AMLTRIX, an open-source AML initiative, has launched the world’s first AML knowledge graph, aiming to create a universal framework for tackling financial crime.
The product was introduced to address a long-standing challenge in combating money laundering, which the United Nations estimates drains up to $2tn, or 5% of global GDP, each year from the global economy, claims Finextra.
Until now, financial institutions have largely operated in isolation, developing their own tools and frameworks without collaboration, leaving gaps for criminals to exploit across borders and jurisdictions.
AMLTRIX is focused on replacing fragmented and proprietary approaches with a standardised AML framework. The initiative provides a free-to-access knowledge graph, designed to support banks, FinTechs, regulators, and law enforcement agencies in building more consistent defences against money laundering schemes.
The AML knowledge graph currently defines over 250 adversarial techniques, more than 1,950 defensive mappings, and 2,500 risk indicators across the money laundering kill-chain. It has been developed through analysis of more than 1,000 regulatory, investigative, and typology sources. The framework has already been showcased to institutions such as the Central Bank of Ireland and the Bank for International Settlements (BIS).
One of the main goals of the product is to standardise the AML investigation process and improve detection. As laundering techniques evolve quickly, many organisations struggle to adapt their systems in time. By providing a structured and shared database of typologies and risks, AMLTRIX encourages collaboration, faster response, and wider use of AI in disrupting illicit financial flows tied to organised crime, terrorism, and corruption.
Beyond its technical function, AMLTRIX also promotes the development of AI detection models. Its machine-readable format allows advanced analytics tools to enhance compliance processes. The initiative takes inspiration from cybersecurity, where shared frameworks and playbooks have already improved threat response across industries.
AMLTRIX is designed for flexible adoption, enabling financial institutions to integrate its standards step by step without major disruption to their existing compliance operations. The initiative also invites contributions from compliance officers, financial intelligence units (FIUs), law enforcement, data scientists, and RegTech developers, creating a collaborative global effort to strengthen financial crime prevention.
AMLTRIX co-founder Gabrielius Erikas Bilkštys said, “We are shifting the industry from isolated defence to collective intelligence. AMLTRIX is not another proprietary tool; it’s a foundational movement to create a smarter, more connected AML community. Instead of 100 banks individually trying to define and fight complex laundering, our framework provides one of its 56 core typologies that all of them can use as a common language to identify and report the threat.”
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