Harnessing synthetic data to address fraud in cross-border payments

Johan Bryssinck, Tom Jacobs, Filippo Simini, Ravi Doddasomayajula, Martin Koder, Francisco Curbera, Venkatram Vishwanath and Chalapathy Neti
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Johan Bryssinck: Swift, USA
Tom Jacobs: Swift, Belgium
Filippo Simini: Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Ravi Doddasomayajula: Swift, USA
Martin Koder: Swift, UK
Francisco Curbera: Swift, USA
Venkatram Vishwanath: Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Chalapathy Neti: Swift, UK

Journal of Payments Strategy & Systems, 2024, vol. 18, issue 3, 261-275

Abstract: The sharing of data between financial institutions is widely recognised as a key component in the industry’s efforts to combat fraud. Broader access to multiple sources of financial data is also critical to the development of high-quality fraud detection mechanisms based on artificial intelligence (AI). Given the challenges relating to sharing real financial data across countries and institutions, the use of synthetic data has recently become critical to enabling the exploration of broader data sharing and supporting open collaboration in AI model development. To generate synthetic data that can substitute for real data, computer algorithms closely mimic the key statistical properties of genuine data, while strictly preserving the privacy and sovereignty of the source data. This paper presents the results of an ongoing exploration into the generation of high-utility synthetic datasets of cross-border payment transactions using transformer models and discusses its application to the development of AI-based fraud prevention solutions.

Keywords: cross-border; fraud; data sharing; artificial intelligence; synthetic data; privacy-safe (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E5 G2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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