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LE/EECS 4486

Technological Countermeasures to Financial Crimes

3.0 credits

Fall 2023

Topics

  • Financial crime concepts and investigation
  • KYC and customer due diligence
  • AML and terrorism financing controls
  • regulatory reporting
  • risk assessment
  • AI and machine learning
  • NLP
  • analytics
  • distributed ledgers
  • virtual currencies
  • privacy technologies

Readings

  • No book purchase required. Primary resources: Burkov, The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book (2019) and Machine Learning Engineering (2020); LaPlante, Kureishy and Meley, Fighting Financial Crimes with Artificial Intelligence (2019); Lewis, The Basics of Bitcoins and Blockchains (2021); Adams, Introduction to Privacy Enhancing Technologies (2021); Gottschalk, Investigation and Prevention of Financial Crime, 2nd ed. (2016).
  • References: Lui and Ryder, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence and the Law (2021); Abudulai, A Guide to Canadian Money Laundering Legislation, 5th ed.; Ryder, Money Laundering—An Endless Cycle? and Financial Crime in the 21st Century; Noble, White-Collar and Financial Crimes; OSCE, Following the Money (2019). FinCEN, FINTRAC and AUSTRAC documents also listed.
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