Reporting suspicious crypto activity
Bridging supervisory expectations and operational realities
This report summarises discussions at “Crypto STRs in practice: bridging supervisory expectations and operational realities”, a breakout session organised by the Wolfsberg Group and the Basel Institute on Governance at the 2026 Global Conference on Criminal Finances and Cryptoassets.
This workshop brought together supervisors, FIUs, financial institutions and cryptoasset service providers to discuss the practical challenges of cryptorelated suspicious transaction and activity reporting (STR/SAR) and how its effectiveness can be improved.
Disclaimer: The report is an informal summary of workshop discussions. It does not represent or imply a common position of workshop participants and has not been adopted, endorsed or approved by the institutions with which individual organisers, moderators or participants are affiliated. Nothing in the report should be interpreted as defining the applicable legal threshold for suspicious transaction or activity reporting, or as legal, regulatory, supervisory or compliance guidance.
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Basel Institute on Governance and The Wolfsberg Group. 2026. “Reporting suspicious crypto activity: Bridging supervisory expectations and operational realities”. Available at: https:/