financial investigator

Unlock powerful insights with Altia Financial Investigation Toolkit and Financial Investigator.

Our financial investigation solutions have been designed to streamline financial investigation processes. Perform tasks that would typically take weeks or even months in a matter of hours, thanks to cutting-edge technology and specialist tools.

Financial Investigator

Financial Investigator

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Why choose Altia financial investigation software?

Swiftly convert electronic and paper-based information into a digital format designed for easy interrogation and analysis. With streamlined data loaders and quick reports, identifying actionable insights becomes swift and efficient, cutting down manual effort significantly.

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Import Data

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Easily import your data directly from bank statements using advanced Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology. This streamlined process offers a fast and efficient way to extract information from financial documents with minimal effort.

Import Data

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Use the versatile and intuitive gridding tool to select the relevant data imported from your bank statements. This feature enhances precision and allows you to tailor the extracted information to meet your specific requirements.

Import Data

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Process and analyze data to identify irregularities in transactions. The Quick Reports feature enables efficient monitoring by highlighting unusual activity across multiple accounts.

Instant digital data

Benefit from OCR technology, which automatically converts paper-based records into digital data, enabling fast interrogation and actionable intelligence.

Quick analysis and reports

Use data loaders to identify and export data with one click, reducing analysis time and facilitating quick report generation.

Reduce human error

Eliminate the risk of human error by automating sorting, counting, and summarising financial data, ensuring consistency and accuracy in every investigation.

Reduce overheads

Streamline investigative tasks by removing the manual conversion process of paper-based financial information, allowing resources to focus on critical tasks.

Automated redaction

Easily produce redacted and unredacted versions of documents, ensuring sensitive information is protected while maintaining transparency.

Financial Investigator.

If you want to produce the most visually compelling visual evidence, you can upgrade to Financial Investigator – a cloud-based version of Financial Investigation Toolkit. Seamlessly integrating Power BI visuals, it offers interactive dashboards for even more efficient and compelling pattern and trend identification within financial datasets.

Easily deploy financial intelligence across your teams. Hosted in the United States on Microsoft Azure Government, fully compliant with CJIS standards.

Available through US-based partners including Microsoft, Carahsoft, New Tech Solutions, KR2 Technologies, and SHI. Purchase via GSA Schedule 70, NASPO, SEWP, OMNIA, or directly from Altia.

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Financial Investigator FAQs

Altia offers a wide range of training to support financial investigators at every level.

Options include:

  • Free on-demand video tutorials to help new users get started quickly
  • Built-in help guides available right inside the platform
  • Regular user group events for knowledge sharing and networking
  • Direct support from Altia’s expert team, available to answer questions and help investigators maximize results
  • Shared analysis models and patterns contributed by other investigators

This flexible approach ensures investigators can hit the ground running and stay current with best practices.

Financial Investigator includes ready-to-use dashboards that automatically highlight insights from complex datasets. These dashboards focus on key financial crime indicators, such as:

  • Location dashboard – mapping ATM withdrawals and other cash activity
  • Cryptocurrency dashboard – tracking crypto transactions and wallet activity
  • Gambling dashboard – identifying transactions linked to betting and gaming companies
  • Utilities dashboard – flagging suspicious payments to utility providers

These dashboards save time and help investigators spot red flags faster, driving quicker case progress.

Financial Investigator uses machine learning to let investigators query their data in plain English. This makes it possible to:

  • Consolidate large volumes of financial information quickly
  • Search data more efficiently without advanced query skills
  • Detect hidden connections and anomalies faster

Built-in AI reduces manual work and surfaces evidence that might otherwise go unnoticed.

Power BI is Microsoft’s data visualization tool that turns raw data into actionable insights. When integrated with Financial Investigator, it enables users to:

  • Build interactive dashboards and reports
  • Visualize trends, patterns, and suspicious activity
  • Present findings clearly to decision-makers, compliance officers, or in court

With Power BI, investigators can work more efficiently and communicate their findings with impact.

