English
Related papers

Related papers: Identifying Money Laundering Subgraphs on the Bloc…

200 papers

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

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

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

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 global problem that concerns legitimizing proceeds from serious felonies (1.7-4 trillion euros annually) such as drug dealing, human trafficking, or corruption. The anti-money laundering systems deployed by financial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Ahmad Naser Eddin , Jacopo Bono , David Aparício , David Polido , João Tiago Ascensão , Pedro Bizarro , Pedro Ribeiro

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

Benford's law describes the distribution of the first digit of numbers appearing in a wide variety of numerical data, including tax records, and election outcomes, and has been used to raise "red flags" about potential anomalies in the data…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Tianyi Chen , Charalampos E. Tsourakakis

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…

The rise of digital ecosystems has exposed the financial sector to evolving abuse and criminal tactics that share operational knowledge and techniques both within and across different environments (fiat-based, crypto-assets, etc.).…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Francesco Zola , Jon Ander Medina , Andrea Venturi , Amaia Gil , Raul Orduna

Transfer-based anti-money laundering (AML) systems monitor token flows through transaction-graph abstractions, implicitly assuming that economically meaningful value migration is sufficiently encoded in transfer-layer connectivity. In this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Yixin Cao , Xianfeng Cheng , Yijie Liu

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

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

Databases · Computer Science 2017-03-30 Nhien-An Le-Khac , Sammer Markos , Michael O'Neill , Anthony Brabazon , Tahar Kechadi

Bitcoin is one of the decentralized cryptocurrencies powered by a peer-to-peer blockchain network. Parties who trade in the bitcoin network are not required to disclose any personal information. Such property of anonymity, however,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Zhengjie Huang , Yunyang Huang , Peng Qian , Jianhai Chen , Qinming He

Anomaly detection in networks often boils down to identifying an underlying graph structure on which the abnormal occurrence rests on. Financial fraud schemes are one such example, where more or less intricate schemes are employed in order…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Andra Baltoiu , Andrei Patrascu , Paul Irofti

The anonymity of blockchain has accelerated the growth of illegal activities and criminal behaviors on cryptocurrency platforms. Although decentralization is one of the typical characteristics of blockchain, we urgently call for effective…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Jie Shen , Jiajun Zhou , Yunyi Xie , Shanqing Yu , Qi Xuan

Blockchain technology and, in particular, blockchain-based transaction offers us information that has never been seen before in the financial world. In contrast to fiat currencies, transactions through virtual currencies like Bitcoin are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Jinhuan Wang , Pengtao Chen , Shanqing Yu , Qi Xuan

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

With the deep integration of the travel and energy industries, cross-industry supply chain finance has gradually become a high-risk field of hidden money laundering incidents. For this reason, this work proposes a graph-driven…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Rong Liu , Xiaojun Xiao , Zhanqing Su

Like any other useful technology, cryptocurrencies are sometimes used for criminal activities. While transactions are recorded on the blockchain, there exists a need for a more rapid and scalable method to detect addresses associated with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Ayush Agarwal , Lv Lu , Arjun Maheswaran , Varsha Mahadevan , Bhaskar Krishnamachari

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