FinTracer: A privacy-preserving mechanism for tracing electronic money

ePrint Report: FinTracer: A privacy-preserving mechanism for tracing electronic money

Michael Brand, Hamish Ivey-Law, Tania Churchill

Information sharing between financial institutions can uncover complex financial crimes such as money laundering and fraud. However, such information sharing is often not possible due to privacy and commercial considerations, and criminals can exploit this intelligence gap in order to hide their activities by distributing them between institutions, a form of the practice known as ``layering''.


We describe an algorithm that allows financial intelligence …

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