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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

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

Graph clustering (or community detection) has long drawn enormous attention from the research on web mining and information networks. Recent literature on this topic has reached a consensus that node contents and link structures should be…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-12-25 Carl Yang , Mengxiong Liu , Zongyi Wang , Liyuan Liu , Jiawei Han

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

Signed networks are frequently observed in real life with additional sign information associated with each edge, yet such information has been largely ignored in existing network models. This paper develops a unified embedding model for…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Haoran Zhang , Junhui Wang

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

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…

Existing network embedding approaches tackle the problem of learning low-dimensional node representations. However, networks can also be seen in the light of edges interlinking pairs of nodes. The broad goal of this paper is to introduce…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Giuseppe Pirrò

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

Macroeconomic indexes are of high importance for banks: many risk-control decisions utilize these indexes. A typical workflow of these indexes evaluation is costly and protracted, with a lag between the actual date and available index being…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2021-12-30 Maria Begicheva , Alexey Zaytsev

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

Financial transactions can be considered edges in a heterogeneous graph between entities sending money and entities receiving money. For financial institutions, such a graph is likely large (with millions or billions of edges) while also…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-18 C. Bayan Bruss , Anish Khazane , Jonathan Rider , Richard Serpe , Antonia Gogoglou , Keegan E. Hines

Embedding graph nodes into a vector space can allow the use of machine learning to e.g. predict node classes, but the study of node embedding algorithms is immature compared to the natural language processing field because of a diverse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Kento Nozawa , Masanari Kimura , Atsunori Kanemura

Money laundering is the crucial mechanism utilized by criminals to inject proceeds of crime to the financial system. The primary responsibility of the detection of suspicious activity related to money laundering is with the financial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Utku Görkem Ketenci , Tolga Kurt , Selim Önal , Cenk Erbil , Sinan Aktürkoğlu , Hande Şerban İlhan

Money laundering is a financial crime that poses a serious threat to financial integrity and social security. The growing number of transactions makes it necessary to use automatic tools that help law enforcement agencies detect such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Marco Di Gennaro , Francesco Panebianco , Marco Pianta , Stefano Zanero , Michele Carminati

Transaction checkout fraud detection is an essential risk control components for E-commerce marketplaces. In order to leverage graph networks to decrease fraud rate efficiently and guarantee the information flow passed through neighbors…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Mingxuan Lu , Zhichao Han , Zitao Zhang , Yang Zhao , Yinan Shan

Network embedding has attracted an increasing attention over the past few years. As an effective approach to solve graph mining problems, network embedding aims to learn a low-dimensional feature vector representation for each node of a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Xiao Shen , Fu-Lai Chung

In e-commerce industry, graph neural network methods are the new trends for transaction risk modeling.The power of graph algorithms lie in the capability to catch transaction linking network information, which is very hard to be captured by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Hang Yin , Zitao Zhang , Zhurong Wang , Yilmazcan Ozyurt , Weiming Liang , Wenyu Dong , Yang Zhao , Yinan Shan

Anti-money laundering (AML) research is constrained by the lack of publicly shareable, regulation-aligned transaction datasets. We present AMLNet, a knowledge-based multi-agent framework with two coordinated units: a regulation-aware…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Sabin Huda , Ernest Foo , Zahra Jadidi , MA Hakim Newton , Abdul Sattar

Recently, blockchain technology has become a topic in the spotlight but also a hotbed of various cybercrimes. Among them, phishing scams on blockchain have been found making a notable amount of money, thus emerging as a serious threat to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Jiajing Wu , Qi Yuan , Dan Lin , Wei You , Weili Chen , Chuan Chen , Zibin Zheng