Regulatory Directory

Regulators & Enforcement Authorities

The curated library: international bodies, blockchain tooling, local analysis and case-law databases for white-collar work. For the EU, UK and Swiss authorities themselves — regulators, FIUs, enforcement and courts — use The Atlas, where each is listed with what changed. For courses and guides, see Training.

International

FATF — Financial Action Task Force

Global standard-setting body for anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing.

Basel Committee on Banking Supervision

Sets global standards for prudential regulation of banks.

Transparency International

Global coalition against corruption, publishing the annual Corruption Perceptions Index.

OECD Anti-Bribery Convention

International convention on combating bribery of foreign public officials in business transactions.

Blockchain Analytics & the Travel Rule

New to this? The Blockchain & Travel Rule hub turns these into a guided path.

Etherscan

The standard Ethereum explorer. Transactions, addresses and tokens, with community labels for known exchanges and reported scams.

Blockchair

One search box for 40+ blockchains, including Bitcoin and Ethereum. No registration.

mempool.space

Open-source Bitcoin explorer. Clean, ad-free, trusted by the technical community.

Tronscan

The official TRON explorer. Use it to trace USDT (TRC-20) — the payment rail most often seen in investment fraud.

Solscan

The main Solana explorer. Transactions, wallets and token flows.

Arkham Intel

Links addresses to named exchanges, funds and individuals, and maps the flows between them. Free account required.

Breadcrumbs

Trace funds outward from a suspect address into a link chart fit for a report. Genuinely usable free tier.

FATF — Guidance on Virtual Assets and VASPs (2021)

The global guidance national travel-rule regimes follow (Recommendation 16, updated October 2021).

Regulation (EU) 2023/1113

The EU's travel-rule law. Identity data must accompany transfers of funds and crypto-assets — applicable since 30 December 2024.

FINMA Guidance 02/2019

The Swiss position: the travel rule applies to blockchain payments, with no exemption for unhosted wallets.

FCA — Travel Rule expectations

What the FCA expects of UK crypto firms under the travel rule, in force since 1 September 2023.

IVMS101 (interVASP)

The standard data format VASPs use to exchange originator and beneficiary information.

Local & Offline Analysis

These run on your own machine — nothing you load into them leaves it.

KNIME Analytics Platform

A visual workbench for cleaning, joining and analysing spreadsheets without code. Its AI extension can prompt a language model running on the same machine.

GPT4All

Runs language models privately on an ordinary desktop — no cloud, nothing leaves the machine. LocalDocs answers questions over your own PDF and text files.

AnythingLLM

A document workspace over a local model: load PDFs and Word files and question them. Runs entirely on your own computer.

Jan

An open-source chat app for local models. Everything runs on the device when you want it to.

LM Studio

A polished desktop app for downloading and running open models on an ordinary laptop. Local sessions never leave the device; its cloud add-ons are a separate, explicit choice.

Ollama (with Open WebUI)

The standard engine for running models locally, usually paired with Open WebUI as a self-hosted interface with a documented offline mode. For the technically comfortable.