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Technological advancements in cryptocurrency markets have increased accessibility for investors, but concurrently exposed them to the risks of market manipulations. Existing fraud detection mechanisms typically rely on machine learning…

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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…

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At online retail platforms, detecting fraudulent accounts and transactions is crucial to improve customer experience, minimize loss, and avoid unauthorized transactions. Despite the variety of different models for deep learning on graphs,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Susie Xi Rao , Clémence Lanfranchi , Shuai Zhang , Zhichao Han , Zitao Zhang , Wei Min , Mo Cheng , Yinan Shan , Yang Zhao , Ce Zhang

Anti-money laundering (AML) systems are important for protecting the global economy. However, conventional rule-based methods rely on domain knowledge, leading to suboptimal accuracy and a lack of scalability. Graph neural networks (GNNs)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Chung-Hoo Poon , James Kwok , Calvin Chow , Jang-Hyeon Choi

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…

Criminals are using every means available to launder the profits from their illegal activities into ostensibly legitimate assets. Meanwhile, most commercial anti-money laundering systems are still rule-based, which cannot adapt to the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Xurui Li , Xiang Cao , Xuetao Qiu , Jintao Zhao , Jianbin Zheng

Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) are a main impendence in cyber security of computer networks. In 2015, a successful breach remains undetected 146 days on average, reported by [Fi16].With our work we demonstrate a feasible and fast way to…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-02-02 Timo Schindler

The presence of Super-Apps have changed the way we think about the interactions between users and commerce. It then comes as no surprise that it is also redefining the way banking is done. The paper investigates how different interactions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Luisa Roa , Andrés Rodríguez-Rey , Alejandro Correa-Bahnsen , Carlos Valencia

Signatures present on corporate documents are often used in investigations of relationships between persons of interest, and prior research into the task of offline signature verification has evaluated a wide range of methods on standard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Nikhil Woodruff , Amir Enshaei , Bashar Awwad Shiekh Hasan

The digital revolution has significantly impacted financial transactions, leading to a notable increase in credit card usage. However, this convenience comes with a trade-off: a substantial rise in fraudulent activities. Traditional machine…

International audit standards require the direct assessment of a financial statement's underlying accounting journal entries. Driven by advances in artificial intelligence, deep-learning inspired audit techniques emerged to examine vast…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Hamed Hemati , Marco Schreyer , Damian Borth

Deep learning has shown remarkable results on Euclidean data (e.g. audio, images, text) however this type of data is limited in the amount of relational information it can hold. In mathematics we can model more general relational data in a…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2021-12-20 Edward Turner

Account Takeover (ATO) fraud poses a significant challenge in consumer banking, requiring high recall under strict latency while minimizing friction for legitimate users. Production systems typically rely on tabular gradient-boosted…

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We introduce the notion of a risk-limiting financial auditing (RLFA): given $N$ transactions, the goal is to estimate the total misstated monetary fraction~($m^*$) to a given accuracy $\epsilon$, with confidence $1-\delta$. We do this by…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-05-12 Shubhanshu Shekhar , Ziyu Xu , Zachary C. Lipton , Pierre J. Liang , Aaditya Ramdas

Anti-money laundering (AML) regulations play a critical role in safeguarding financial systems, but bear high costs for institutions and drive financial exclusion for those on the socioeconomic and international margins. The advent of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-08-08 Mark Weber , Giacomo Domeniconi , Jie Chen , Daniel Karl I. Weidele , Claudio Bellei , Tom Robinson , Charles E. Leiserson

Encryption has been commonly used in network traffic to secure transmission, but it also brings challenges for malicious traffic detection, due to the invisibility of the packet payload. Graph-based methods are emerging as promising…

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In the face of global economic uncertainty, financial auditing has become essential for regulatory compliance and risk mitigation. Traditional manual auditing methods are increasingly limited by large data volumes, complex business…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2026-01-09 Tingyu Yuan , Xi Zhang , Xuanjing Chen

System auditing is a powerful tool that provides insight into the nature of suspicious events in computing systems, allowing machine operators to detect and subsequently investigate security incidents. While auditing has proven invaluable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Ayoosh Bansal , Anant Kandikuppa , Chien-Ying Chen , Monowar Hasan , Adam Bates , Sibin Mohan

Detecting anomalies is important for identifying inefficiencies, errors, or fraud in business processes. Traditional process mining approaches focus on analyzing 'flattened', sequential, event logs based on a single case notion. However,…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2024-03-05 Alessandro Niro , Michael Werner

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…

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