Information on cross-border financial transactions, covering transaction amounts, participating institutions, involved countries, currencies, settlement processes, and account relationships. This data is typically collected from banks, payment processors, and other intermediaries through correspondent banking relationships.
Correspondent and Cross-Border Transaction Data
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- Contains details on cross-border transfers, including involved jurisdictions, currencies, and settlement processes.
- Helps identify international layering or rapid fund displacement associated with advance fee fraud proceeds, particularly when scammers move victim payments offshore quickly to evade detection.
- Documents cross-border payment flows, intermediary banks, and settlement routes.
- Exposes hidden or layered transactions processed through multiple payment service providers.
- Supports deeper scrutiny of foreign-based agents and sub-agents masking the ultimate origin or destination of funds.
Covers international transactions routed through correspondent banking relationships, including originating and beneficiary institutions, involved countries, and transaction amounts.
Enables tracing of funds flowing to or from known conflict zones or arms-producing regions, revealing high-risk corridors associated with illicit arms trade.
Contains comprehensive information on cross-border financial transactions, including details on participating institutions, origin and destination countries, currencies, settlement processes, and account relationships. Given the rapid rerouting of funds across multiple jurisdictions in automated layering schemes, this data is essential for detecting suspicious multi-jurisdictional flows and identifying potentially orchestrated cross-border transactions designed to obscure illicit origins.
Covers multi-jurisdictional financial flows linked to Bill of Exchange arrangements, including transaction pathways, intermediary banks, and cross-border payment details. This data can reveal layering and circuitous routes typical of trade-based money laundering.
Data Provided: Information on international financial transactions, intermediary banks, payer/payee details, settlement processes, involved jurisdictions, and currency flows.
Direct AML Relevance: Uncovers third-party or intermediary payments common in Black Market Peso Exchange, revealing cross-border transfers that bypass regulated channels or official exchange rates.
Includes cross-border payment details, such as jurisdictional information, currency flows, and transaction relationships, revealing if bond proceeds or interest payments are routed to high-risk or offshore locations without a clear business rationale.
Captures details of cross-border financial movements, including intermediary banks, involved jurisdictions, and transaction routes. This helps identify layered investments passing through multiple accounts or high-risk regions before reaching the target business.
- Contains records of international wire transfers, including sending/receiving banks, jurisdictions, amounts, and timestamps.
- Directly helps identify patterns of cross-border funds movement into jurisdictions offering CBI/RBI.
- Supports investigations by revealing high-risk corridors or unusually large inbound transfers that may indicate illicit funds being deployed to secure new residency or citizenship status.
- Contains details of cross-border transactions, including amounts, currencies, involved financial institutions, and beneficiary jurisdictions.
- Crucial for detecting rapid, complex fund flows across multiple countries linked to carbon credit payments and immediate transfers through special-purpose vehicles.
- Captures details of cross-border funds transfers (e.g., amounts, involved banks, jurisdictions).
- Permits identification of repetitive or circular money flows across multiple accounts in different countries.
- Reveals patterns consistent with carousel fraud's cyclical trade and VAT-based illicit proceeds.
- Contains details of international financial transactions, including amounts, currencies, geographic routing, and participating financial institutions.
- Assists in uncovering cross-border layering and complex payment flows commonly used to conceal illicit proceeds from child exploitation.
- Captures transaction amounts, originating and beneficiary institutions, jurisdictions involved, and settlement processes.
- Helps identify chains of letters of credit across multiple banks by tracking cross-border issuance and usage.
- Reveals circular or closed-loop structures when funds revert to the original source under the guise of trade finance.
- Tracks cross-border transactions, routes, intermediary banks, and jurisdictions used.
- Aids in spotting convoluted routing paths across multiple jurisdictions often used in layering and circular transactions.
Captures international payment flows, including sending institutions, beneficiary details, and intermediary banks. Investigators can trace how illicit proceeds from smuggled goods are routed through multiple jurisdictions, bypassing standard trade finance channels.
- Covers international transaction details, including amounts, counterparties, currencies, and involved institutions.
- Enables pinpointing regions or corridors linked to high-risk commodity trafficking routes.
- Assists in identifying unusual cross-border flows not aligned with legitimate trade activities.
- Documents cross-border payments, correspondent banking relationships, transaction volumes, and currency flows.
