Serious crime is motivated by profit, and no matter the size, most criminal acts leave a financial trail. Financial Intelligence is the process of gathering information about criminals that seek to exploit vulnerabilities within the financial sector to disguise illicit funds.

Here we are not talking about some random Ponzi Scheme or how to spend the swag of the robbery of Ocean’s Eleven. It is not so fun or glamorous. Here, we are talking about destroyed lives. A trillion dollars affair with all kinds of despicable underlying crimes, named predicate offenses, such as corruption, child exploitation, slavery, drug trafficking, tax evasion, human trafficking, human smuggling, organized crime, and many more.

The nerve center of Financial Intelligence consists of Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs), independent agencies placed in every country to fight money laundering, and the finance of terrorism. FIU analysts collaborate with the private sector, law enforcement, and other national security partners to identify, detect, and disrupt criminal networks and the proceeds of their crimes, to achieve a financial system free from criminal abuse. They receive suspicious transaction reports and release a detailed and coherent analysis of the actors, financial transactions, and suspicious crimes involved.

Whether you are a financial analyst, an AI geek, or a researcher, wouldn’ you like to help out, with the use of reasoning on knowledge graphs?

Let’s see how!

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