Analysis

March 14, 2019

Solving Scandinavia's money laundering crisis

The Scandinavian banks have been caught up in a money laundering scandal. Unnecessarily so, according to Neo4j’s founder.


Mimi Billing

8 min read

Earlier this month Nordea became the latest Scandinavian bank that was swept up in an ever-expanding Russian money-laundering scandal.

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The graph database is built on the same principles as the way our memory works.
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Mimi Billing

Mimi Billing is Sifted's Europe editor, based in Stockholm. She covers the Nordics and can be found on X and LinkedIn

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