Financial technology, reconstructed and explained.
Digital banking forensics traces transactions across cryptocurrency, blockchain, and conventional financial systems, and reconstructs what a platform actually did — for disputes, regulatory examinations, and enforcement matters centered in New York's financial sector.
Financial technology disputes are technical disputes wearing financial clothing. Whether a transaction settled, whether a control operated as documented, whether funds moved through a chain of wallets to a particular destination — these are questions answered from ledgers, logs, and system records, not from summaries of them.
We work for financial institutions, fintech companies, and the counsel and regulators who examine them, combining blockchain tracing with conventional forensic and compliance analysis. Our team includes professionals who built and led digital-asset enforcement work inside the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and who have investigated complex financial crime from the government side.
What we deliver
- Blockchain & cryptocurrency tracing
- Financial-compliance review
- Fintech dispute support
- Digital-asset advisory
- Transaction reconstruction
- Regulatory readiness
How the engagement runs
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Scoping the financial question
We define precisely what must be proved — where funds went, whether a control operated, what a system recorded — because financial data is vast and undirected analysis is expensive.
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Data acquisition
On-chain data, platform logs, transaction records, and internal system artifacts are collected together. On-chain evidence alone rarely identifies a party without the off-chain record.
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Tracing and reconstruction
Flows are traced across wallets, venues, and institutions, and transaction sequences are reconstructed against the platform's own records to establish what actually occurred.
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Findings and testimony
Results are documented for counsel, the board, or a regulator, with expert testimony available where the analysis is contested.
Why the jurisdiction matters
New York regulates financial technology more closely than most jurisdictions. The Department of Financial Services administers both a virtual-currency licensing regime and a cybersecurity regulation applicable to covered financial institutions, and New York's courts and arbitral forums handle a large share of the country's significant fintech disputes.
We work in that environment routinely, for both the institutions being examined and the parties disputing with them.
Digital Banking — common questions
On public blockchains, transaction flows are traceable, and tracing them across wallets and services is well-established work. Attributing an address to a real-world party is the harder half, and it usually depends on off-chain evidence — exchange records, device artifacts, and communications — rather than the chain alone.
Both. Compliance review, control assessment, and regulatory readiness on one side; dispute support, transaction reconstruction, and expert testimony on the other. The underlying analytical work is largely the same — the difference is who will be testing the conclusion.
Mixers and cross-chain bridges complicate tracing but do not automatically end it. What is achievable depends on the specific service, the volumes involved, and the surrounding evidence. We give a realistic assessment of what a trace is likely to establish before the work is commissioned rather than after.
Yes. Our team includes professionals who served in senior roles at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission — including its Cyber Unit, FCPA Unit, and FinHub — and a former FBI Special Agent who spent over two decades on complex financial crime.