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Worldbox Launches VASP Entity Dataset to Complement Blockchain Analytics

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Worldbox Launches VASP Entity Dataset to Complement Blockchain Analytics

Worldbox Business Intelligence announced the launch of a dataset of company profiles for virtual asset service providers (VASPs), which are businesses that handle crypto assets for customers, such as exchanges, custodians, wallet providers and transfer services. The VASP dataset gives compliance teams information on the legal identity, ownership and control of these companies.

VASPs fall under the anti-money laundering standards of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), and therefore banks and fintechs that deal with them need to identify the company behind each one. Blockchain analytics tools can trace wallets and transactions, but they do not establish who owns or controls the company running a blockchain-based service. That information is held in company registries, filings and corporate documents.

FATF’s July 2026 update on virtual assets says jurisdictions still struggle to identify the natural and legal persons carrying out VASP activity, and that offshore VASPs remain a persistent challenge. Many of the jurisdictions with Travel Rule legislation, which requires VASPs to pass originator and beneficiary details along with transfers, have yet to take related supervisory or enforcement action. FATF also describes crypto-enabled illicit activity as increasingly complex and interconnected, including scam centre operations linked to organised crime.

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Licensing and authorisation regimes are one way of identifying VASPs. In Singapore, VASPs are licensed and regulated as digital payment token service providers, and the Monetary Authority of Singapore said that, out of close to 300 licence applications, 37 are currently licensed, with most of the rest rejected or withdrawn.


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