Category: crypto compliance workspace / AML-KYC-KYT operations control plane / VASP onboarding and case-management infrastructure
Summary: MarketGuard is best understood as a compliance-officer workspace for VASPs and other blockchain businesses rather than as a narrow screening widget. Its official site and help-center docs expose a stack spanning KYC/KYB onboarding, wallet verification, ongoing sanctions/PEP/watchlist monitoring, AML-quiz-based risk profiling, KYT transaction monitoring, case management, and regulatory reporting. The public API surface is still relatively small, but the docs and OpenAPI spec show that MarketGuard also exposes transaction-ingestion and address-related endpoints, with the current production API spec pointing at api.finchguard.com, which suggests some backend or product-lineage continuity behind the current brand.
What it does:
Helps VASPs and blockchain companies onboard retail and business customers while collecting company, shareholder, and identity-verification data
Supports multiple identity-verification methods including SMS, video identification, video-selfie, and photo-selfie flows
Continuously monitors shareholders and key personnel against sanctions, PEP, and custom watchlists, with notification on status changes
Uses an AML quiz to assign client risk levels and define client-specific daily or monthly monitoring thresholds
Processes linked transactions through a KYT module that can raise high-risk cases based on volume limits, blockchain-risk scores, and country-risk checks
Produces case-based regulatory reporting and exposes API endpoints for pushing and retrieving transaction data
Key claims:
The homepage calls MarketGuard a “Plug-and-play AML & KYC solution for VASPs and CASPs” and says it was “Created by a financial institution for financial institutions”
The homepage highlights KYC & KYB onboarding, transaction monitoring, integrated banks and custodians, secure data storage, customizable workflows, and regulatory reporting
The help-center overview says MarketGuard is an automated AML, KYC/KYB, and KYT solution that covers onboarding, ongoing monitoring, risk profiling, transaction monitoring, case management, and regulatory reporting
The client-onboarding docs say the system collects company and shareholder data, supports wallet verification, supports custom statuses, and can integrate external KYC providers such as SumSub
The client-risk-profiling docs say compliance officers can create separate AML quizzes for business and retail clients, score answers automatically, assign normal/medium/high risk levels, and set customer-specific limits
The KYT docs say high-risk cases can be triggered by daily volume limits, 30-day rolling volume limits, blockchain-risk scores from a third-party provider, country-risk checks, and payment-country checks
The public transaction API docs expose POST /api/v1/transactions and GET /api/v1/transactions, while the OpenAPI spec says pushed transactions include amount, asset/network, source and destination addresses, optional fees and venue data, and timestamps, and that returned transaction objects include internal/external typing plus directionality metadata
The client-onboarding docs note that some legal-entity forms, specifically trusts and foundations, are not supported in the documented workflow
Whitepaper: No canonical standalone MarketGuard whitepaper or litepaper surfaced in this pass. The clearest current sources of truth were the official site, help-center docs, workflow pages, and the OpenAPI spec linked from the docs; see ../whitepapers/marketguard-primary-sources-2026-05-01.md.