Financial Crime Investigations

Follow The Money Across Channels and Borders

THE CHALLENGE

Financial Crime And Terror Financing Are Enabling Bad Actors

From crypto to hawala networks and shell companies, unraveling illicit financial activity has become essential to nearly every type of criminal and terror investigation.

Long and Complicated Money Trail

Shareholders, shell companies, UBOs and currencies create an intricate web of transactions and activities.

Financial Data Is Complex

Analysts and investigators are not equipped to tackle complex financial data and corporate structures

Diverse Sources and Formats

Diversity of data makes it difficult to perform entity resolution and uncover hidden networks.

Distinguishing Legitimate from Illegitimate Transactions

Legitimate transactions must be distinguished from suspicious ones.

See How Cognyte Helps Tackle Financial Crime

THE SOLUTION

Today’s Financial Crimes Require An AI-First Intelligence Approach

Value From Day 1: Social media, blockchain, cyber threat intelligence, Moody’s Analytics and various financial data providers
AI Inside: Agentic AI-powered enrichments, models, algorithms, co-pilot and decision flows guided by human-in-the loop oversight
Data Governance & Self-Sufficiency: Data modeling, creation of ML models, privacy and compliance with no mandatory professional services on-site
End-to-End Methodology: Financial crime, counter- terrorist financing (CTF) and fraud
Multiple Deployment Options: Cloud native & On-prem implementation

Applying AI And Automation To Financial Investigations

Organized Crime

Expose criminal networks, map funding sources and identify suspicious patterns

Financial Crime

Follow the money to detect fraud, corruption, money laundering and crypto crime

Terror Financing

Surface, designate and sanction financial entities to disrupt terror operations

Cyber Crime

Detect scams, attacks and malicious activity, exposing the bad actors responsible

Trusted By

Leading law enforcement and intelligence agencies worldwide to support their financial crime investigations

Counter-Terror Financing Units

Law Enforcement Agencies

Intelligence Agencies

Financial Intelligence Units

Tax and Revenue Authorities

30

Years of records

100 s

Customers

100 +

Countries

1.7 +

Employees

13

Global Offices

7

Global R&D Centers

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Case Study

Breaking Down Data Silos: How NEXYTE Transformed OSINT Investigations

A European intelligence organization modernized its operations by deploying Cognyte's NEXYTE platform, integrating OSINT with authorized internal data to automate investigations and give analysts a unified investigative workspace.

Case Study

How a Tier-1 Military Agency Disrupted Terror Financing Networks

Learn how a leading military intelligence agency used AI-driven decision intelligence to uncover hidden terror financing networks and trace illicit funding flows across digital platforms and cryptocurrency.

By Madison Pollak

Jun 11 2026 | 1 Min Read

Article

Fuse OSINT and AI to expose illicit financial networks

$4.4 trillion in dirty money is moving faster than investigators can track it. In Police1, former Secret Service leader Matt O'Neill reveals how AI and open-source intelligence could finally tip the odds back in law enforcement's favor.

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Turn Financial Intelligence into Operational Action

Blog

Why Law Enforcement Needs Smarter Financial Crime Software

In today’s digital and hyperconnected world, financial crime is evolving at an unprecedented pace. From global money laundering operations to multi-layered fraud networks, criminal enterprises are using advanced technologies to outpace traditional investigative methods. For law enforcement agencies, staying ahead requires more than expertise and intuition, it demands purpose-built financial crime software, powered by AI....

By Omer Frenkel

Jun 08 2025 | 9 Min Read