Neuro- Symbolic Compliance Architectures: Real-Time Detection of Evolving Financial Crimes Using Hybrid AI
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.56127/ijst.v4i1.1961Keywords:
NeuroSym-AML, Neuro-Symbolic, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), Financial Crime Detection, Money Laundering, FATF/OFAC Regulations, Cross-border Transactions, Hybrid AI, Adversarial Robustness, Regulatory Compliance, Real-Time DetectionAbstract
This paper proposes NeuroSym-AML, a new neuro-symbolic AI framework explicitly designed for the real-time detection of evolving financial crimes with a special focus on cross-border transactions. By combining Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) with interpretable rule-based reasoning, our system dynamically adapts to emerging money laundering patterns while ensuring strict compliance with FATF/OFAC regulations. In contrast to static rule-based systems, NeuroSym-AML shows better performance-an 83.6% detection accuracy to identify financial criminals, which demonstrated a 31% higher uplift compared with conventional systems-produced by utilizing datasets from 14 million SWIFT transactions. Furthermore, it is continuously learning new criminal typologies, providing decision trails that are available to regulatory audit in real-time. Key innovations include: (1) the continuous self-updating of detection heuristics, (2) automatic natural language processing of the latest regulatory updates, and (3) adversarial robustness against evasion techniques. This hybrid architecture bridges the scalability of machine learning with interpretability of symbolic AI, which can address crucial gaps for financial crime prevention, therefore delivering a solution for satisfying both adaptive fraud detection and transparency in decision-making in high-stakes financial environments.
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