Identification of Suspicious Investors

Fair, Isaac and Company, Inc. Mathematics, 2002-03

Liaison(s): Matthais Blume, Walter Lee
Advisor(s): Henry Krieger
Students(s): Jonathan Nadel (PM), Brie Finger, Shea Lawrence, Michael Vrable

The USA PATRIOT Act, drafted in response to the September 11 terror attacks, mandates that banks more closely scrutinize their transactions to prevent terrorist money laundering. Fair, Isaac and Company, Inc., a pioneer in analy-tical banking software, is therefore interested in developing technology to detect if customers have any potentially questionable affiliations. More specifically, it is the task of this Clinic to create software to scan electronic text sources and discern where relationships exist between individuals.