Cryptocurrencies Investigation and Compliance Centre – CICC
Since 2018, the National Institute for Research - Development in Informatics - ICI Bucharest, has played a key role in research and development in the fields of blockchain technology, asset tokenization and trading ecosystems.
Leveraging its capability and experience, ICI Bucharest, in a first of its kind public-private partnership with leading blockchain intelligence firm ChainArgos, has established the Crypto-Assets Investigation and Compliance Centre (CICC), to provide crypto-asset, e-money token and asset-backed token technology, investigation, impact assessment, analysis, and compliance services, tools, program design and implementation.
The CICC has also established a center for excellence in blockchain intelligence, and provides services in the following areas:
For Regulators and Policymakers
- crypto-asset, e-money token, and asset-backed token macroeconomic and financial stability impact assessment
- crypto-asset, e-money token, and asset-backed token licensing frameworks
- crypto-asset, e-money token, and asset-backed token tax, audit, and reporting program design and implementation
- crypto-asset and e-money token anti-money laundering (AML), counter-terrorism financing (CFT), and sanctions evasion, surveillance, supervision, and reporting framework
- central bank-issued e-money token (CBDC) macroeconomic and financial stability impact assessment
- asset-backed token technology, and supervisory and regulatory framework analysis
For Law Enforcement
- crypto-asset and e-money token transaction tracing for criminal investigations service, tools and reporting program design and implementation
- crypto-asset and e-money token transaction analysis for criminal organization relational and relationship identification
- crypto-asset and e-money token anti-money laundering (AML), counter-terrorism financing (CFT), and sanctions evasion, surveillance, supervision, service, tools and surveillance program design and implementation
Financial Institutions and Banks
- crypto-asset, e-money token, and asset-backed token business impact assessment and analysis
- e-money token and asset-backed token technology service, impact assessment and analysis
- crypto-asset and e-money token transaction tracing services for financial institutions and banks performing due diligence on customers
- crypto-asset, e-money token, and asset-backed token tax, audit, service, tools and reporting program design and implementation
- crypto-asset and e-money token anti-money laundering (AML), counter-terrorism financing (CFT), and sanctions evasion, surveillance, supervision, service, tools and reporting program design and implementation
Compliance
- crypto-asset and e-money token transaction tracing services for financial institutions and banks performing due diligence on customers
- crypto-asset, e-money token, and asset-backed token tax, audit, service, tools and reporting program design and implementation
- crypto-asset and e-money token anti-money laundering (AML), counter-terrorism financing (CFT), and sanctions evasion, surveillance, supervision, service, tools and reporting program design and implementation
The unique public-private partnership between ICI Bucharest and ChainArgos represents the best way to leverage technological, intelligence, and data-gathering resources, to very quickly develop blockchain intelligence capabilities.
About ICI Bucharest
Founded in 1970, the National Institute for Research & Development in Informatics - ICI Bucharest, is Romania’s foremost institute for research, development and innovation in information and communication technology (ICT).
Since its establishment, the Institute has been a key source of technology talent and ICT expertise, who through their research and development, continue to contribute to the growth of technology-driven solutions, both in Romania and abroad.
The Institute has implemented countless research and development projects with practical benefit, to support the development of the information society in Romania.
ICI Bucharest’s mission is to promote excellence in research and innovation, for the development of the knowledge-based economy in Romania and for better integration in the European and international research space.
About ChainArgos
ChainArgos is the blockchain intelligence firm best known for uncovering crypto exchange Binance’s $1.4bn BUSD stablecoin undercollateralization.
ChainArgos is able to provide unparalleled blockchain intelligence by focusing on the financial drivers of transactions, facilitating investigations and analysis centered on the economic value of transfers, and providing insight into the rationale behind specific flows.
The firm has been a constant source of cutting edge research and deep insight into blockchain transactions, from tracking illicit flows used to fund terrorism, to analyzing transaction patterns involving global scams, ChainArgos is internationally recognized as a leader in blockchain intelligence.
ChainArgos works with financial institutions, central banks, hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, regulators, law enforcement agencies, research institutes, universities, and crypto-asset service providers globally, and is trusted by top media outlets including Bloomberg, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fortune, Thomson Reuters, and the South China Morning Post.