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With the widespread digitization of finance and the increasing popularity of cryptocurrencies, the sophistication of fraud schemes devised by cybercriminals is growing. Money laundering -- the movement of illicit funds to conceal their…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Erik Altman , Jovan Blanuša , Luc von Niederhäusern , Béni Egressy , Andreea Anghel , Kubilay Atasu

Current anti-money laundering (AML) systems, predominantly rule-based, exhibit notable shortcomings in efficiently and precisely detecting instances of money laundering. As a result, there has been a recent surge toward exploring…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Fredrik Johannessen , Martin Jullum

Financial institutions are required by regulation to report suspicious financial transactions related to money laundering. Therefore, they need to constantly monitor vast amounts of incoming and outgoing transactions. A particular challenge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Bruno Deprez , Wei Wei , Wouter Verbeke , Bart Baesens , Kevin Mets , Tim Verdonck

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

Accounting fraud is a global concern representing a significant threat to the financial system stability due to the resulting diminishing of the market confidence and trust of regulatory authorities. Several tricks can be used to commit…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-09 Maria Jofre , Richard Gerlach

Money laundering is not only about moving illicit funds, but about hiding the money's origin and traces to complicate detection. Financial criminals resort to many methods to avoid regulators and legal thresholds. But analysts investigating…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Salomé Esteves , Rita Costa , Louise Fallon , Pedro Bizarro

Financial forensics has an important role in the field of finance to detect and investigate the occurrence of finance related crimes like money laundering. However, as with other forms of criminal activities, the forensics analysis of such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Jonathan Pan

The complexity and interconnectivity of entities involved in money laundering demand investigative reasoning over graph-structured data. This paper explores the use of large language models (LLMs) as reasoning engines over localized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Erfan Pirmorad

Crime linkage is the process of analyzing criminal behavior data to determine whether a pair or group of crime cases are connected or belong to a series of offenses. This domain has been extensively studied by researchers in sociology,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Vinicius Lima , Umit Karabiyik

Objectives: To combat money laundering, banks raise and review alerts on transactions that exceed confidential thresholds. However, the thresholds may be leaked to criminals, allowing them to break up large transactions into amounts under…

General Economics · Economics 2025-07-22 Rasmus Ingemann Tuffveson Jensen , Joras Ferwerda , Christian Remi Wewer

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

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…

Money laundering is the process that intends to legalize the income derived from illicit activities, thus facilitating their entry into the monetary flow of the economy without jeopardizing their source. It is crucial to identify such…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Zhihua Tian , Yuan Ding , Wenjie Qu , Xiang Yu , Enchao Gong , Jian Liu , Kui Ren

For different factors/reasons, ranging from inherent characteristics and features providing decentralization, enhanced privacy, ease of transactions, etc., to implied external hardships in enforcing regulations, contradictions in data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Dinesh Srivasthav P , Manoj Apte

Many business applications involve adversarial relationships in which both sides adapt their strategies to optimize their opposing benefits. One of the key characteristics of these applications is the wide range of strategies that an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Daniel Borrajo , Manuela Veloso , Sameena Shah

Anti-money laundering (AML) regulations mandate financial institutions to deploy AML systems based on a set of rules that, when triggered, form the basis of a suspicious alert to be assessed by human analysts. Reviewing these cases is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Mário Cardoso , Pedro Saleiro , Pedro Bizarro

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

Conventional anti-money laundering (AML) systems predominantly focus on identifying anomalous entities or transactions, flagging them for manual investigation based on statistical deviation or suspicious behavior. This paradigm, however,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Danny Butvinik , Ofir Yakobi , Michal Einhorn Cohen , Elina Maliarsky

This study aims to examine the challenges and applications of machine learning for financial research. Machine learning algorithms have been developed for certain data environments which substantially differ from the one we encounter in…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2021-03-29 Kristof Lommers , Ouns El Harzli , Jack Kim

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