- Helps detect excessive or complex layering of funds through multiple MSB or correspondent accounts beyond established business needs.
- Supports AML investigations by highlighting international movement of funds indicative of controlled or complicit MSBs facilitating hidden beneficiaries.
Provides detailed records of cross-border wires, including originator and beneficiary details, amounts, currencies, involved institutions, and settlement processes. This helps detect frequent or suspicious patterns, identify missing or incomplete originator/beneficiary data, and flag potential layering or infiltration of illicit funds within the correspondent banking chain.
Tracks international fund movements, including originating and beneficiary institutions, currencies, and settlement details. This data is crucial for identifying high-risk cross-border transfers tied to corrupt officials moving illicit proceeds offshore.
Details cross-border funds flow and participating financial institutions, facilitating the detection of suspicious international transfers linked to unregulated pharmaceutical shipments or payments.
Includes cross-border financial transactions, participating institutions, currencies, and settlement details. This data helps investigators:
- Identify missing or anomalous payment records, suggesting the use of informal channels for settlement.
- Track the movement of funds across jurisdictions to expose potential laundering patterns.
Captures details of cross-border financial transactions, including intermediary or offshore routing, involved institutions, and currencies.
How it supports AML detection:
- Detects settlement proceeds channeled through unusual jurisdictions or third-party accounts.
- Highlights inconsistencies in payment flow timelines, suggesting possible manipulation of the legal process to launder illicit funds via offshore accounts.
- Provides comprehensive records of cross-border transactions, detailing intermediary banks, involved countries, currencies, and settlement processes.
- Identifies complex, multi-jurisdictional transaction chains executed by local sub-agents.
- Enhances AML monitoring by revealing unusual cross-border flows lacking legitimate economic rationale.
Provides detailed records of international funds transfers, including amounts, participant institutions, routing details, and settlement processes. Investigators can:
- Compare electronically transferred funds with declared cash movements to uncover inconsistencies.
- Detect layering attempts by tracing cross-border flows through multiple jurisdictions.
- Identify suspicious patterns in cross-border transactions that do not align with legitimate business activities or declared sums.
This data includes cross-border transaction amounts, participating institutions, involved countries, currencies, settlement processes, and account relationships. It enables tracing of intermediary banks and jurisdictions used within transaction chains, identifying anomalies such as omitted standardized data fields, routing through high-risk jurisdictions, and layering across multiple regulators.
- Details cross-border payments, including amounts, countries, bank intermediaries, and settlement references.
- Facilitates the detection of mismatches between declared shipping/invoice data and actual cross-border funds movement, flagging manipulated settlement documents.
- Details cross-border remittances, including intermediary banks, jurisdictions, and settlement processes.
- Identifies unexplained routing changes or partial arrivals consistent with hijacked inbound transfers typical of cuckoo smurfing.
- Captures cross-border wire transfers involving different countries and currencies.
- Facilitates the identification of multi-jurisdictional layering by linking currency conversion activities to subsequent international transfers.
- Enables the detection of high-risk patterns where criminals quickly move converted funds to foreign accounts.
Captures details of cross-border payment flows and correspondent banking relationships, helping identify:
- Rapid transfers of pooled funds from multiple sources to overseas accounts for high-value goods purchases.
- Patterns of rotating beneficiary accounts distributing payments for suspected Daigou shipments.
Analysts can detect unusual inflows and outflows indicative of money laundering through surrogate shopping or unregistered trade channels.
- Covers cross-border payment flows, detailing sending and receiving institutions, involved countries, amounts, and settlement timelines.
- Helps reveal potential layering of smuggled diamond proceeds through multiple jurisdictions or financial institutions.
- Details cross-border payments, correspondent banking arrangements, and involved jurisdictions.
- Helps identify high-frequency or repeated payments linked to the same diamond shipments, indicating potential layering.
- Tracks cross-border payment flows, including involved banks, currencies, and jurisdictions.
- Identifies unusual routing or fragmentation of payments tied to documentary collection transactions.
- Helps uncover multi-bank involvement or transactions lacking commercial rationale, indicative of possible manipulations.
- Contains records of international financial transfers, including intermediaries, involved countries, and transaction details.
- Helps detect structuring or layering across multiple jurisdictions commonly used to obscure drug proceeds.
