Financial services

Money laundering

Computer security

Commerce

Digital evidence

Accounting

Computer science

Payment

Business

Financial innovation

Political science

Computer forensics

Digital forensics

Programming language

Database transaction

Finance

Financial transaction

Extortion

Forensic Science International Digital Investigation

This paper describes an emerging sub-discipline of digital forensics covering financial technologies, or Fintech. The digital transformation of society is introducing new Fintech for payments, funds transfer, and other financial transactions. Criminals are using and abusing financial technologies for fraud, extortion, money laundering, and financing activity in the criminal underground. The investigation of Fintech and digital payment activity needs to be recognized as a new technical sub-discipline of the digital forensics landscape. The digital forensics community is well positioned to provide research for practitioners to enhance investigations involving Fintech and technical financial activity.

Fintech forensics: Criminal investigation and digital evidence in financial technologies