LE/EECS 4486
Technological Countermeasures to Financial Crimes
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.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- Public course website / syllabus ↗Fall 2023