Systems and methods for investigating and evaluating financial crime and sanctions-related risks

Abstract

A research, analysis, regulatory compliance and media platform that connects customers to finished research and analysis produced by subject matter experts is described. The platform facilitates research, investigations, and analysis by creating a single environment in which a group of distributed analysts conduct research and investigations, store and retrieve documents and other sources, collaborate, and publish findings. Consumers are able to query a published knowledge graph, surface high value relationships, and access insights captured by analyst through a customer web portal or external production environment. The platform allows analysts and customers to research and map the commercial, financial, and facilitation networks of sanctioned or other actors that may be associated with illicit activity. Customers can access visual graphs depicting relationships between sanctioned and non-sanctioned actors in order to evaluate their possible exposure to financial crime or sanctions-related risks.

1 . A computer-implemented system comprising:
 a document library implemented on a computer configured with volatile and non-volatile memory; the document library is configured to communicate with different data sources over a network to receive financial crime and sanctions-related risk information to be reviewed by users, and save received information for use in identifying nodes, edges, and properties;   wherein the data sources include government sanctions lists, court records, records of incorporation, corporate filings, shipping records, news, websites, public social media postings, and multi-media; and   wherein the received information includes multimedia from a newspaper or other data source, a link to the multimedia, or information about the multimedia, and   Wherein the system is configured to implement an environment that permits users to retrieve the information from the document library and is configured to allow users to view information saved by other users or have restrictions in place that limit access of users, to include an approval process for the saved information, and to determine whether a user is authorized to access the system and the level of access of the user.