This study employs machine learning techniques to identify key drivers of suspicious activity reporting. The data for this study comes from all suspicious activities reported to the California government in 2018. In total, there were 45,000 records of data that represent various features. The paper uses linear regression along with Lasso, Ridge, and Elastic Net to perform feature regularization and address overfitting with the data. Other probabilistic and non-linear algorithms, namely, support vector machines, random forests, XGBoost, and CatBoost, were used to deal with the complexity of the data. The results from the mean squared and root mean squared errors indicate that the ensemble tree-based algorithm performed better than the statistical and probabilistic models. The findings revealed that filings from regulators, the type of products, and customers' relationships with the institutions were the top contributors to SAR filings. Through the evaluation of a vast amount of data, this study provides valuable insights for identifying suspicious activities in financial transactions and has the potential to significantly improve suspicious transaction monitoring.

The increasing complexity of supply chains is putting pressure on businesses to find new ways to optimize efficiency and cut costs. One area that has seen a lot of recent development is machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) to help manage supply chains. This paper employs machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to predict fraud in the supply chain. Supply chain data for this project was retrieved from real-world business transactions. The findings show that ML and AI classifiers did an excellent job predicting supply chain fraud. In particular, the AI model was the highest predictor across all performance measures. These results suggest that computational intelligence can be a powerful tool for detecting and preventing supply chain fraud. ML and AI classifiers can analyze vast amounts of data and identify patterns that may evade manual detection. The findings presented in this paper can be used to optimize supply chain management (SCM) and make predictions of fraudulent transactions before they occur. While ML and AI classifiers are still in the early stages of development, they have the potential to revolutionize SCM. Future research should explore how these techniques can be refined and applied to other domains.

The increasing complexity of supply chains is putting pressure on businesses to find new ways to optimize efficiency and cut costs. One area that has seen a lot of recent development is machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) to help manage supply chains. This paper employs machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to predict fraud in the supply chain. Supply chain data for this project was retrieved from real-world business transactions. The findings show that ML and AI classifiers did an excellent job predicting supply chain fraud. In particular, the AI model was the highest predictor across all performance measures. These results suggest that computational intelligence can be a powerful tool for detecting and preventing supply chain fraud. ML and AI classifiers can analyze vast amounts of data and identify patterns that may evade manual detection. The findings presented in this paper can be used to optimize supply chain management (SCM) and make predictions of fraudulent transactions before they occur. While ML and AI classifiers are still in the early stages of development, they have the potential to revolutionize SCM. Future research should explore how these techniques can be refined and applied to other domains.