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Whitepapers, essays and features on financial crime, risk, and the AI systems that run at bank scale.

Technical whitepapers hosted here, shorter essays, and selected work published elsewhere.

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Whitepapers 2 pieces
Whitepaper
The Three Pillars of Connected Enterprise Intelligence
Semantic layer, context graph and data: the three pillars every agentic platform needs to act on a bank's complexity.
Read on site Neo4j · May 2026 · 11 min read
Whitepaper
Identity Management at the Speed of the Bank
Why annual access reviews and slow customer authorisation are no longer defensible, and what a connected identity model gives you instead.
Read on site Neo4j · April 2026 · 7 min read
In the Press 6 pieces
Industry Feature ★
Banks are seeking to use AI as a tool for both protection and competition
On the dual mandate facing financial institutions as they move AI from pilot to production.
Financial Times Financial Times · April 2026
Interview
Neo4j Global Head of Finserv Michael Down on the $442bn fraud problem banks can't see
Why the fraud challenge facing banks is not just one of scale, but of visibility.
Retail Banker International Retail Banker International · June 2026
Bylined Article
Industry's spotlight on financial crime's hidden networks
Why graph data models have moved from useful to imperative in how banks fight fraud.
Retail Banker International Retail Banker International · March 2026
Bylined Article
Unlocking hidden connections: the next frontier in financial data strategy
How graph databases help finance firms detect fraud, sharpen compliance and put AI to work by mapping data relationships in real time.
CFOtech UK CFOtech UK · November 2025
Bylined Article
How to stop ghost-brokering and other emerging threats from haunting financial services
Why the fraud that hurts most is graph-shaped, and what connected data catches that legacy detection misses.
Machine Machine · November 2025
Bylined Article
Beating money laundering through data connections
What the laundering schemes in Netflix's The Gentlemen get right, and what catching them in the real world actually takes.
Business Reporter Business Reporter · July 2024