Computer Science ›› 2025, Vol. 52 ›› Issue (10): 60-69.doi: 10.11896/jsjkx.250800009

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Anti-money Laundering Detection Method for Asset Management Based on Temporal Graph Neural Networks

XU Xin1, ZHU Hongbin2, CHEN Jie2, LI Qingwen3, ZHANG Xiaorong1, LYU Zhihui2   

  1. 1 School of Computing and Artificial Intelligence,Shanghai Lixin University of Accounting and Finance,Shanghai 201209,China
    2 College of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence,Fudan University,Shanghai 200433,China
    3 School of Information Management and Engineering,Shanghai University of Finance and Economics,Shanghai 200433,China
  • Received:2025-08-04 Revised:2025-09-13 Online:2025-10-15 Published:2025-10-14
  • About author:XU Xin,born in 1983,Ph.D,associate professor,is a member of CCF(No.J2031M).His main research interest is financial data analysis.
    ZHANG Xiaorong,born in 1994,Ph.D,assistant professor.Her main research interest is data mining.
  • Supported by:
    National Natural Science Foundation of China(61873309),National Key Research and Development Program of China(2023YFC3305304) and Shanghai Science and Technology Innovation Action Plan(24692111100).

Abstract: The asset management industry,characterized by high-frequency and flexible financial operations,has become a primary target for money laundering activities.However,the sparsity of transaction structures,the complexity of implicit fund transfer paths between accounts,and the non-uniform characteristics of transaction behaviors pose significant challenges for traditional graph modeling methods based on explicit relationships.To address these issues,this paper proposes an Anti-money Laundering Detection Framework for Asset Management based on Temporal Graph Neural Networks(AM-GAML).By integrating temporal models with graph neural networks,the proposed framework constructs a joint temporal-structural embedding representation and designs a graph generation mechanism based on implicit interaction relationships.This enables the framework to effectively capture weakly correlated features in transaction records and uncover complex transaction behavior patterns between users.Experimental results on a real-world transaction dataset demonstrate that AM-GAML significantly outperforms several advanced approaches in terms of accuracy,recall,F1-score,and AUPRC.The framework excels particularly in minority class detection and generalization ability.The proposed method provides an efficient and reliable solution for anti-money laundering detection in the asset management industry and offers valuable support for risk prevention and control research in complex financial scenarios.

Key words: Asset management,Anti-money laundering,Temporal model,Graph neural network,Transaction behavior analysis

CLC Number: 

  • TP181
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