Combining public data with leaked FinCEN reports, ICIJ’s data team plotted a matrix of shadowy straw men who filed false accounts worth more than $4.5 billion.
ICIJ's innovative open-source research platform gained a host of new features in 2020 — and will continue to evolve throughout the year ahead.
Each Confidential Client profile amounts to only a few hundred words, but the huge data lift involved was emblematic of the entire FinCEN Files investigation.
Three ICIJ reporters take us behind the scenes of the FinCEN Files investigation in this special edition of our Meet the Investigators series.
Explore the confidential data at the heart of the FinCEN Files.
These are the people zipping money across the world thanks to the global banking system.
To extract as much information as possible from the files, dozens of reporters collaborated to manually collate data on thousands of transactions.
What is a SAR? Is this like the Panama Papers? Why should I care about the FinCEN Files? And more frequently asked questions about this investigation.
A massive global research effort for FinCEN Files turned secret records into usable information exposing the futility of U.S.-led anti-money laundering efforts.
DatashareNetwork, developed by ICIJ and Swiss university EPFL, will allow reporters around the world to securely search one another's documents.
Datashare has been helping reporters, citizen sleuths and data nerds analyze documents for more than a year. We'd like your help to make it even better.
Jan Strozyk believes can achieve more if you are good at several disciplines - rather than just one. It’s a philosophy he’s taken into the newsroom
I’m a COVID-19 data skeptic. The most widely-used numbers to describe the impact of the pandemic — reported cases and deaths — are flawed.
Nelfi Fernandez Reyes talks about reporting while democracy is under assault.
You can now search our Lux Leaks documents without installing any software. Get a taste for how ICIJ's network of investigative reporters works using Datashare online.
Luanda Leaks was a trove of more than 175,000 emails – so how do we go about tackling such a massive dataset? And how can we be sure we haven’t missed major stories?
Luanda Leaks was a trove of more than 175,000 emails – so how do we go about tackling such a massive dataset? And how can we be sure we haven’t missed major stories?
See the scale and reach of Isabel dos Santos and Sindika Dokolo’s business empire. Watch it grow from 1992 to 2019 – and explore by country or industry.
Technology and data are our never-ending stories at ICIJ. So, at the turn of this new decade, you could well be wondering: what is coming next?
The FDA won’t release data about whether patients were female or male, so ICIJ joined forces with Stanford to find answers.
The International Medical Device Database now has more than 120,000 records about faulty or even dangerous medical devices from 46 countries.
What makes ICIJ's secure open-source software different from other tools? We answer some of the common questions about Datashare.
Machine learning can help journalists by identifying files more likely to contain stories, for example, finding information-rich tax returns from a massive trove of documents.
If news talks more like your friends, it will be harder to ignore. That's the rationale behind LaBot, a digital chat tool created by Chilean journalists.
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