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Money laundering enables organized crime by moving illicit funds into the legitimate economy. Although trillions of dollars are laundered each year, detection rates remain low because launderers evade oversight, confirmed cases are rare,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Johan Östman , Edvin Callisen , Anton Chen , Kristiina Ausmees , Emanuel Gårdh , Jovan Zamac , Jolanta Goldsteine , Hugo Wefer , Simon Whelan , Markus Reimegård

Money laundering presents a persistent challenge for financial institutions worldwide, while criminal organizations constantly evolve their tactics to bypass detection systems. Traditional anti-money laundering approaches mainly rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Haseeb Tariq , Marwan Hassani

Anti-Money Laundering (AML) involves the identification of money laundering crimes in financial activities, such as cryptocurrency transactions. Recent studies advanced AML through the lens of graph-based machine learning, modeling the web…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Kiwhan Song , Mohamed Ali Dhraief , Muhua Xu , Locke Cai , Xuhao Chen , Arvind , Jie Chen

Money laundering has become one of the most relevant criminal activities in modern societies, as it causes massive financial losses for governments, banks and other institutions. Detecting such activities is among the top priorities when it…

The application of graph representation learning techniques to the area of financial risk management (FRM) has attracted significant attention recently. However, directly modeling transaction networks using graph neural models remains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Ruofan Wu , Boqun Ma , Hong Jin , Wenlong Zhao , Weiqiang Wang , Tianyi Zhang

Global illicit fund flows exceed an estimated $3.1 trillion annually, with stablecoins emerging as a preferred laundering medium due to their liquidity. While decentralized protocols increasingly adopt zero-knowledge proofs to obfuscate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Luciano Juvinski , Haochen Li , Alessio Brini

Money laundering poses severe risks to global financial systems, driving the widespread adoption of machine learning for transaction monitoring. However, progress remains stifled by the lack of realistic benchmarks. Existing…

Anti-money laundering (AML) research is constrained by the lack of publicly shareable, regulation-aligned transaction datasets. We present AMLNet, a knowledge-based multi-agent framework with two coordinated units: a regulation-aware…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Sabin Huda , Ernest Foo , Zahra Jadidi , MA Hakim Newton , Abdul Sattar

In shaping the Internet of Money, the application of blockchain and distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) to the financial sector triggered regulatory concerns. Notably, while the user anonymity enabled in this field may safeguard privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Nadia Pocher , Mirko Zichichi , Fabio Merizzi , Muhammad Zohaib Shafiq , Stefano Ferretti

Financial cybercrime prevention is an increasing issue with many organisations and governments. As deep learning models have progressed to identify illicit activity on various financial and social networks, the explainability behind the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Jack Nicholls , Aditya Kuppa , Nhien-An Le-Khac

Anti-money laundering (AML) actions and measurements are among the priorities of financial institutions, for which machine learning (ML) has shown to have a high potential. In this paper, we propose a comprehensive and systematic approach…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Khashayar Namdar , Pin-Chien Wang , Tushar Raju , Steven Zheng , Fiona Li , Safwat Tahmin Khan

The global banking system has faced increasing challenges in combating money laundering, necessitating advanced methods for detecting suspicious transactions. Anti-money laundering (or AML) approaches have often relied on predefined…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Anthony Bonato , Juan Sebastian Chavez Palan , Adam Szava

In this paper, we focused on using deep learning methods for detecting money laundering in financial transaction networks, in order to demonstrate that it can be used as a complement or instead of the more commonly used rule-based systems…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Mashkhal Abdalwahid Sidiq , Yimamu Kirubel Wondaferew

Recent research has shown that criminal networks have complex organizational structures, but whether this can be used to predict static and dynamic properties of criminal networks remains little explored. Here, by combining graph…

Money laundering is the crucial mechanism utilized by criminals to inject proceeds of crime to the financial system. The primary responsibility of the detection of suspicious activity related to money laundering is with the financial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Utku Görkem Ketenci , Tolga Kurt , Selim Önal , Cenk Erbil , Sinan Aktürkoğlu , Hande Şerban İlhan

Malware analysis techniques are divided into static and dynamic analysis. Both techniques can be bypassed by circumvention techniques such as obfuscation. In a series of works, the authors have promoted the use of symbolic executions…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Charles-Henry Bertrand Van Ouytsel , Axel Legay

Money launderers exploit the weaknesses in detection systems by purposefully placing their ill-gotten money into multiple accounts, at different banks. That money is then layered and moved around among mule accounts to obscure the origin…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Haseeb Tariq , Marwan Hassani

Money laundering is a profound global problem. Nonetheless, there is little scientific literature on statistical and machine learning methods for anti-money laundering. In this paper, we focus on anti-money laundering in banks and provide…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-03-22 Rasmus Jensen , Alexandros Iosifidis

Criminals have become increasingly experienced in using cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin, for money laundering. The use of cryptocurrencies can hide criminal identities and transfer hundreds of millions of dollars of dirty funds through…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Wai Weng Lo , Gayan K. Kulatilleke , Mohanad Sarhan , Siamak Layeghy , Marius Portmann

Money laundering is a financial crime that poses a serious threat to financial integrity and social security. The growing number of transactions makes it necessary to use automatic tools that help law enforcement agencies detect such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Marco Di Gennaro , Francesco Panebianco , Marco Pianta , Stefano Zanero , Michele Carminati