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In this paper, we present "Graph Feature Preprocessor", a software library for detecting typical money laundering patterns in financial transaction graphs in real time. These patterns are used to produce a rich set of transaction features…

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 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

In the current context of accelerated globalization and digitalization, the complexity and uncertainty of financial markets are increasing, and the identification and prevention of economic risks have become a key link in maintaining the…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2024-11-20 Xin Zhang , Zhen Xu , Yue Liu , Mengfang Sun , Tong Zhou , Wenying Sun

Graph-based Neural Networks (GNNs) are recent models created for learning representations of nodes (and graphs), which have achieved promising results when detecting patterns that occur in large-scale data relating different entities. Among…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Ronald D. R. Pereira , Fabrício Murai

We employ network embedding to detect money laundering in financial transaction networks. Using real anonymized banking data, we model over one million accounts as a directed graph and use it to refine previously detected suspicious cycles…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Anthony Bonato , Adam Szava

In this paper, we present a novel approach to identify linked fraudulent activities or actors sharing similar attributes, using Graph Convolution Network (GCN). These linked fraudulent activities can be visualized as graphs with abstract…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Sharmin Pathan , Vyom Shrivastava

This study investigates fraud detection in ride hailing platforms through Graph Neural Networks (GNNs),focusing on the effectiveness of various models. By analyzing prevalent fraudulent activities, the research highlights and compares the…

This paper presents a dynamic, real-time approach to detecting anomalous blockchain transactions. The proposed tool, BlockGPT, generates tracing representations of blockchain activity and trains from scratch a large language model to act as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Yu Gai , Liyi Zhou , Kaihua Qin , Dawn Song , Arthur Gervais

Fraud detection aims to discover fraudsters deceiving other users by, for example, leaving fake reviews or making abnormal transactions. Graph-based fraud detection methods consider this task as a classification problem with two classes:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Heehyeon Kim , Jinhyeok Choi , Joyce Jiyoung Whang

With the popularity of blockchain technology, the financial security issues of blockchain transaction networks have become increasingly serious. Phishing scam detection methods will protect possible victims and build a healthier blockchain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Dunjie Zhang , Jinyin Chen

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

As more and more attacks have been detected on Ethereum smart contracts, it has seriously affected finance and credibility. Current anti-fraud detection techniques, including code parsing or manual feature extraction, still have some…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Yihong Jin , Ze Yang , Xinhe Xu

Effectively detecting anomalous nodes in attributed networks is crucial for the success of many real-world applications such as fraud and intrusion detection. Existing approaches have difficulties with three major issues: sparsity and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Yulong Pei , Tianjin Huang , Werner van Ipenburg , Mykola Pechenizkiy

With the development of the Internet of Things (IoT), network intrusion detection is becoming more complex and extensive. It is essential to investigate an intelligent, automated, and robust network intrusion detection method. Graph neural…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Yalu Wang , Zhijie Han , Jie Li , Xin He

Utilizing graph analytics and learning has proven to be an effective method for exploring aspects of crypto economics such as network effects, decentralization, tokenomics, and fraud detection. However, the majority of existing research…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Bingqiao Luo

Bitcoin is by far the most popular crypto-currency solution enabling peer-to-peer payments. Despite some studies highlighting the network does not provide full anonymity, it is still being heavily used for a wide variety of dubious…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Yining Hu , Suranga Seneviratne , Kanchana Thilakarathna , Kensuke Fukuda , Aruna Seneviratne

Detecting fraudulent transactions is an essential component to control risk in e-commerce marketplaces. Apart from rule-based and machine learning filters that are already deployed in production, we want to enable efficient real-time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Mingxuan Lu , Zhichao Han , Susie Xi Rao , Zitao Zhang , Yang Zhao , Yinan Shan , Ramesh Raghunathan , Ce Zhang , Jiawei Jiang

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

Decentralized financial platforms rely heavily on Web of Trust reputation systems to mitigate counterparty risk in the absence of centralized identity verification. However, these pseudonymous networks are inherently vulnerable to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Chang Xue , Fang Liu , Jiaye Wang , Jinming Xing , Chen Yang