Elliptic

CoinFlash

Elliptic Hires Former Revolut CFO as It Prepares for Asia Expansion

David MacLean will oversee the crypto tracer's finance and personnel operations.

News  ·  11 August 2020
CoinFlash

P2P Exchange LocalBitcoins Adds Crypto Surveillance Tools From Elliptic

Elliptic's tracing software bolsters the peer-to-peer exchange's anti-money laundering safeguards.

News  ·  28 July 2020
Regulation

CoolBitX and Elliptic Team Up to Offer Crypto Firms Compliance Tools

Elliptic and CoolBitX will provide a package of their respective solutions to crypto firms such as exchanges needing to stay in compliance with regulators.

Policy & regulation  ·  21 July 2020
CoinFlash

IRS Seeks Elliptic’s Crypto Tracing Software in Response to COVID-19

President Donald J. Trump invoked the Stafford act in March, authorizing federal agency funding.

News  ·  17 July 2020
Chainalysis

Elliptic Follows Chainalysis in Adding Zcash to Monitoring Platform

Elliptic, the blockchain analysis company, has added privacy coins zcash and horizen to its monitoring platform.

Business  ·  30 June 2020
Bitcoin

Bitcoin ATM Growth May Be a Boon for Money Launderers

Crypto analytics company CipherTrace found bitcoin ATMs are increasingly being used to send funds to "high-risk exchanges" suspected of facilitating illicit activity.

Policy & regulation  ·  24 June 2020
Banking

Crypto-Friendly Arival Bank Is Launching Today for Those Willing to Disclose Their Bags

After two years of laying groundwork, crypto-friendly Arival Bank is launching in beta Thursday. But there’s a catch: Clients must disclose all wallets.

Business  ·  4 June 2020
Elliptic

‘Financial Surveillance’ or ‘Blockchain Analysis’? Human Rights Foundation Debates Elliptic

Blockchain analysis is "a euphemism" for surveillance, HRF Director Alex Gladstein told Elliptic's Tom Robinson during a debate on crypto tracing Monday.

News  ·  2 June 2020
Elliptic

Blockchain Sleuthing Firm Elliptic Adds 87 Crypto Assets in Arms Race With Chainalysis

Crypto sleuthing firm Elliptic has added 87 new tokens to its analytics offering, expanding its reach to 97% of digital assets by trading volume.

Business  ·  20 May 2020
Investments

Wells Fargo Invests $5M in Startup Connecting Crypto Exchanges and Banks

Banking giant Wells Fargo is backing blockchain forensics firm Elliptic.

Business  ·  13 February 2020
Elliptic

Crypto Analytics Firm Elliptic to Tell US Congress Privacy Coins Need Stricter AML Rules

Elliptic head of policy Liat Shetret will recommend that the U.S. push for greater enforcement of anti-money laundering regulation of crypto exchanges, including for traders using privacy coins, in a Congressional hearing on human trafficking.

News  ·  15 January 2020
Crime

Crypto Sleuthing Firm Elliptic Raises $23 Million in Fundraise Led by SBI

Blockchain forensics firm Elliptic has raised $23 million in Series B round led by Tokyo-based financial institution (and XRP holder) SBI.

Policy & regulation  ·  4 September 2019
Exchanges

Binance’s Compliance Drive Continues With New Elliptic Partnership

Binance has partnered with blockchain analytics startup Elliptic to combat money laundering as it continues to expand.

Policy & regulation  ·  2 May 2019
Banking

A New Tool Might Finally Make Banks Comfortable With Bitcoin

A new service from crypto monitoring firm Elliptic is aimed to help banks better scrutinize new bitcoin businesses.

Business  ·  19 April 2017
Crime

Elliptic Partners With LexisNexis on Bitcoin Analysis

Blockchain analytics startup Elliptic has integrated with LexisNexis, a move that provides the startup’s clients with access to the vendor’s global money laundering database. The hope, the companies say, is to provide financial services firms with data on bitcoins transactions so that they can avoid interacting with parties tied to money laundering or other perceived to illicit activities. “By […]

Business  ·  3 August 2016