Trade-Based Money Laundering Detection demo
One shipment drawn twice, its route strip and its unit price on the market band, with the innocent explanation tested before anyone decides 1:34
What the demo shows
Trade AML teams find mispricing, odd routes and circular trades and write up the case
Four specialist agents work the same transaction in parallel. A Pricing agent normalizes the declared price to a price per kilogram, builds the market band for the goods code from public trade statistics and plots the customer's own history against it. A Route agent reads the bill of lading, pulls the voyage records and tests each transshipment against the direct service on that corridor. A Party agent links applicant, beneficiary, shipper, notify party and payer across eighteen months of credits, collections and wires, looking for value that returns and payers nobody named. A Document agent lists each mismatch and unexplained amendment. Then a Challenger agent writes the most likely innocent explanation for each flag, names the document that would prove it and looks for it in the file, aiming to clear three alerts in four with the explanation on the record. A Case writer assembles the narrative with a numbered exhibit on each sentence. The Trade AML Investigator decides; the BSA Officer approves the escalation and decides the SAR; trade operations never see that a case exists.
Transcript
- Trade-Based Money Laundering Detection finds mispricing, odd routes and circular trades.
- FinCEN counted seventeen thousand trade-laundering reports: two hundred seventy-six billion dollars.
- Banks see documents, never goods. One shipment, told in two pictures.
- The route: Ningbo, Jebel Ali, Houston — a third-party payer on the last leg.
- The price: eighteen forty a kilogram, against a band of two ten to three sixty.
- The customer's own nine shipments, the gray ticks, sit inside it.
- Four agents worked in parallel: price, route, parties, documents — each citing its source.
- The Challenger argues back: a specialty grade would explain it. No certificate exists.
- Marisol escalates with a reason code, and signs.
- The BSA Officer approves. Nobody approves their own, and trade operations never see it.
- Eleven cited exhibits, a decision on day four, every closure signed.
- Built on Botminds: agents, data, screens and governance on one platform.
The narration as written for the film. Captions are on the player.