To help catch potential money launderers, U.S. data analytics company FICO has developed a system that aims to collect financial data from Bitcoin exchanges.

FICO’s patent application, called “Advanced Learning System for Detection and Prevention of Money Laundering,” describes a programmable system that gather publicly available information from cryptocurrency exchanges and miners to track the flow of digital currencies. The information gathered can be used to create “threat scores,” which bank specialists can use “to identify behavior for a banking customer that is suspicious and indicates high likelihood of money laundering activity.”

“Because emerging payment systems such as mobile and cryptocurrencies may have limited interaction with traditional financial institutions, there are more limited opportunities to detect laundering which involves them,” the filing stated.

To improve detection, FICO said it plans to create “a Cloud-based data store [that] integrates information from multiple sources,” such as “entities associated with legal and illicit Bitcoin exchanges” as well as “entities associated with mobile payment and remittance networks.”