AI-enabled methodsAnnual study
AML BenchmarkTake the 8-minute case

Can your team spot today’s money laundering methods?

Put your team through the same case and see which laundering methods they detect, which they miss, and which innocent activity they escalate.

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What an MLRO receives

AML Judgment Gap ReportWealth and Private Banking
Developingbetween a half and three quarters detected
8/19methods the team detects
8 detected3 partial2 missed6 untested
Necrofinance: dead directorsDetected
Loan-back arrangementsDetected
Beneficial ownership obfuscationPartial
Estate administration and probateMissed
TCSPs and professional enablersMissed
Investment migration schemesUntested

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If 20% of your analysts were consistently missing a current laundering method, which part of your existing MI would tell you?

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What your team is measured against
81Money laundering methodsEach one cited to an enforcement notice, judgment or advisory.
40Rarely covered in trainingDocumented by regulators, and absent from standard training libraries.
23Timed casesYou work the file and decide. There are no multiple-choice questions.
11Sectors coveredEach with its own assessment, set in that sector's own work.

Measure a team

Find out which methods are consistently missed across the team, and where unnecessary escalation is occurring.

Cohort results · method-level gaps · over-escalation

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Test yourself

Work The Alert Queue as an analyst would, then read the debrief on what you caught and what you missed.

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Would your team recognise these?

All six are documented. All six are in the assessment.

Company and registry

Necrofinance: dead directors and zombie accounts

The signatory died abroad. The account never stopped.

Signatory statusActive
Deceased screeningUK register only
Last customer contact2017
Company and registry

Ghost Companies: struck off but still transacting

Struck off at the registry, still banking with you.

Checked at onboardingActive
Registry status todayDissolved
Payments since£1.4m
Technology and AI

Synthetic and AI-Generated Onboarding Documents

Statements generated rather than issued by a bank.

Fees and chargesNone in 12 months
Running balanceExact to the penny
Sort code formatInvalid
Technology and AI

Biometric Injection and Liveness Bypass

A video stream fed straight into the liveness check.

Liveness resultPassed
Camera sourceVirtual device
Device fingerprint4 identities
Transaction laundering

Cuckoo Smurfing

Criminal cash paid into an innocent customer's account.

DEP-8841£8,900
Third-party cash, branch counter
Expected remittanceNever arrived
Depositor relationshipNone on file
Transaction laundering

Loan-Back Arrangements

The client's own money returns to them as debt.

Facility£3.1m
Security takenNone
Repayments in 11 yearsZero
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Assessment coverage

Choose your sector

Explore all sectors
68 methods · 23 cases

Banking

Cuckoo SmurfingNewer
Mule Collection and Threshold ConsolidationEstablished
41 methods · 18 cases

Payments and EMIs

Ghost Companies: struck off but still transactingNewer
Turnover Inconsistency Against a Physical MeasureEstablished
18 methods · 11 cases

Trade Finance

AI-Fabricated Corporate PresenceNewer
Beneficial Ownership ObfuscationEstablished
19 methods · 13 cases

Wealth

Necrofinance: dead directors and zombie accountsNewer
High-Value Portable GoodsEstablished
9 methods · 5 cases

Capital Markets

State-Owned Entity Exemption AbuseNewer
Mirror and Arbitrage TradingEstablished
20 methods · 7 cases

Crypto and VASPs

Synthetic and AI-Generated Onboarding DocumentsNewer
Control Probing and Detection-Threshold DiscoveryEstablished
10 methods · 7 cases

Legal

Real Estate: engineered foreclosure and retained controlNewer
Legal and Accountancy Client Account MisuseEstablished
8 methods · 5 cases

Accountancy

Accounts Prepared to Legitimise Falsified RecordsNewer
TCSPs and Professional EnablersEstablished
6 methods · 5 cases

Property and Art

Art and Antiquities: self-dealing at auctionNewer
Fabricated Rental Income and Ghost TenantsEstablished
10 methods · 10 cases

Insurance

Synthetic Identities at ScaleNewer
Bribery Conduits and Consultancy PaymentsEstablished
9 methods · 6 cases

Gambling

Biometric Injection and Liveness BypassNewer
Money Mule Networks and RecruitmentEstablished
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Dive into the evidence

81 methods in the register, 70 of them cited to a regulator, court or agency. The scoring is published in full. Nothing here asks to be taken on trust.

The registerEvery method and its sourceMethodologyHow each case is markedAssessment catalogueAll 23, describedAI-enabled methodsWhere AI changes the method

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