- Supports tracing funds back to their origin or through complex networks of correspondent accounts linked to drug syndicates.
- Records cross-border and correspondent banking flows associated with insurance premium payments and policy payouts.
- Flags transactions from or to high-risk jurisdictions, indicating potential layering through multiple regions.
- Contains information on cross-border transfers, intermediary banks, involved countries, currencies, and settlement instructions.
- Allows detection of repeated or high-value flows from jurisdictions with weak AML oversight, consistent with multi-jurisdiction layering in entertainment ventures.
- Aids in monitoring suspicious routes of foreign revenue inflows purportedly from ticket sales or licensing abroad.
- Tracks international financial transfers, including intermediary banks, ultimate beneficiaries, and cross-border account relationships.
- Identifies complex layering or routing patterns used to shuttle inflated export proceeds to unrelated third-party accounts.
- Helps pinpoint final destinations of suspicious cross-border payments.
- Provide details on cross-border money flows, beneficiaries, and involved financial institutions.
- Expose international transfers from or to suspicious jurisdictions.
- Help confirm whether the rapid cross-border movement of funds aligns with a fake job scheme.
- Covers routing details, involved financial institutions, originating countries, and settlement processes for cross-border transactions.
- Identifies funds sourced from or passing through offshore financial centers with lax AML controls, indicating potentially illicit foreign investments.
Information tracks international fund transfers, detailing intermediary banks, routing paths, currencies, and involved jurisdictions. This data allows investigators to trace complex cross-border flows under the guise of M&A deals, exposing potential layering or concealment tactics common in fictitious or inflated M&A transactions.
- Data Provided: Details on cross-border payment flows, corresponding financial institutions, and involved jurisdictions.
- AML Relevance: Tracks complex international fund transfers that may indicate layering attempts via fictitious trade routes, highlighting risky jurisdictional patterns.
- Captures information on cross-border payments, correspondent banking relationships, and involved jurisdictions.
- Highlights unusual payment flows and layering across multiple countries when funds pass through FTZs.
- Provides details to confirm whether declared routing aligns with legitimate business needs.
- Tracks cross-border payments, involved institutions, jurisdictions, and transaction details.
- Identifies unsubstantiated foreign transfers or high-value cross-border flows inconsistent with the stated commercial profile, indicative of potential front company laundering.
- Contains information on international transaction flows passing through correspondent banking channels, including amounts, sending/receiving institutions, and involved countries.
- Reveals cross-border deposits and subsequent fund transfers that may hide illicit proceeds.
- Supports investigations into the rapid movement of aggregated funds across multiple financial institutions abroad.
- Contains information on cross-border transactions, including origin and destination countries, currencies, involved banks, and transaction volumes.
- Highlights inconsistencies in cross-border gold transfers and identifies geographic anomalies not aligned with the customer's profile or business.
Captures cross-border transaction details and intermediary relationships, revealing potentially unlicensed or informal channels used in hawala arrangements, where funds are transferred across jurisdictions outside formal banking routes.
- Consolidates cross-border transaction details, including institutions involved, countries of origin and destination, currencies, and settlement processes.
This data helps expose net settlement flows across multiple jurisdictions that bypass standard banking or MSB channels, a hallmark of Hot Transfers.
- Provide details of funds transfers between different jurisdictions, including amounts, participating institutions, and settlement processes.
- Help identify large or frequent transnational movements inconsistent with normal business activities, which are common in trafficking networks.
- Aid in tracing layered transactions across multiple borders to obscure illicit origins.
Captures cross-border payment details, including origin and beneficiary banks, involved jurisdictions, and transaction values. By analyzing international flows, it highlights the transnational layering of illegal logging proceeds and flags unusual routing patterns.
Provides details of cross-border wires and related transactions, including amounts, originating and destination countries, and financial intermediaries. This data helps identify suspicious or high-value cross-border transfers linked to antiquities transactions that do not match the customer’s declared business operations.
- Details international transaction pathways, counterparties, and intermediary banks.
- Identifies cross-border layering or structuring through multiple jurisdictions to disguise illicit proceeds within in-game economies.
Captures details of cross-border transactions, participating institutions, involved jurisdictions, and newly added correspondent banking relationships. This information helps detect infiltration by revealing sudden growth in high-risk cross-border activities or the rapid expansion of correspondent ties in jurisdictions known for lax AML enforcement, indicating criminals leveraging a controlled institution to layer illicit funds.
