Distinguishing Targets from Lookalikes: Entity Disambiguation Tactics and Examples
There are countless people and companies with identical names. As an investigator, how do you determine whether you’re looking at [...]
KYC, CDD & EDD
Prime Trust FIU and CDD Teams Drive Complex Investigations With Sayari
As an emerging market, cryptocurrency attracts high-risk entities and illicit actors. One of Prime Trust’s core use cases is helping [...]
Techniques for Overcoming Language Barriers in Open Source Investigations
In today’s globalized economy, it’s increasingly common for financial crime professionals to encounter transnational entities and unfamiliar languages in the [...]
Everything You Need to Know About Know Your Customer (KYC)
Know Your Customer, or KYC, is the critical first step in the fight against financial crime and money laundering. KYC [...]
Tracking a Princess: Using Public Records to Trace the Assets of Africa’s Richest Woman
Grand corruption, or corruption involving senior government officials and large sums of money, is a global problem. Such grand corruption [...]
Unmasking Offshore Companies Beyond The Pandora Papers | Public Data Masterclass
The Pandora Papers vividly illustrate the importance of access to global public data in the fight against financial crime. But [...]
How to Use Public Data To Identify Potential Chinese Military End Users
How can you use public data to identify potential Chinese military end users and why is it important? U.S. regulators [...]
Pandora Papers: Public Data and Offshore Company Ownership
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) earlier this month released the Pandora Papers, a massive leak of confidential records [...]
Masterclass: Tracking Complex European Corporate Structures of Russian Oligarchs Using Graph and Data Analytics
Russian oligarchs with political ties to the Russian state have long relied on European institutions to protect and hide their [...]
Masterclass: Tracking Iranian Shipping Networks and Global Sanctions Risk Using Data and Graph Analytics
Deceptive shipping practices enable the continued movement of Iranian oil and other illicit goods across the world, despite sanctions. The [...]