MiCA and Crypto Compliance
Crypto-assets and digital finance offer opportunities for financial institutions and businesses, alongside regulatory, compliance and financial crime risks.
The EU Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) regulates crypto-assets, issuers and Crypto-Asset Service Providers (CASPs). Organisations operating in, serving or gaining exposure to this ecosystem need to understand its implications for regulatory obligations, governance, risk management and compliance controls.
The Sigma Risk MiCA and Crypto Compliance Masterclass provides a practical understanding of MiCA, wider crypto regulation, compliance and financial crime risks.
Why take this course?
Effective crypto compliance goes beyond blockchain and individual regulations: it connects products, regulatory obligations, customer risk, transaction flows, financial crime typologies and controls.
This masterclass builds practical skills to identify, assess and manage crypto-related regulatory and financial crime risks.
Regulatory guidance, practical examples and interactive discussion cover MiCA, CASPs, stablecoins, customer and transaction risk, financial crime vulnerabilities, governance and compliance controls.
Participants gain a holistic view of the crypto ecosystem and learn to translate regulatory requirements into proportionate, risk-based compliance frameworks.
MiCA marks a major shift in EU crypto regulation, harmonising requirements for crypto-asset issuance and services. It covers authorisation, governance, transparency, disclosure, consumer and investor protection, operational arrangements and market integrity.
The masterclass places MiCA in the practical context of crypto compliance and financial crime risk management. Participants explore crypto-asset categories, including asset-referenced and e-money tokens, and CASP requirements. The course examines money laundering, terrorist financing, sanctions exposure, anonymity-enhancing technologies, transaction monitoring challenges and blockchain analytics.
Practical examples, scenarios and discussions help participants identify crypto risks and develop proportionate governance, customer due diligence, monitoring, escalation and compliance controls.
- Compliance Officers and Crypto Compliance Professionals
- AML, Financial Crime and Investigation Professionals
- Money Laundering Reporting Officers (MLROs)
- KYC and Customer Due Diligence Professionals
- Risk Managers and Internal Audit Professionals
- Regulatory and Legal Professionals
- CASP, Banking and Payments Professionals
- Senior Managers responsible for crypto and digital-asset risk
- Crypto-asset and distributed ledger technology fundamentals
- The crypto regulatory landscape and MiCA’s scope and key requirements
- MiCA crypto-asset classifications, including Asset-Referenced Tokens (ARTs) and E-Money Tokens (EMTs)
- CASP authorisation and regulatory obligations
- Governance, compliance, transparency and disclosure requirements
- Consumer and investor protection, market integrity and market abuse
- Crypto AML/CFT risks, financial crime typologies and red flags
- Customer risk assessment, due diligence and enhanced due diligence
- Crypto transaction monitoring, blockchain analytics and transaction tracing
- Crypto-related sanctions risks
- Risk-based controls and effective crypto compliance frameworks
- Regulatory escalation, reporting and critical decision-making
Delegates of this masterclass shall be assessed through a multiple-choice test at the end of the training session. Upon successful completion of this masterclass, delegates will be awarded the Sigma Risk certification.
This masterclass may be delivered in person at client premises, at external location or virtually via Zoom or MS Teams.
Full Suite of Sigma Risk Masterclasses
• Understand applicable regulations
• Third party risk assessment
• Managing conflict of intrest
• Identify key AML risks
• Conduct AML risk assessment
• Build a robust methodology
- Correct level of due diligence
- Identification and verification
- Corroboration of source of wealth
- Learn about complexity & reliance
- Downstream banking and nesting
- Respondent risk assessment
- Preventing & recovering from a cyber attack
- Identify key threat actors
- Understand different types of cyber attacks
- Understand the risks in gaming
- Applicable regulatory requirements
- Proportionate risk assessment
• Understanding digital currencies
• Corroboration of SOF/SOW
• Financial crime risks
- Law enforcement collaboration
- Asset tracking and confiscation
- Suspicion activity reporting
- Recognize key sanctions regimes
- Establish screening & monitoring
- Escalations & reporting
- Attractiveness to Criminals
- Discover emerging typologies
- Identify red flags and warning signs
- Recognising key signs of terrorism funding
- Risk identification & mitigation techniques
- Learning from real-life case studies