Instruments

Instruments represent any physical, digital, or logical intermediary between an entity and a transaction event such as:

• a Credit Card
• a Bank Account #
• a Crypto Wallet
• a Gift Card

When transactions occur between entities, an instrument can be added.

Transactions can also occur between instruments (and involve no entities at all):

• Sarah Smith sent Paul Smith 5 ETH using a Wallet
• $25,000 USD wired from Bank Routing # 072403473 to Bank Routing # 041215016
• Credit Card A received $567 from Credit Card B
• User jarmin04 used store credit to make a $380 purchase online

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Note that instrument searches will take at least an hour after ingestion before they are searchable!

Suspicious transactions create alerts wherein instruments can be investigated.

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Instruments should represent an item with a unique identifier and not a type (i.e. cash, ach, wire--which are better represented via event subtype).

Overview

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To access information about an entity, go to the Data Explorer page and select the Instruments tab:

You must use the search filter to find the instrument of your choice.

To view additional information about the instrument, select it from the search results. A pane in the left side of the window will open up where you can select Go to Detail Page->.

A new page will load with the instrument's summary information:

• Basic information
• Related entities
• Transaction summary
• Action items (workflows, comments and tags)

The page contains tabs with additional information

• Rule Silencing - Rules where instrument should be ignored

Data Structure

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These are some of the fields that describe an instrument in the Unit21 system: