Hitachi to launch anti‑money‑laundering monitoring service for crypto assets in October

Hitachi Ltd. announced that it will begin offering an anti‑money‑laundering (AML) monitoring service for digital‑asset transactions, including cryptocurrencies, stablecoins and NFTs, starting in October. The service comprises three core functions: post‑transaction monitoring, real‑time pre‑transfer risk evaluation, and continuous token‑monitoring of issued stablecoins and their transfers.

The solution was developed and piloted in collaboration with 17 Japanese financial institutions and crypto‑related firms under the Financial Services Agency’s FinTech experiment hub from March to May 2026. The trial demonstrated that sharing risk‑signal data across firms can identify high‑risk wallets and transaction pathways that would be difficult to detect individually, and that AI‑driven similarity analysis improves detection accuracy.

Hitachi plans to extend the model into an industry‑wide “AML Collaborative Centre” that will exchange wallet and transaction risk signals—without personal customer data—among participating banks and crypto businesses, aiming to speed up early‑stage investigations and reduce operational burdens.