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Why Top Digital Asset Businesses Choose 21 Analytics
Learn why top digital asset entities, like banks, exchanges, custodians and mining platforms choose 21 Analytics as their Travel Rule solution provider.
Is 21 Analytics’ Travel Rule Solution 100% GDPR Compliant?
Yes, 21 Analytics is 100% GDPR compliant. In addition, 21 Analytics aligns with ISO/IEC 27001 information security standards, ensuring a structured and risk-based approach to protecting sensitive data.
21 Analytics’ Travel Rule solution is designed with GDPR principles at its core. Importantly, the company never sees or stores your customer data.
The Travel Rule solution’s on-premises design ensures that all personally identifiable information (PII) remains within the CASP’s own infrastructure. Data is exchanged directly between counterparties in a peer-to-peer (P2P) manner via TRP or TRUST, with no central intermediary. This supports GDPR principles such as data minimisation, integrity, confidentiality, and accountability.
Because organisations retain full control over their environment, they can enforce jurisdiction-specific retention policies, manage cross-border data transfers in line with the GDPR’s Chapter V requirements, and meet regulatory reporting timelines. The product’s audit logs and reporting capabilities further support GDPR accountability obligations.
Did you know 21 Analytics is not only compliant with the GDPR? In fact, it meets the requirements of many global equivalents.
Which Crypto Businesses Rely on 21 Analytics’ Travel Rule Solution?
Due to customer confidentiality and privacy obligations, we are not able to publicly disclose the full list of organisations that use 21 Analytics’ Travel Rule solution and products, such as AOPP.
However, a small selection of entities can be found on our homepage.
21 Analytics’ clients span a broad spectrum of the digital asset ecosystem, including banks, cryptocurrency exchanges, brokers, custodians, payment providers, mining platforms, fintech firms, and Web3 investment companies. This diversity reflects the solution's flexibility and its ability to support diverse business models and regulatory environments.
We work with organisations across multiple jurisdictions and continents, supporting compliance in markets with varying regulatory requirements.
Why Does it Matter that 21 Analytics’ Travel Rule Solution Is On-premises?
An on-premises Travel Rule solution gives you full control over your customer data, infrastructure, and compliance processes.
With an on-premises setup, all personally identifiable information (PII) remains within your own servers. There is no third-party cloud provider storing or processing sensitive data. This reduces exposure to external breaches, limits third-party risk, and strengthens data sovereignty, which is increasingly important under frameworks such as the GDPR and DORA.
On-premises solutions also allow you to define and enforce your own security standards. This approach aligns with internationally recognised frameworks such as ISO/IEC 27001, which emphasise strong access controls, retention policies, risk management, and continuous monitoring.
You decide when data is deleted, how it is monitored, and how it is secured. This simplifies compliance with jurisdiction-specific data localisation and cross-border transfer requirements.
In addition, maintaining infrastructure internally reduces reliance on a provider’s uptime and removes additional points of failure. It also enhances audit readiness, as logs, records, and system data are directly accessible within your environment.
Why Does it Matter that 21 Analytics’ Travel Rule Solution Exchanges Data in a Peer-to-Peer Manner?
Peer-to-peer (P2P) exchanges are crucial for data protection as they eliminate unnecessary intermediaries from the exchange of Travel Rule data.
When personal data is routed through central hubs or third-party servers, each additional touchpoint increases the risk of interception, unauthorised access, or misuse. A P2P model ensures that originator and beneficiary information is transmitted directly between CASPs involved in the transaction, significantly reducing the attack surface and limiting exposure to external threats.
This structure also strengthens compliance with data protection requirements. By avoiding centralised data aggregation and ensuring that information is shared only with the intended counterparty, a P2P approach supports core principles under the GDPR framework.
In addition, direct CASP-to-CASP communication enhances operational efficiency. Transactions are processed securely and reliably without dependency on a central intermediary’s infrastructure, uptime, or governance model.
Does 21 Analytics’ Travel Rule Solution Work Globally?
21 Analytics’ Travel Rule solution was built and designed to meet continuously evolving regulatory requirements, regardless of jurisdiction.
We recognise that digital asset transactions are inherently cross-border. That is one of the defining characteristics of crypto: value moves seamlessly across jurisdictions, and compliance solutions must operate just as fluidly.
The solution aligns with the FATF Recommendations and is designed to operate in line with major regulatory frameworks, including FINMA in Switzerland, the EU Transfer of Funds Regulation (TFR), BaFin in Germany, FinCEN in the United States, VARA in Dubai, the FCA in the United Kingdom, and many other supervisory regimes. This ensures that compliance is not confined to a single market but is adaptable across regions.
21 Analytics’ client base spans the globe, demonstrating the solution's flexibility in meeting diverse regulatory requirements.