Financial Strength

Financial Integrity & Illicit Finance Control

The capacity to police the flows: anti-money-laundering and counter-financing machinery, beneficial ownership transparency and the enforcement capability that makes financial sanctions bite. One of the capabilities of Financial Regulation & Integrity.

International families: 1,9432015 to 2024
Leading country: United States5.9× the next
All families: 7,126home filings included
Over five years: Steady2020 to 2024 against the five before

Year by year

Patent families by country of origin and the year of the earliest filing, 2000 to 2025; 2025 is a part year, still filling in. International families are those for which protection was sought beyond one country.

Volume

International patent families in the capability, by the year of the earliest filing.

Source: Global Institute for National Capability (GINC), 2026. Underlying patents from 107 patent offices, IFI CLAIMS and Google

Share by country

Each country's share of the year's international families, in per cent: the capability's five largest countries of origin, 2015 to 2024, and the rest of the world.

Source: Global Institute for National Capability (GINC), 2026. Underlying patents from 107 patent offices, IFI CLAIMS and Google

Country leaderboard

International patent families, 2015 to 2024, by country of origin. Growth compares the latest five full years with the five before.

Ten largest

United States

China

Japan

South Korea

Canada

Cayman Islands

United Kingdom

France

Singapore

India

1,064

181

104


1	United States	1,064	54.8%	1.0×	3,025
2	China	181	9.3%	1.1×	2,967
3	Japan	104	5.4%	1.7×	107
4	South Korea	84	4.3%	1.1×	276
5	Canada	67	3.4%	1.6×	106
6	Cayman Islands	61	3.1%	0.0×	64
7	United Kingdom	56	2.9%	2.5×	73
8	France	37	1.9%	0.8×	61
9	Singapore	36	1.9%	1.3×	38
10	India	28	1.4%	1.8×	49
11	Germany	24	1.2%	2.4×	43
12	Israel	22	1.1%	1.4×	71
13	Switzerland	19	1.0%	2.2×	25
14	Türkiye	17	0.9%	3.3×	17
15	Portugal	17	0.9%	1.8×	20
16	Ireland	15	0.8%	0.5×	28
17	Russia	14	0.7%	0.4×	16
18	Sweden	11	0.6%	0.8×	14
19	Australia	11	0.6%	0.6×	13
20	Taiwan	10	0.5%	1.0×	12
21	Norway	7	0.4%	0.8×	8
22	Italy	6	0.3%	5.0×	10
23	Hong Kong	6	0.3%	0.2×	7
24	Netherlands	5	0.3%	1.5×	9
25	South Africa	5	0.3%	1.5×	6
26	Belgium	4	0.2%	3.0×	5
27	Austria	2	0.1%	0.0×	2
28	Denmark	2	0.1%	1.0×	2
29	Malaysia	2	0.1%	0.0×	2
30	Spain	1	0.1%	0.0×	1
31	Brazil	1	0.1%	0.0×	5
32	Poland	1	0.1%	0.0×	1
33	Luxembourg	1	0.1%	–	1
34	Czechia	1	0.1%	0.0×	1
35	Saudi Arabia	0	0.0%	–	2

Applicants

The largest applicants by international patent families, 2015 to 2024: across the world, then within each of the five countries with the most families in Financial Integrity & Illicit Finance Control. Names are as held in the source and are not consolidated across subsidiaries.

Global

1,943 international families

MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INC · United States

VISA INT SERVICE ASS · United States

CAPITAL ONE SERVICES LLC · United States

ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LTD · China

PAYPAL INC · United States

ALIBABA GROUP SERVICES LTD · Cayman Islands

218

142

100

United States

1,064 international families

MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INC

VISA INT SERVICE ASS

CAPITAL ONE SERVICES LLC

PAYPAL INC

JPMORGAN CHASE BANK NA

IBM

218

142

100

China

181 international families

ALIPAY HANGZHOU INF TECH CO LTD

ALIPAY HANGZHOU TECH CO LTD

CHINA UNIONPAY CO LTD

TENCENT TECH SHENZHEN CO LTD

ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LTD

PING AN TECH SHENZHEN CO LTD

Japan

104 international families

TOSHIBA TEC KK

FUJITSU LTD

NEC CORP

RAKUTEN GROUP INC

SONY CORP

SONY GROUP CORP

South Korea

84 international families

SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD

COUPANG CORP

AIZEN GLOBAL CO INC

S2W INC

BONANZA FACTORY CO LTD

COINPLUG INC

Canada

Japan

China

South Korea

Canada

529

216

207

Crosswalk

How Financial Integrity & Illicit Finance Control is matched to the patent classifications. The entries below were chosen for it; each stands for itself and everything beneath it in the scheme, 4 Cooperative entries in all. A patent family counts when any of its codes, in either scheme and at any office, falls under one of them. Codes since retired are placed under the entries that replaced them.

Entry	Title in the scheme	Why it is chosen	CPC codes	IPC codes	Documents
G06Q20/4016	Transaction verification involving fraud or risk level assessment in transaction processing	Fraud and risk assessment in payment transactions	1	none	26,706
G06Q40/024	Anti-fraud, anti-money laundering or know-your-customer	Anti-fraud, anti-money-laundering and know-your-customer in banking	1	none	236
G06Q40/0325	Account notification, monitoring, detecting, or reporting therefor specially adapted for detecting or preventing credit or loan fraud	Detecting and preventing credit or loan fraud	2	none	127

CPC and IPC codes are the codes in use on patent documents, at any office, that fall under the entry. Documents is the larger of the two schemes' counts of documents carrying one of them. An entry with no IPC codes can be told apart only in the Cooperative scheme.

The Cooperative codes in use that count towards Financial Integrity & Illicit Finance Control: 4 codes on 27,069 documents. The full crosswalk is in the cpc-to-capability.csv download.

Code	Title	Under entry	How placed	Documents
G06Q20/4016	Transaction verification involving fraud or risk level assessment in transaction processing	G06Q20/4016	In the scheme	26,706
G06Q40/024	Anti-fraud, anti-money laundering or know-your-customer	G06Q40/024	In the scheme	236
G06Q40/03251	Account notification, monitoring, detecting, or reporting therefor specially adapted for detecting or preventing credit or loan fraud using artificial intelligence, machine learning or neural networks	G06Q40/0325	In the scheme	68
G06Q40/0325	Account notification, monitoring, detecting, or reporting therefor specially adapted for detecting or preventing credit or loan fraud	G06Q40/0325	In the scheme	59

Match: Through its tools

The classification names the equipment or technology the capability draws on, not the capability. The count says how much is being invented for it, not how well it is done. Counts fraud and money-laundering detection technology; all three entries exist in the Cooperative scheme only, so applications classified in the International scheme alone are missed. The entries can be told apart only in the Cooperative scheme, so patents that carry only International codes are missed. The crosswalk is a first pass that nobody has reviewed.

Other capabilities in Financial Regulation & Integrity

Prudential Regulation & Supervision
Market Conduct & Consumer Protection
Payment & Market Infrastructure Oversight