See the organization behind the offenses.
Bring corporate records, financial activity, licensing data, and cross-border infrastructure into one view to expose what one criminal organization runs.
Problem
One organization can run many crimes.
Shared financial services join separate crimes.
Escrow marketplaces, underground banks, casinos, brokers, and mule accounts move value for otherwise unrelated criminal groups.
Legal businesses conceal the operating structure.
Hospitality, construction, real estate, banks, and casinos can hold the companies, licences, and assets behind the organization.
Pressure moves crews into new jurisdictions.
After a site or service is targeted, operators shift workers, wallets, domains, and settlement routes instead of ending the operation.
$103B+
Escrow and laundering network volume
On-chain volume received by Chinese-language escrow and money laundering networks in 2025. The total includes gray-market activity.
146
Individuals and entities designated
The footprint named in the coordinated US and UK action against Prince Group in October 2025.
Source: TRM Labs · Operation Prince
What is Ardence?
Ardence is an AI investigation platform built for all-source intelligence. For organized crime investigations, teams can connect members, companies, assets, offenses, and financial activity across jurisdictions.
How it works
Map the organization across crimes and jurisdictions.
Expand
Start with the known record and build outward to members, controllers, facilitators, companies, assets, wallets, services, and counterparties.
- Resolve named members, aliases, associates, and controlling figures
- Connect wallets, services, companies, and infrastructure
- Keep public authority records distinct from TRM attribution
Map
Compare corporate, property, casino, licensing, and financial records to test how the organization operates and conceals control.
- Link companies, directors, properties, licences, and operating sites
- Compare ownership and control signals across jurisdictions
- Connect business activity with accounts, counterparties, and financial flows
Trace
Separate criminal lines may touch the same marketplaces, brokers, exchanges, or settlement infrastructure. Follow those shared rails without collapsing the missions that own each case.
- Identify common brokers, services, marketplaces, and exchanges
- Trace payment and settlement paths across the organization
- Route each criminal line to the team with the relevant authority and expertise
Act
Keep the organization, operators, businesses, financial paths, intervention points, and sources together for the team positioned to act.
- Document the network structure and relevant jurisdictions
- Identify services, assets, accounts, and counterparties positioned for action
- Preserve the evidence, confidence, reasoning, and decision owner
Expand
Start with the known record and build outward to members, controllers, facilitators, companies, assets, wallets, services, and counterparties.
- Resolve named members, aliases, associates, and controlling figures
- Connect wallets, services, companies, and infrastructure
- Keep public authority records distinct from TRM attribution
Map
Compare corporate, property, casino, licensing, and financial records to test how the organization operates and conceals control.
- Link companies, directors, properties, licences, and operating sites
- Compare ownership and control signals across jurisdictions
- Connect business activity with accounts, counterparties, and financial flows
Trace
Separate criminal lines may touch the same marketplaces, brokers, exchanges, or settlement infrastructure. Follow those shared rails without collapsing the missions that own each case.
- Identify common brokers, services, marketplaces, and exchanges
- Trace payment and settlement paths across the organization
- Route each criminal line to the team with the relevant authority and expertise
Act
Keep the organization, operators, businesses, financial paths, intervention points, and sources together for the team positioned to act.
- Document the network structure and relevant jurisdictions
- Identify services, assets, accounts, and counterparties positioned for action
- Preserve the evidence, confidence, reasoning, and decision owner
Intelligence
Intelligence built for organized crime investigations.
TRM proprietary intelligence
Resolve the organization across jurisdictions.
Connect members, companies, directors, assets, services, known actors, and restrictions around the target network.
Blockchain intelligence
Trace the settlement network behind the crimes.
Connect attributed wallets, transaction paths, counterparties, and financial services across separate cases and offenses.
All-source intelligence
Dozens of data partners. One investigation platform.
Ardence brings intelligence from TRM and specialized data providers into one investigation under a single Ardence contract.¹
Use Ardence to analyse corporate, property, licensing and identity records alongside information about the offenses and financial evidence in your case. Commercial partner intelligence and open-source information help teams test links between an organization, its businesses and activity in other jurisdictions, subject to each source's permitted-use and disclosure restrictions.
¹ Provider availability varies by customer and jurisdiction. Supplemental terms may apply.
Services
Expert support and training for organized crime investigators.
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Investigative support
Work with TRM specialists to trace proceeds and investigate the financial services used across an organization's activities. Connect those findings to your team's evidence on members, businesses, and offenses.
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TRM Academy
Build skills in following criminal proceeds and documenting financial evidence across cases through TRM Academy.
Questions
FAQ
Start with a designated organization, company, licence, property record, wallet, transaction, service, or named operator. Ardence keeps the financial and non-financial evidence in one case as the target expands.
Compare operators, companies, infrastructure, financial counterparties, and settlement services across the cases. TRM keeps the supporting source and confidence attached so investigators can distinguish a shared service from a shared organization.
Ardence brings blockchain intelligence from Forensics into a broader investigation alongside other evidence. Forensics provides a dedicated platform for deeper crypto tracing and analysis.
Teams can investigate attributed entities, financial paths, and intervention points using source information each team is permitted to access and use. Each participant controls what it shares and acts under its own policies, legal process, and authority.
TRM helps analysts assemble available corporate, licensing, property, and financial records around the target. Coverage varies by jurisdiction and source, and official ownership findings depend on the underlying records and legal process.
TRM helps teams identify and document financial activity. Asset issuers, exchanges, courts, regulators, and law enforcement authorities decide whether to freeze, seize, forfeit, or designate under their own authority.
Insights
Insights on organized criminal networks.
Shadow Bankers
How Chinese underground financial networks serve North Korean hackers, fentanyl suppliers, cartels, and organized crime.
Operation Prince
The corporate, financial, and forced-labor structure behind one transnational criminal organization.
2026 Crypto Crime Report
Insights on escrow marketplaces, underground banking, and the financial infrastructure shared across criminal lines.