Organizations using Financial Investigator report significant improvements, including:

  • Increased efficiency, saving time on data entry and analysis
  • More assets identified for recovery, boosting case outcomes
  • Higher prosecution rates thanks to stronger evidence
  • Reduced reliance on outsourced analysis, lowering costs

The software is built to deliver measurable ROI for both government agencies and private-sector users.

A financial investigation examines records, transactions, and assets to uncover potential criminal activity. Common offenses include:

  • Fraud
  • Money laundering
  • Corruption
  • Tax evasion
  • Embezzlement

Investigators use tools like Financial Investigator to analyze bank statements, business records, and digital transactions, tracing money flows, detecting suspicious patterns, and gathering admissible evidence.

Financial crime is a major and growing issue in the US. The FBI reports billions of dollars lost each year to fraud schemes, while money laundering and corruption continue to undermine financial systems.

This rising volume of economic crime underscores the urgent need for dedicated investigative tools to support law enforcement, regulators, and compliance teams.

Financial investigators review financial records, transactions, and assets to uncover signs of criminal activity. Their work often supports cases involving:

  • Fraud and financial deception
  • Money laundering and organized crime
  • Tax evasion and asset concealment
  • Corruption and bribery

They gather, analyze, and interpret financial data to trace money movement, spot anomalies, and build prosecutable evidence.

Financial investigators may work in law enforcement, regulatory agencies (e.g. the SEC, IRS, or FinCEN), corporate compliance, forensic accounting, or private practice.

Financial investigation software supports professionals across multiple sectors, including:

  • Law enforcement agencies, such as federal, state, and local financial crime units
  • Regulatory bodies, such as the SEC, IRS, or state regulators
  • Forensic accountants and auditors investigating fraud or bankruptcy
  • Attorneys and private investigators
  • Banking and financial institution compliance teams

These professionals rely on tools like Financial Investigator to detect hidden patterns, accelerate analysis, and produce reports that stand up in court.

Effective financial investigators bring a mix of skills, including:

  • Strong numeracy and attention to detail
  • Knowledge of financial systems and documents
  • Ability to spot anomalies or red flags in data
  • Familiarity with financial crime laws and regulations
  • Proficiency with investigation tools and data analysis software

Many professionals come from backgrounds in accounting, law enforcement, compliance, or legal practice.

To become a financial investigator in the US, you typically need a background in a related field such as law enforcement, accounting, auditing, or legal work. Steps may include:

  • Earning relevant qualifications (e.g. forensic accounting, criminal justice, or certifications like CFE – Certified Fraud Examiner)
  • Building experience in financial analysis or investigative work
  • Attending specialist training (including Altia’s courses)
  • Applying for roles with law enforcement agencies, regulatory bodies, or private firms

Software like Financial Investigator can enhance your effectiveness and support career growth.

Financial investigation is critical for disrupting criminal networks, recovering stolen assets, and protecting the economy. It helps:

  • Detect and prevent fraud
  • Disrupt organized crime and money laundering
  • Enforce anti-corruption and tax laws
  • Recover proceeds of crime through asset seizures

Without financial investigation, criminals can conceal illicit activity through complex transactions and continue operating unchecked.

Many types of organisations can leverage the Financial Investigator platform. These include law-enforcement agencies (federal, state, local) dealing with financial crime investigations; regulatory bodies monitoring compliance; corporate compliance teams within banks or financial institutions; forensic accounting firms; insolvency and restructuring practitioners; and private investigators focused on asset tracing. The tool is designed to support teams looking to trace money flows, uncover hidden assets, detect fraud or money-laundering, and turn complex data into actionable intelligence.

Security and compliance are key in financial investigations. The Financial Investigator platform is designed for deployment on secure cloud infrastructure (for example hosted on Microsoft Azure Government in the U.S., which meets standards like CJIS). It supports secure ingestion of data, controlled access, redacted/unredacted exports, and audit-trails. Organisations can enforce role-based access, encrypt stored data, and maintain evidential integrity of investigative outputs.

