AML, KYC & Financial Crime
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Elliptic

Elliptic provides blockchain analytics and crypto financial crime compliance to banks, crypto businesses, payment firms, regulators and law enforcement, scoring wallets and transactions in real time against sanctions, ransomware, darknet and other illicit exposure across more than 65 blockchains and more than 250 bridges, with screening, entity due diligence, cross chain investigation and ecosystem monitoring products. The Elliptic Copilot drafts alert narratives and the Decode Agent answers on chain risk questions with its reasoning shown.

Its newer work follows digital assets into mainstream banking, including due diligence on stablecoin issuers for banks holding reserve assets and detection of crypto exposure inside conventional fiat transaction flows.

Last VerifiedOctober 2, 2026
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Founded
2013
Headquarters
London, England, United Kingdom
Website
www.elliptic.co
Categories
aml-kyc-financial-crime, compliance-and-surveillance, fraud-and-transaction-risk
Assessment

Capability Axes

Capability grades

15 of 15 axes rated · 9 graded A or B

AI Capability
AI Centrality
BB on AI CentralityThe models are the engine of a core capability, layered on a product that would still function without them as a rules or workflow system.
Vendor Published

More than a billion labeled addresses form the attributed data layer, with proprietary machine learning scoring risk on top and the Copilot and Decode Agent drafting narratives and answering questions. An attributed graph with rules based screening would survive without the models, and that is where much of the buyer value sits.

Autonomy and Oversight Model
AA on Autonomy and Oversight ModelWhat the system runs alone, what constrains it, and how a person checks it are all published: modes, thresholds, sampling or audit controls, and the route a case takes to human review.
Vendor Published

Escalation thresholds and a confidence figure per answer are not published. Routine screening and investigation run at machine speed while the customer's team governs every material decision: the copilot drafts the narrative behind an alert, analysts review and decide, and the query agent shows its query and reasoning so a result can be checked.

Model Risk Management and Transparency
BB on Model Risk Management and TransparencyReal transparency mechanisms are published, such as per alert explainability, confidence scoring or split testing, without the validation package or supervisory mapping behind them.
Vendor Published

Every agent output is grounded in attributed intelligence and carries its evidence and reasoning, with the Decode Agent showing the query behind each answer. Model documentation, validation summaries and false positive figures for the risk scores are absent, and support for a bank's own validation is not addressed.

Operational and Outcome Evidence
BB on Operational and Outcome EvidenceVendor aggregate claims with real figures, or audited scale disclosures from a publicly listed company.
Vendor Published

Revolut, Coinbase and UOB are named customers, while the figures, $3.1 million of efficiency at an unnamed global exchange and more than $45 million traced in Operation Atlantic, attach to descriptions rather than names. Coverage of 99 percent of trading volume measures the data, not who relies on it.

AI Safety and Data Stewardship
CC on AI Safety and Data StewardshipGeneral assurances that do not answer the question this axis asks, which is whether one customer’s data trains models serving its competitors. Unbounded cross client learning stated with no boundary grades here too.
Vendor Published

Crypto activity data, from wallet addresses to location records, is kept indefinitely, which openly makes screening data part of a permanent intelligence layer serving every customer. What one customer's submissions contribute to another's results has no stated boundary.

Regulatory and Compliance
GLBA and Data Privacy Posture
BB on GLBA and Data Privacy PostureA substantive privacy document that reaches the product itself, short of the subprocessor list or the full data handling detail.
Vendor Published

Service providers go unlisted, and a bank's fiat customer payment data, which the exposure detection product ingests, is not addressed. Product data still falls under the privacy notice, which names Elliptic Enterprises Limited as controller and sets out data subject rights with a data protection officer contact and its Information Commissioner's Office registration.

Security Certifications and Trust Center
BB on Security Certifications and Trust CenterA recognized certification named in the vendor’s own material without the artifact, or with a scope or renewal question the buyer has to raise.
Vendor Published

The SOC 2 audit period goes unstated, but the rest is unusually complete: ISO 27001 from Schellman, scoped to information asset and data management including client data, sits beside ISO 22301, ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and a SOC 2 Type 2 report covering all five trust services criteria, with live security posture and documentation reviewable through its trust center.

