Open building blocks

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 focused 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.

• OpenAleph 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 focused on the EU institutions and Germany.

• thebeast is also an FtM data processing tool, focused 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 focused 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.