Unlike manual methods using spreadsheets and PDFs, this platform automates ingestion of electronic and paper-based data (via OCR for scanned statements) and transforms it into digital, query-able, visual formats. It includes pre-configured dashboards (e.g., location, crypto, gambling, utilities) to highlight financial crime indicators.

The machine-learning capabilities allow users to interrogate large datasets via plain-English queries and detect hidden connections that manual review might miss. This yields faster turnaround, less human error, and more actionable results.

Organisations implementing this solution report measurable benefits: more efficient investigations (saving big chunks of investigator time), higher asset recovery yields, improved prosecution rates, and reduced outsourcing or manual labour costs. By automating tedious steps (data ingestion, manual redaction, repeated spreadsheets), teams can redirect resources to high-value tasks.

Additionally, by enabling clearer, more compelling evidence and reports, the software supports stronger case outcomes and better ROI for agencies and private-sector organisations alike.

Integration is built into the platform. Users can import data from bank statements, Excel files and other sources, with OCR automating scanned data conversion.

The platform supports visualisation via Power BI, enabling interactive dashboards for investigators and non-technical stakeholders alike. Because the product is cloud-based and built on standard data tools, it can slot into existing workflows while reducing manual dependencies and fostering faster insight generation.

The machine-learning capabilities allow users to interrogate large datasets via plain-English queries and detect hidden connections that manual review might miss. This yields faster turnaround, less human error, and more actionable results.

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Why choose Altia Financial Investigator?

Recover more, work less: make every financial investigation count

Help return money to victims, replenish your agency or local forfeiture funds, and give valuable time back to your investigators. Altia’s software streamlines your investigations while producing clear, court-ready insights.

Track and return funds efficiently

Automate the conversion and analysis of electronic and paper-based financial data helping you follow the money faster and more accurately.

Seamless integration with Excel

Easily map Excel data into Power BI with one click, simplifying complex financial analysis and uncovering actionable insights that support restitution and resource recovery.

Accelerate case building

Machine learning (ML) accelerates data interrogation, opening new investigative avenues and reducing the time and effort required from analysts freeing your team to focus on what matters most.

Preconfigured dashboards

Preconfigured dashboards, including location, crypto, gambling, and utilities, make comprehensive analysis highly efficient.

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Impactful insights, on demand

In investigations and oversight, how you present information is just as critical as the information itself. That’s why Power BI visuals matter.

Because raw data doesn’t persuade – clear visuals do.

Financial data is only powerful when it’s understood. Power BI transforms complex records, communications, transactions, timelines into interactive visuals that bring patterns, risks, and relationships to the surface.

Because you need to brief everyone…fast

Everyone needs to grasp the essentials fast. Power BI bridges technical and non-technical users with visuals that are intuitive, evidence-ready, and built to inform high-stakes decisions.

Speed saves time, resources, and cases

Manual reporting processes can delay action. Power BI enables real-time updates and dashboards that keep teams informed as cases evolve no more waiting for static weekly summaries.

You must meet evidential standards

Whether presenting findings to a jury or submitting a financial report, credibility is non-negotiable. Power BI supports traceability, data integrity, and transparency allowing visuals to serve not just as briefing tools but as components of official evidence.

Static reports limit insight

Traditional charts and PDFs fall short in complex investigations. Power BI enables interactivity. Drilldown by entity, time, region, or transaction enabling investigators, analysts, and auditors can uncover detail on demand.

FI and Power BI visuals – A force multiplier

For law enforcement, public agencies, and financial professionals, they turn data into direction and direction into results which allow you to do more with less.

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Since 1996, Altia has been the trusted partner of choice for more than 340 organizations worldwide including law enforcement agencies, government departments, and private accounting firms across the US, Canada, UK, Australia and beyond.

In partnership with Microsoft, Altia delivers advanced, secure and scalable solutions, powered by the robust capabilities of Microsoft Azure, to help agencies work smarter and achieve better outcomes.

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