FATF Recommendation 15, the Travel Rule, and Hong Kong's VASP regime — applied to the practical problem of doing customer due diligence on a blockchain.
Virtual assets broke a set of assumptions that anti-money laundering rules were built on. Value moves without an intermediary, wallets are pseudonymous, and a counterparty may sit in a jurisdiction with no equivalent regime. The international response has been to extend existing obligations rather than invent new ones — which leaves firms to work out how familiar duties apply to unfamiliar rails.
This course covers the international baseline first: FATF Recommendation 15, the definition of a virtual asset service provider, and the Travel Rule obligation to pass originator and beneficiary information alongside a transfer.
It then turns to Hong Kong, where virtual asset trading platforms are licensed under both the Securities and Futures Ordinance and the AMLO. The final section is operational: risk-based customer due diligence and enhanced due diligence for virtual assets, blockchain analytics and wallet screening, sanctions exposure, and suspicious transaction reporting where the underlying activity is on-chain.
Part 1
FATF Recommendation 15, the VASP definition, the Travel Rule, and mutual evaluation expectations.
Part 2
Licensing of virtual asset trading platforms under the SFO and AMLO, and the obligations that follow.
Part 3
Risk assessment, CDD and EDD for virtual asset customers, source of funds, and ongoing monitoring.
Part 4
Blockchain analytics, wallet and sanctions screening, typologies and red flags, and suspicious transaction reporting.
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Course fee
HKD 500
