In order to track money laundering and terrorist funding, banks have to create risk profiles of their clients. Banks that want to do business in the United States have to implement a worldwide Know Your Customer (KYC) program, partially based on the Patriot Act. Implementing a KYC policy, however, raises several problems and seems to be neither effective nor efficient in tracking money launderi...

The first stage in the process is placement. The placement stage involves the physical movement of currency or other funds derived from illegal activities to a place or into a form that is less suspicious to law enforcement authorities and more convenient to the criminal. The proceeds are introduced into traditional or nontraditional financial institutions or into the retail economy. The second...

The article continues the analysis of work model developed by authors forecasting money laundering rate. purpose study is to compare results forecast with actual data. Authors used official data Ministry Internal Affairs Russian Federation on economic crime rate for period January 2011 – July 2022. In last published work, a was formed based seasonal integrated autoregression moving average (SAR...

Criminal analysis is a complex process involving information gathered from di erent sources, mainly of quantitative character, such as billings or bank account transactions, but also of qualitative character such as eyewitnesses' testimonies. Due to the massive nature of this information, operational or investigation activities can be vastly improved when supported by dedicated techniques and t...

With the expanding of database of the watch list of anti-money laundering, improving the speed in matching between the watch list and the database of account holders and clients’ transaction is especially important. This paper proposes an improved AC-BM Algorithm, a matching algorithm of subsection, to improve the speed of matching. Experiment results show the time performance of the improved a...

This Note argues that key escrow represents a solution to the problem of digital money laundering. In addition, this Note argues that the European Commission has wrongly concluded that key escrow should develop as a product of market forces rather than aggressive legislation, and should align its policy with the United States, France, and Great Britain to develop a joint network of key escrow a...