Over the last years, financial crime became a very expensive plague slowing down the advent of the digital society. In 2019, the cost of financial crime was estimated at 1.45 trillions dollards.

Within this context, fighting against frauds, identity theft, or money laundering is a major issue. This fight relies on the analysis of massive sequences of financial transactions aiming at detecting traces of illegal activities such that proper counter measures can be undertaken. Nonetheless, advances in this fight are hindered by a ruthless lack of methods and tools to model and analyze the transactions in a suitable way.

The labcom's primary objective is to lead the scientific and technological advances required to significant progresses in anomaly detection in financial transactions.

Bleckwen and the team ComplexNetworks wish to join their expertise to model and analyze financial transactions as link streams. They are currently developping and implementing the formalisms and algorithms enabling the proper exploitation of these data.