- Includes detailed records of cross-border transactions, participating financial institutions, currencies, and settlement processes.
- Facilitates identification of repetitive or high-volume international flows to jurisdictions associated with hawala or other IVTS.
- Assists in flagging unusual settlement patterns bypassing standard wire transfers or regulated channels.
- Tracks cross-border reinsurance payments to detect unusually large or frequent transactions.
- Highlights offshore reinsurance flows potentially aimed at hiding illicit proceeds or layering schemes.
- Captures transaction details for cross-border payments, including amounts, originating and beneficiary banks, jurisdictions, and settlement routes.
- Enables monitoring of funds transferred from offshore sources into foreign real estate acquisitions.
- Helps detect unusual cross-border flows potentially linked to laundering via foreign property holdings.
- Information on international wires, intermediary banks, and beneficiary locations.
- Allows tracing of funds routed through multiple jurisdictions, highlighting layering patterns or transfers to secrecy havens often used by illicit private funds.
- Details transactions routed through correspondent banks or cross-border channels, identifying sending institutions, recipient accounts, and countries of origin/destination.
- Reveals large incoming transfers from high-risk or non-cooperative jurisdictions specifically directed into CBI/RBI-related accounts, supporting scrutiny of unexplained inflows.
Tracks cross-border financial flows, including involved institutions, jurisdictions, settlement processes, and currency exchanges. By examining these transaction records, investigators can pinpoint complex layering across multiple jurisdictions, detect irregular fund movements, and identify unsubstantiated cross-border investment transfers.
Encompasses cross-border transaction details, including amounts, jurisdictions, and participating institutions. Identifies partial transaction patterns spread across different banks or countries, revealing a lack of a unified overview and indicating possible knowledge compartmentalization.
Documents cross-border wires and transactions routed through multiple institutions or jurisdictions. Investigators can identify structuring or layering across remittance channels—a common tactic in lottery scams—by tracing the flow of funds associated with suspicious accounts or recurring scam references in payment details.
- Provides detailed information on cross-border financial transfers, including involved institutions, sending/receiving jurisdictions, and transaction amounts.
- Assists in identifying suspicious international wires, multi-jurisdictional layering, or unusual volumes linked to smuggling routes.
Provides details of cross-border funds transfers, including sending and receiving financial institutions, involved countries, currencies, amounts, and settlement processes. This information is vital for tracing value shifts across jurisdictions following or in conjunction with mirror trading, revealing suspicious layering or rapid flow of proceeds internationally.
- Capture information on interbank and international transfers, including originating and beneficiary institutions, countries, and transaction amounts.
- Expose patterns of offshore layering or funneling public monies to secrecy jurisdictions where funds are harder to trace.
Provides detailed records of international transaction flows, including originating and beneficiary institutions, involved countries, currencies, and settlement processes. This data helps identify cross-border funds movement indicative of multi-jurisdictional money mule networks, revealing patterns where mules funnel illicit proceeds through multiple accounts across different regions.
Captures cross-border payment flows, including involved jurisdictions, transaction amounts, and counterparties. By highlighting frequent shifts between countries with varying AML regulations, this data helps identify structured layering strategies that exploit less-regulated corridors.
Comprises records of cross-border payments, including transaction details, currencies, involved countries, and counterparties. Reviewing this data alongside identity documents can highlight instances where an individual alternates between different nationalities or passports when directing funds internationally, signaling potential evasion of consistent due diligence controls.
- Covers cross-border financial transactions with details on amounts, currencies, jurisdictions, settlement chains, and account relationships.
- Helps identify repeated cross-border layering or jurisdiction mismatches in currency conversion flows, supporting the investigation of structured transactions routed through multiple countries.
Details cross-border payment flows, correspondent banking relationships, and participating financial entities. This data helps identify overlapping financing of the same shipment or services through different institutions, which is a key indicator of multiple invoicing activity.
Captures cross-border financial flows, detailing transaction amounts, locations, and intermediary institutions. Analysis can reveal patterns where funds move among multiple jurisdictions without transparent business purposes, consistent with NEP’s rapid cross-currency exchanges.
Captures cross-border fund transfers, including correspondent banking details, originating and destination countries, and transaction amounts. This data reveals suspicious cross-border flows into or out of offshore insurance policies.
