Finding the Ultimate Beneficial Owner in a Pile of KYC Documents with Document Intelligence

With Document Intelligence, you can build a knowledge graph from your existing documents, including plain text files, PDFs, and Microsoft Word files, without writing a single line of code. Documents that previously sat unused and unqueried can now be searched and acted upon. Once your documents are in a knowledge graph, you can programmatically uncover connections hidden across pages of text. In this walkthrough, you’ll use Cypher and Louvain community detection algorithm to find the ultimate beneficial owner (UBO) behind a load applicant in a pile of know-your-customer (KYC) compliance documents. Traditionally, a reviewer has to pour over each document carefully. A diligent reader then has to piece together connections on the fly, leading to easily missed context along the way, which is exactly how bad actors conceal fraud or illicit payments. Today you are playing the role of compliance team member at a major financial institution. The…