FinancialCrime.org conducts independent investigations into systemic misconduct by financial institutions, cryptocurrency businesses, brokers, custodians, and other intermediaries — with a particular focus in recent years on crypto exchanges, dark web laundering infrastructure, and digital asset service providers. The investigations published here are a small subset of the cases we have worked on — the ones where the terms of resolution permitted us to discuss the findings in anonymised form.
Many of our investigations remain entirely confidential. They span areas including crypto swapping and mixing services, exchange compliance failures, escrow and trust companies, wealth advisory firms, custody banks, brokerage execution practices, and institutional fiduciary arrangements. In several cases, our work led directly to regulatory action, corporate settlements, and material changes in how the firms in question operate. Those outcomes are documented in regulatory files and settlement agreements, not on this page.
What we publish here follows a consistent methodology: identify a pattern across multiple clients or counterparties, quantify the harm, build a regulator-ready evidentiary file, and — once the matter is resolved — write up the case in enough detail that compliance professionals, regulators, and affected individuals can learn from it. Names and identifying details are changed. The mechanics, the evidence trail, and the outcomes are real.
If you have information about conduct that looks systemic — the same harm, repeated the same way, across multiple customers — we would like to hear about it.