Captures cross-border transaction details, covering participating financial institutions, currencies, and settlement processes. Analyzing these records reveals foreign reloads, withdrawals, and transfers linked to offshore e-wallets or prepaid cards, highlighting potential layering through secrecy jurisdictions.
Details cross-border transactions, including intermediary and beneficiary institutions, currencies, and involved jurisdictions. This data:
- Reveals multi-hop routing through multiple foreign banks to disguise fund origins.
- Highlights repeated correspondent relationships in high-secrecy jurisdictions.
- Aids in tracing complex layering schemes involving offshore financial institutions.
- Consolidates cross-border payment flows, including involved financial institutions, jurisdictions, currencies, and settlement information.
- Pinpoints high-risk or secrecy jurisdictions in transaction chains, helping to track layered or repeated transfers designed to obscure beneficial ownership.
- Supports the investigation of offshore or secrecy exploitation by maintaining a clear record of international money movements and counterparty relationships.
- Documents financial transfers across multiple jurisdictions, including originating and beneficiary institutions, as well as settlement details.
- Helps identify the rapid movement of funds that are disproportionate to legitimate oil business structures.
- Provides insight into networks or payment channels frequently used to layer proceeds derived from manipulated oil transactions.
- Contains details on cross-border wires, correspondent banking relationships, intermediary banks, and settlement processes.
- Reveals the movement of funds to or from high-risk or lightly regulated jurisdictions.
- Assists investigators in tracing complex cross-border layers of gambling-related transactions.
Captures cross-border payments, including settlement details, involved institutions, and participating jurisdictions. This data assists in detecting significant inbound or outbound transfers routed through OTC brokers, potentially indicating unregulated international flows.
Captures details of international pension contributions and cross-border transfers, including amounts, currencies, and involved institutions. This enables the detection of funds rapidly moving across jurisdictions and identifies layering patterns indicative of potential money laundering within pension schemes.
- Contains details of cross-border payments, including intermediary banks, countries of origin/destination, currencies, and settlement methods.
- Detects rapid layering of funds across multiple jurisdictions to obscure origins, a common tactic in pig butchering.
- Assists in tracing international pathways that lack commercial or personal justification.
Details of international wire transfers, including transaction amounts, involved countries, intermediaries, and settlement processes. This data reveals how ransom funds may be moved across multiple jurisdictions, aiding in detecting layered flows aimed at concealing illicit maritime piracy proceeds.
- Documents cross-border financial flows, including involved jurisdictions and intermediary banks.
- Helps track offshore payment routes and identify secrecy-prone regions, exposing layering or other steps undertaken to obscure the origin of illicit funds in image rights deals.
Contains information on cross-border financial transactions and the institutions involved, covering origins, destinations, currencies, and settlement details. This data assists in:
- Identifying frequent or high-value movement of precious metals or gemstones across jurisdictions incongruent with a customer’s usual operations.
- Detecting trade flows through high-risk or non-transparent channels.
- Tracing cross-border patterns consistent with layering and integration strategies.
Captures international wire transfers, participating countries, and associated beneficiaries or intermediaries. Highlights rapid or high-volume fund movements routed through proxy-held accounts to obscure the original source or beneficial owner.
- Captures transaction flows between different jurisdictions, currencies, and financial institutions.
- Reveals cross-border elements in real estate purchases and sales, helping trace the origin of funds when flipping properties through escrow.
Captures international fund transfers across multiple institutions. Monitoring these flows is critical for tracing how red/green clause LC proceeds are rapidly dispersed, layered, or redirected to diverse jurisdictions without a clear commercial purpose.
- Details cross-border payments, including sending and receiving institutions, countries involved, transaction amounts, and frequency.
- Helps identify unusual or frequent overseas transfers associated with mule accounts, particularly those lacking legitimate business or personal rationale.
- Provides comprehensive views of cross-border transactions, including sending/receiving institutions, countries, currencies, and settlement details.
- Identifies the geographic dispersion of remittances and traces funds converging on a single beneficiary.
- Aids in uncovering layering strategies that leverage multiple regions to obscure the origin of illicit proceeds.
Captures details of cross-border financial transactions, including currencies, amounts, originators, beneficiaries, and participating financial institutions. This data helps identify sanctioned or high-risk jurisdictions and uncovers potential sanctions evasion by analyzing transaction patterns and corridors.