Regulatory Status and Licensure
BB on Regulatory Status and LicensureThe regulatory position is clearly stated and appropriate to the product, with part of the verification left to the buyer.
Vendor Published

Financial Action Task Force guidance and travel rule implementation are the standards product design maps to, from a technology supplier with no license claimed. Governments and regulators buy alongside the institutions they supervise, a split disclosed openly as separate segments.

AI Governance and Bias Disclosure
CC on AI Governance and Bias DisclosureResponsible artificial intelligence committed to in policy language with no evaluation behind it, on a product whose bias surface is modest.
Vendor Published

A flagged wallet can mean a frozen withdrawal or a closed account for someone with no relationship to the vendor, and a published argument against wholesale de risking acknowledges that false positives cost something. Accuracy by population and an independent audit of the attribution method are unpublished.

AI Liability and Recourse
CC on AI Liability and RecourseMechanisms that enable challenge, such as audit trails and source traceability, with nothing standing behind the output and no route for the person affected.
Vendor Published

Agent calls are each recorded, giving a customer what it needs to challenge a result, yet no accuracy guarantee, error rate or indemnity is published. Data subject rights cover personal data, which is not the same as a route for a wallet holder labeled in error to have the attribution corrected.

Integration and Deployment
Model Supply Chain Disclosure
CC on Model Supply Chain DisclosureThe architecture is described and no provider is named.
Vendor Published

Expert sourced threat intelligence puts human research inside the chain, and protocol level integrations show where chain coverage comes from. Service providers under data processing agreements, the hosting provider and the model behind the Copilot and Decode Agent are all unnamed.

Core Systems and Integration Depth
BB on Core Systems and Integration DepthNamed systems or a documented public API, with the depth or the production evidence left open.
Vendor Published

Core banking, case management and exchange platform integrations go unnamed. Public application programming interface (API) documentation, a service status page and 99.9 percent uptime sit beside bulk data delivery, so an institution can call the service or ingest the intelligence into its own systems, and the AI tools run both in product and through the API.

Deployment Model and Data Residency
CC on Deployment Model and Data ResidencyCloud only with nothing stated, which is the category norm.
Vendor Published

Cloud delivery runs from a UK base to institutions and public sector users worldwide, with no hosting provider or region named. Transfers outside the UK and European Economic Area are permitted by the privacy notice without a stated mechanism, and no separate environment for government work is described.

Commercial
Commercial Transparency
CC on Commercial TransparencyNo price is published and engagement runs through a demo form, which is the norm in this index.
Vendor Published

Price stays behind demo requests, and neither of two buying aids discloses what the service costs. Those aids are a free compliance efficiency calculator and a published set of questions to put to any provider about on chain risk.

Institution and Segment Coverage
AA on Institution and Segment CoverageThe financial segments served are named and each carries its own maintained material, whether the coverage is broad or deliberately narrow.
Vendor Published

Banks, crypto businesses and law enforcement each get separate material, among five buyer types, and banks have their own AI agents page. Newer work follows digital assets into conventional banking through stablecoin issuer due diligence and detection of crypto exposure in fiat flows, across more than 65 blockchains and bridges.

Tracked Since Listing

Product updates

Material product, regulatory, evidence and commercial changes at Elliptic, each verified against a live source and tagged to the capability axis it bears on. Funding rounds and awards are not product changes and are not logged.

Sep 24, 2026Product / capability

Elliptic launched Pulse, an AI tool that lets a frontline law enforcement or government officer enter a wallet address or transaction hash and get a plain language risk summary showing the triggered rules, detected entities, exposure and flow of funds. One click escalates the full analysis, reasoning and field notes, tagged with a case number, into Elliptic Lens for screening and Investigator for tracing. Pulse is available now to law enforcement and government agencies.

Bears on: Autonomy and Oversight ModelSource
Sep 17, 2026Product / capability

Elliptic launched Decode, an AI agent built on its blockchain intelligence platform that answers natural language questions about cryptoasset addresses and their exposure. Every answer carries Thinking Steps showing how the question was interpreted and the query that produced it, and Elliptic states the same question against the same data reaches the same conclusion. Elliptic positions it as the first solution built to the Elliptic Standard, published a week earlier. It is live with government customers, with private sector availability stated for later in the year.

Bears on: Model Risk Management and TransparencySource
Our read on these updates →Tracked since Sep 2026
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Commercial

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November 5, 2026
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