, please get in touch for more details.

Services and solutions

PwC’s Blockchain Facts is a universal public blockchain analytics platform. It maintains a copy of each supported blockchain and with each new block adds the latest transactions to a central data warehouse. Using an abstract API, custom applications can interrogate the data warehouse to perform analysis tasks. We are developing and maintaining a growing set of custom transaction tracers, behavioural analysers, clustering algorithms and outlier detection modules.

Our analysis platform.

Core features

Bespoke data analytics functionalities for fund tracing and transaction analysis
Continuous analysis of all transactions on the blockchain
Monitoring of selected addresses with alerts for suspicious or unusual transactions on the blockchain
Classification and grouping of addresses and transactions

Flow of fund analysis

Understanding where crypto funds came from or went to can be a tedious task
Explore complex transaction graphs involving thousands of connected addresses and extract the important facts out of the background noise of irrelevant information
Analyse transactional behaviours to identify suspicious activities
Find traces of illicit activities related to transactions

On-boarding of clients with crypto asset

Support corroboration of information provided by prospect business partners of our clients during onboarding
Compile comprehensive fact reports that lay out the transaction profile the target addresses
Provide all the necessary information to assess if the transaction history is in line with the provided source and journey of wealth description.

Monitoring a stablecoin

Help issuers with monitoring transactions in the secondary market
Ensure clearly documented audit trails and decision paths in multidisciplinary reviews
Provide comfort on the transaction history of a set of issued coins Help issuers with monitoring transactions in the secondary market
Ensure clearly documented audit trails and decision paths in multidisciplinary reviews
Provide comfort on the transaction history of a set of issued coins

“From prospect onboarding and source of wealth corroboration to fraud and financial crime investigations, our experienced team uses proprietary analytics technology to find the facts our clients are looking for.”

Sebastian AhrensDirector, Forensic Services, PwC Switzerland

Visualising the complete picture

Complex transactions traces with hundreds or thousands of transactions are difficult to understand if not visualised as a transaction graph. We have integrated a number of the latest visualisation technologies into Blockchain Facts. This helps us to turn information into actionable insight for our clients.