The relationship is often the risk
Link Analysis finds, understands and visualises relationships between any entities that have connections between them: people, organisations, items such as products, policies, stocks, vessels and assets, and transactions such as payments and claims. It is a feature within the DetectX® Predictive Analytics platform rather than a separate tool.
What Link Analysis does
A single-entity check answers a question about one name. Link Analysis answers the question behind it: who else is involved, how, and how far away.
Entity relationship mapping
Map
Visualises the relationships between entities, allowing users to identify connections and interactions.
Network analysis
Analyse
Analyses how entities are interconnected, helping organisations understand the broader context of their operations.
Real-time monitoring
Watch
Continuously tracks changes in relationships and patterns, providing timely insights for decision-making.
Risk carried by the link
Weigh
Business rules determine and calculate risk factors depending on the nature of the link and the depth, or degrees of separation, between subjects and other risky objects.
A view wide enough to act on
Decide
Provides a comprehensive view of relationships and interactions, which is what lets an organisation make data-driven decisions rather than decisions about one record at a time.
Incident case management
Resolve
Streamlines incident case management and optimises processes, so operational costs come down and service delivery improves.
Where it is used
Link Analysis is one engine on the DetectX® core. These solution pages name it directly.
Solution
Understands, analyses and visualises the links between individuals, business names and persons of high risk.
Solution
Finds, matches and visualises suspicious relationships and networks between clients, transactions and entities, for a holistic view of complex or layered laundering schemes.
Solution
Links between senders and receivers of funds, taking in their risk status from other data sources.
Solution
Connections between individuals, organisations and high-risk networks, visualised rather than listed.
Solution
Risk screening for assets, including financial instruments, property holdings and high-value transactions.
Solution
Hidden ownership links, ownership changes and political links behind a supplier, vendor or contractor.
Common questions
No. It is a feature within the DetectX® Predictive Analytics platform, running on the same core as screening, monitoring and scoring.
No. It is not limited to individuals. Organisations, items such as products, policies, stocks, vessels and assets, and transactions such as payments and claims are all in scope. The same approach enables risk screening for assets including financial instruments, property holdings and high-value transactions, where a connection may indicate sanction exposure or a compliance red flag that a list check on the instrument alone would not raise.
The connections between multiple accounts flagged for suspicious transactions. Visualising the network of transactions surfaces unusual patterns, such as a series of rapid transfers between accounts that share common ownership or geographical links, which allows timely investigation and reporting to the regulatory authorities.
Yes, on three further examples the live site gives. In insurance, mapping claimants, policies and claims for similarity or repeated association highlights potential fraud, such as multiple claims from one address or a group of individuals or agents involved in scams. In investment banking, assessing how the stocks, bonds and commodities in a client's portfolio correlate identifies diversification opportunities and concentration risk. In incident case management, linking incident reports to specific machines, machinery types, operational conditions, parts and maintenance history makes recurring issues and problematic parts visible, which cuts downtime and maintenance cost.
Link Analysis · DetectX®
See the network behind the name.
Book a working session on your own entity data. Bring your questions about which sources feed the graph and what an analyst can act on from it.
- Hidden connections
- Identifying hidden connections enhances risk assessment and allows proactive mitigation.
- Fraud detection
- Uncovering patterns in the data aids early detection of fraudulent activity.
- One platform
- A feature within the DetectX® Predictive Analytics platform, not a second system.