- Details cross-border financial transactions, including currencies, intermediary banks, and originating/destination jurisdictions.
- Identifies complex routing patterns through offshore accounts or high-risk locations, consistent with layering practices.
- Enables detection of multi-jurisdictional payment flows lacking valid business justification.
- Captures cross-border wire transfers, including origin and destination institutions and jurisdictions.
- Helps trace complex layering through multiple shell entities across different countries.
- Identifies high-volume or frequent transfers that lack a legitimate economic purpose.
Provides details on inbound and outbound wire transfers, including sender/receiver information, amounts, currencies, and jurisdictions. This data supports smurfing detection by:
- Detecting frequent small-value cross-border transfers that may be structured.
- Identifying elements of cuckoo smurfing where legitimate inbound remittances are co-opted to disguise illicit funds.
- Details cross-border transfers, currencies, and financial intermediaries connected to sponsorship or image-rights payments.
- Highlights repeated inflows from high-risk jurisdictions and offshore accounts, aligning with known methods of layering illicit funds through international sports deals.
- Logs cross-border remittances, participating banks, currencies, and settlement details.
- Helps detect unreported offshore flows or profit shifting across jurisdictions designed to minimize tax liabilities.
- Covers cross-border payment information, including foreign currency flows and remittance channels.
- Identifies unlicensed or informal pathways used to route tax refunds offshore, potentially avoiding regulatory scrutiny.
- Reveals patterns of layering and fund diversion involving international transfers.
- Tracks cross-border fund flows and intermediary banks for timeshare fee transactions.
- Identifies payments to offshore jurisdictions or accounts with no legitimate business rationale.
- Highlights unusual international transfer patterns inconsistent with genuine real estate or closing services.
- Details cross-border transactions routed through correspondent banks, including settlement processes and involved institutions.
- Enhances visibility of multi-jurisdictional layering often used in trade finance manipulation.
- Reveals unusual cross-border flows that deviate from legitimate trade activity or established routes.
- Contains settlement and routing details for international payments, including involved countries, intermediary banks, and transaction amounts.
- Assists in identifying complex or layered payment structures that may facilitate or mask misinvoiced trade flows.
- Provides details on cross-border transactions, including amounts, involved countries, and intermediary institutions.
- Enables detection of frequent or high-risk cross-jurisdictional transfers, a hallmark of Transaction Chaining.
- Assists investigators in identifying unusual multi-jurisdictional transaction routes that lack economic justification.
- Details on cross-border fund flows, including amounts, counterparties, jurisdictions, and payment intermediaries.
- Aids in identifying repetitive or circuitous inter-company transfers that may indicate artificially layered transactions or inflated/deflated transfer pricing across multiple jurisdictions.
- Contains records of cross-border transactions, including sending and receiving institutions, jurisdictions, and transaction amounts.
- Detects unregistered MSBs moving funds internationally without proper oversight.
- Identifies questionable or high-risk inter-jurisdictional payment flows commonly exploited by illicit MSBs.
Provides information on cross-border fund flows and correspondent banking relationships. By examining transaction routes, involved jurisdictions, and unusually high volumes for intangible entities, investigators can uncover red flags consistent with online-only enterprises operating in secrecy-friendly regions.
Captures cross-border transaction details, such as origin and destination countries, intermediary banks, currencies, and settlement paths. This helps identify multi-jurisdictional layering or suspicious rerouting of funds via virtual IBANs, clarifying the true flow of funds and highlighting potential high-risk regions involved.
- Covers cross-border financial flows, associated institutions, currencies, and settlement processes.
- Enables correlation of stablecoin or token movements with foreign transactions, helping detect abrupt cross-border layering or swift swaps intended to evade oversight.
- Supports identification of uncharacteristic international fund transfers that align with virtual token obfuscation strategies.
- Provides information on cross-border transactions and correspondent banking relationships.
- Reveals patterns of layered transfers across jurisdictions used to distance illicit wildlife proceeds from their origin.
- Facilitates the identification of high-risk corridors or account relationships indicative of laundering activity.
- Details intermediary banks, routing information, and settlement processes for cross-border wires.
- Helps trace funds through multiple financial institutions and countries, revealing the layering chain in wire transfer schemes.