The paper examines how a breach of a single AI vendor—used by banks for fraud screening, credit decisions, AML triage, customer analytics, and internal support—can spread through operational, informational, and financial links, ultimately causing losses that resemble a traditional banking crisis. It introduces a four‑layer heterogeneous network linking AI vendors, banks, interbank exposures, and customer accounts, and presents CFC‑Prop, a stochastic epidemic‑and‑clearing model that reproduces heavy‑tailed loss distributions and sensitivity to patch latency on a synthetic dataset of 60 vendors, 220 banks, and 1,400 interbank exposures. Additionally, the authors develop CFC‑GNN, an early‑warning graph‑based model that predicts high‑cascade‑risk vendors with AUROC 0.82 and AUPRC 0.60, and they release all code, data, and scripts for reproducibility.
By Alex Leytes
arXiv:2606. 17555v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Banks simultaneously face signature-based fraud (card-not-present attacks, account takeover, ATM cloning) and behavioural financial crime (structuring, layering, mule networks, business email compromise) -- two threat families with fundamentally different detection requirements.
By Joseph Walusimbi, Joshua Benjamin Ssentongo
arXiv:2608. 20271v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid proliferation of memecoins on blockchain platforms has increased the risk of fraudulent activities, particularly rug pulls.
By Jianghai Li, Pavel Kuznetsov, Yury Yanovich, Konstantin Nott-Whaley, Igor Vodolazov
arXiv:2604. 17420v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Money laundering poses severe risks to global financial systems, driving the widespread adoption of machine learning for transaction monitoring.
By Keyang Chen, Mingxuan Jiang, Yongsheng Zhao, Zeping Li, Zaiyuan Chen, Weiqi Luo, Zhixin Li, Sen Liu, Yinan Jing, Guangnan Ye, Xihong Wu, Hongfeng Chai
arXiv:2608.30364v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Retail banking attrition is usually represented as a terminal binary event, even though client relationships often weaken earlier through partial movem...
By Ananyaa Chopra, Brandon Xu, Brendan Yuen, Lauren Zung, Sarabroop Aulakh
arXiv:2607. 10317v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Algorithmic decision systems in financial services often rely on data proxies that inadvertently encode structural inequalities.
By Muhammad Abdullahi Said
arXiv:2607. 19350v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Financial institutions face significant challenges in detecting sophisticated money laundering patterns, such as smurfing and layering, due to extreme data imbalance (0.
By Mariam Zakaria Moussa Ali
The paper presents a method for early detection of fraudulent memecoins (rug pulls) on the Solana blockchain, using a dataset of 6.4 million tokens collected over seven months. It shows that most rug pulls occur within an hour of launch and that classic machine learning models, especially Gradient Boosting (XGBoost), can reliably predict them using only the first five minutes of trading data. Cross‑platform data fusion between PumpFun and Raydium further improves detection by reducing domain shift.
arXiv:2606. 16663v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Money laundering through insurance claims poses a threat to insurers both through fraudulent payouts and reputational and regulatory risk.
By Dara Goldar, Geir Kjetil Ferkingstad Sandve, Martin Jullum
arXiv:2607. 19266v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Fraud detection systems must scale with rising transaction volume while remaining explainable and reviewable.
By Rahil Sharma
arXiv:2607. 10131v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Money laundering threatens financial stability and exposes institutions to penalties, motivating automated detection.
By Lidia Losavio, Francesco Sovrano, Dario Fenoglio, Martin Gjoreski, Marc Langheinrich
arXiv:2607. 13469v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The banking sector increasingly relies on automated systems to monitor electronic transactions for signs of fraud, yet conventional rule-based approaches struggle with high false-positive rates and offer no justification for their outputs, limiting their utility for compliance teams.
By Anupa Lodhi