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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

In the context of globalization and the rapid expansion of the digital economy, anti-money laundering (AML) has become a crucial aspect of financial oversight, particularly in cross-border transactions. The rising complexity and scale of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Qian Yu , Zhen Xu , Zong Ke

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

The rise of digital payments has accelerated the need for intelligent and scalable systems to detect fraud. This research presents an end-to-end, feature-rich machine learning framework for detecting credit card transaction anomalies and…

Today, money laundering poses a serious threat not only to financial institutions but also to the nation. This criminal activity is becoming more and more sophisticated and seems to have moved from the clichy of drug trafficking to…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-09-06 Nhien-An Le-Khac , Sammer Markos , Tahar Kechadi

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…

Fraud detection is essential in financial services, with the potential of greatly reducing criminal activities and saving considerable resources for businesses and customers. We address online fraud detection, which consists of classifying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-17 David Aparício , Ricardo Barata , João Bravo , João Tiago Ascensão , Pedro Bizarro

This paper introduces a Large Language Model (LLM)-based multi-agent framework designed to enhance anomaly detection within financial market data, tackling the longstanding challenge of manually verifying system-generated anomaly alerts.…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2024-04-01 Taejin Park

Money laundering is a critical global issue for financial institutions. Automated Anti-money laundering (AML) models, like Graph Neural Networks (GNN), can be trained to identify illicit transactions in real time. A major issue for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Rachel Chung , Pratyush Nidhi Sharma , Mikko Siponen , Rohit Vadodaria , Luke Smith

Purpose: We introduce GARG-AML, a fast and transparent graph-based method to catch `smurfing', a common money-laundering tactic. It assigns a single, easy-to-understand risk score to every account in both directed and undirected networks.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Bruno Deprez , Bart Baesens , Tim Verdonck , Wouter Verbeke

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

Recent advancements in money laundering detection have demonstrated the potential of using graph neural networks to capture laundering patterns accurately. However, existing models are not explicitly designed to detect the diverse patterns…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Yasaman Samadi , Hai Dong , Xiaoyu Xia

Given a stream of money transactions between accounts in a bank, how can we accurately detect money laundering agent accounts and suspected behaviors in real-time? Money laundering agents try to hide the origin of illegally obtained money…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Xiaobing Sun , Wenjie Feng , Shenghua Liu , Yuyang Xie , Siddharth Bhatia , Bryan Hooi , Wenhan Wang , Xueqi Cheng

Money laundering (ML) is the behavior to conceal the source of money achieved by illegitimate activities, and always be a fast process involving frequent and chained transactions. How can we detect ML and fraudulent activity in large scale…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Xiaobing Sun , Jiabao Zhang , Qiming Zhao , Shenghua Liu , Jinglei Chen , Ruoyu Zhuang , Huawei Shen , Xueqi Cheng

Fraudulent activities on digital banking services are becoming more intricate by the day, challenging existing defenses. While older rule driven methods struggle to keep pace, even precision focused algorithms fall short when new scams are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Karthikeyan V. R. , Premnath S. , Kavinraaj S. , J. Sangeetha

Money laundering detection faces challenges due to excessive false positives and inadequate adaptation to sophisticated multi-stage schemes that exploit modern financial networks. Graph analytics and AI are promising tools, but they…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Haojie Ye , Arjun Laxman , Yichao Yuan , Krisztian Flautner , Nishil Talati

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

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

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

Every year, criminals launder billions of dollars acquired from serious felonies (e.g., terrorism, drug smuggling, or human trafficking) harming countless people and economies. Cryptocurrencies, in particular, have developed as a haven for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Joana Lorenz , Maria Inês Silva , David Aparício , João Tiago Ascensão , Pedro Bizarro