Place/Date: Menlo Park, CA - May 3rd, 2021 at 1:00 pm UTC · 4 min read
Crypto.com has become the first cryptocurrency exchange to announce the use of CipherTrace‘s Traveler solution, the first commercial solution to enable compliance with global Anti-Money Laundering (AML) travel rule laws.
CipherTrace released Traveler in March in anticipation of increasing global enforcement of travel rule laws intended to prevent money laundering in cross-border cryptocurrency transactions. Traveler is designed to support virtual asset service providers (VASPs), including cryptocurrency exchanges, custody providers, OTC trading desks, banks and other financial institutions, to achieve compliance with the local transpositions of and the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) travel rule recommendation.