Open building blocks

Addressing financial crime data analysis takes many shapes: from transaction screening to building knowledge graphs, each use case needs its own solutions. We think that open source technology can provide much-needed building blocks needed to create cooperation in this space.

Open Source AML/Fintech

moov.io maintains dozens of open source fintech components, from implementing ACH parsing, BSA e-filing to watchlist screening.
Marble build an open source real-time AML and fraud decision system.
Ballerine is an open-source data orchestration platform for risk decisioning.
Tazama is a charity building an open source transaction monitoring system focussed around ISO20022 messages.
IBM AMLSim is a multi-agent based simulator that generates synthetic banking transaction data together with a set of known money laundering patterns - mainly for the purpose of testing machine learning models and graph algorithms.

FollowTheMoney Ecosystem

The FollowTheMoney data model was first developed at OCCRP in order to provide a comprehensive data language around financial crime investigations. It has since been adopted by several other projects, including OpenSanctions.

Aleph is an open source data platform. The tool was built to help investigative journalists track people and companies, usually as part of their corruption investigations.
- ingest-file is the component of Aleph that converts unstructured data - such as documents, PDFs, emails - into an FtM entity graph.
- memorious is the crawling framework used by OCCRP's Aleph team. It can inject both structured data and documents into an Aleph, where they are turned into FtM entities.
FollowTheMoney itself includes a CLI tool that can convert CSV and SQL data to FtM, and export entities to various formats, including Gephi GEXF, Neo4J Cypher, etc.
Investigraph as an open source ETL framework producing FtM data. It was developed by investigativedata.io, who also maintain a data catalog with FtM open data assets focussed on the EU institutions and Germany.
thebeast is also an FtM data processing tool, focussed on YAML-defined pipelines for large-scale processing.

Open Data Community

Governments and organisations around the world have committed to publishing their data under open licenses in order to promote public re-use. Here's some other international organisations who support an open data commons focussed around financial crime-related data:

Open Ownership advocates for the publication of beneficial ownership data, develops a data standard (BODS) for that data and helps governments become conformant. We then convert the datasets published in BODS format to FtM.
OpenCorporates maps out the corporate world and lets everybody search for company information in 140+ jurisdictions. We provide links to OpenCorporates in our dataset.
ICIJ, a global network of investigative reporters is publishing OffshoreLeaks, a database with ownership records for hundreds of thousands of offshore companies. We publish an FtM version of the database.
GLEIF, the foundation behind the LEI identifier for legal entities, publishes open data about every entity that has received an LEI number. We republish the GLEIF database in FtM data format.
Open Contracting promotes and enables the publication of open data about government procurement.
IATI promotes and supports the publication of transparent records in international aid and development.