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    <a href="https://financialcrime.lu/scholar/2026/04/2026-04-07-Research-Recurrence-Scale-and-Risk-Based-Monitoring-in-ML/index.html">
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        <h2 class="card-title h4 serif-font"><a href="https://financialcrime.lu/scholar/2026/04/2026-04-07-Research-Recurrence-Scale-and-Risk-Based-Monitoring-in-ML/index.html">Recurrence, Scale, and Risk-Based Monitoring in Money Laundering: Temporal Displacement under Cumulative Enforcement</a></h2>
        <p class="card-text text-muted">How AML reshapes the timing of laundering Modern anti-money laundering (AML) practice evaluates transactions in...</p>
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                By  <span class="post-name" style="white-space:nowrap;"> Bastian Schwind-Wagner, </span>
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        <h2 class="card-title h4 serif-font"><a href="https://financialcrime.lu/scholar/2026/03/2026-03-28-Research-Hidden-Ownership-in-Suspicious-Transactions/index.html">Hidden Ownership in Suspicious Transactions - Experimental Evidence on AML Reporting Priorities in Norway</a></h2>
        <p class="card-text text-muted">Hidden ownership underestimated: Norwegian AML professionals rank origin of funds above beneficial ownership Concealing who...</p>
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                By  <span class="post-name" style="white-space:nowrap;"> Bastian Schwind-Wagner, </span>
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        <h2 class="card-title h4 serif-font"><a href="https://financialcrime.lu/scholar/2026/03/2026-03-24-Research-Governing-ML-as-a-Collective-Action-Problem/index.html">EJRR ¦ Governing Money Laundering as a Collective-Action Problem: The AMLA</a></h2>
        <p class="card-text text-muted">Governing money laundering as a collective-action problem – What AMLA means for Europe’s fight against...</p>
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                By  <span class="post-name" style="white-space:nowrap;"> Bastian Schwind-Wagner, </span>
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        <h2 class="card-title h4 serif-font"><a href="https://financialcrime.lu/scholar/2026/03/2026-03-20-trigeko-Transnational-ML-Flows-Involving-Germany/index.html">trigeko ¦ Study on Transnational ML Flows: Is Germany an Attractive Destination?</a></h2>
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                By  <span class="post-name" style="white-space:nowrap;"> Bastian Schwind-Wagner, </span>
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        <h2 class="card-title h4 serif-font"><a href="https://financialcrime.lu/scholar/2026/03/2026-03-16-Research-Fraud-Detection-Framework-for-Blockchain-Finance/index.html">Fraud Detection Framework for Blockchain Finance: Tackling Arbitrage, Liquidity Exploits, and Money Laundering</a></h2>
        <p class="card-text text-muted">Protecting DeFi: An AI‑Driven Framework to Prevent Arbitrage, Liquidity Drains, and Crypto Money Laundering Blockchain’s...</p>
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                By  <span class="post-name" style="white-space:nowrap;"> Bastian Schwind-Wagner, </span>
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        <h2 class="card-title h4 serif-font"><a href="https://financialcrime.lu/scholar/2026/03/2026-03-12-Research-Exploring-TBML-Research/index.html">IJARBM ¦ Exploring Trade-Based Money Laundering Research: A Bibliometric Review</a></h2>
        <p class="card-text text-muted">Exploring the Growing Research Landscape of Trade‑Based Money Laundering Trade‑based money laundering (TBML) exploits the...</p>
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        <h2 class="card-title h4 serif-font"><a href="https://financialcrime.lu/scholar/2026/03/2026-03-03-BIS-From-Cash-to-Crypto/index.html">BIS ¦ From Cash to Crypto: Towards a Consistent Regulatory Approach to Illicit Payments</a></h2>
        <p class="card-text text-muted">From cash to crypto – aligning AML/CFT rules across payment instruments Payments vary not only...</p>
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        <h2 class="card-title h4 serif-font"><a href="https://financialcrime.lu/scholar/2026/02/2026-02-23-Research-Political-Stability-and-Money-Laundering-Risk/index.html">Political Stability and Money Laundering Risk</a></h2>
        <p class="card-text text-muted">Why Stability Matters for Effective AML Money laundering remains a pervasive threat to financial integrity,...</p>
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        <h2 class="card-title h4 serif-font"><a href="https://financialcrime.lu/scholar/2026/02/2026-02-10-Research-CRAAFT-TF-in-the-Age-of-LLMs/index.html">Terrorist Financing in the Age of Large Language Models</a></h2>
        <p class="card-text text-muted">Why LLMs matter for terrorist financing Large language models (LLMs) do not themselves commit violence,...</p>
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        <h2 class="card-title h4 serif-font"><a href="https://financialcrime.lu/scholar/2026/02/2026-02-03-Research-Accounting-Scripts-and-the-Politics-of-Compliance/index.html">Accounting Scripts and the Politics of Compliance: Understanding Accountants’ Roles in AML through Sentiment and Script Theory</a></h2>
        <p class="card-text text-muted">How accountants shaped anti‑money laundering in Canada’s non‑banking sectors Accountants are frequently discussed as procedural...</p>
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        <h2 class="card-title h4 serif-font"><a href="https://financialcrime.lu/scholar/2026/01/2026-01-30-Research-Hybrid-Deep-Learning-for-Anti-Money-Laundering/index.html">Hybrid Deep Learning for AML: Unsupervised Detection of Emerging Schemes via Feature Fusion and Explainable Artificial Intelligence</a></h2>
        <p class="card-text text-muted">From rules to signals: hybrid deep learning for practical AML detection Traditional rule-based anti-money laundering...</p>
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        <h2 class="card-title h4 serif-font"><a href="https://financialcrime.lu/scholar/2026/01/2026-01-13-Research-Detecting-Illicit-Transactions-in-Bitcoin/index.html">Detecting Illicit Transactions in Bitcoin: A Wavelet-Temporal Graph Transformer Approach for Anti-Money Laundering</a></h2>
        <p class="card-text text-muted">Detecting illicit bitcoin transactions Anti‑money laundering for cryptocurrencies remains a pressing problem: blockchains provide transparent...</p>
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        <p class="card-text text-muted">GB-Enabled Photonics: A New Frontier for Fighting Money Laundering and Financial Fraud Financial institutions and...</p>
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        <h2 class="card-title h4 serif-font"><a href="https://financialcrime.lu/scholar/2025/12/2025-12-22-Research-Federated-Learning-Architectures/index.html">Federated Learning Architectures for Privacy Preserving Financial Fraud Detection Systems</a></h2>
        <p class="card-text text-muted">What Practitioners Need to Know Financial institutions face fraud that is more complex, faster and...</p>
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