For fraud examiners and investigators
Expedited financial investigations for fraud examiners
Financial fraud is growing in scale, sophistication, and speed. Yet when it comes to the tools available for conducting financial investigations, most fraud examiners are still working with technology that wasn’t designed for the complexity of modern fraud — or the volume of data it generates.
Patterns worth a closer look
Fictitious vendors
Ghost employees
Off-hours journal entries
Undisclosed related parties
Layered transfers
90%
faster to start investigating, with automated data preparation
Secure, attested and trusted by investigators
The problem
Why are financial investigations getting harder?
Fraud examiners are expected to investigate faster, cover more ground, and produce findings that hold up under legal scrutiny — all while the schemes they’re investigating grow more complex. Perpetrators deliberately layer transactions across multiple accounts, entities, and jurisdictions. They use intermediaries to obscure ownership. They structure payments to stay beneath detection thresholds. And they exploit the sheer volume of financial data as a hiding place, knowing that manual review has limits.
The tools most fraud examiners rely on — spreadsheets, manual transaction tracing, and standard accounting software — were never built for this environment. They become unreliable as transaction volumes climb into the tens or hundreds of thousands, and they break down entirely at the scale of a large corporate fraud or multi-entity Ponzi scheme. Worse, the time required to clean, standardize, and normalize financial data before investigation can even begin means weeks or months are lost before a single lead is followed — giving perpetrators more time to cover their tracks and move assets out of reach.
Before investigation begins
Cleaning
Standardizing
Deduplicating
Ingesting
Platform
The Sedra Solutions advantage
Sedra Solutions is purpose-built for the work fraud examiners actually do. Our AI-driven platform automates the most time-consuming parts of financial investigation, accelerates the path from data to findings, and surfaces connections that manual methods would never catch. Features include:
Automated data processing
Our AI-driven data pipeline automates data preparation and ingestion so you can start investigating up to 90% faster.
Case dashboard
See key metrics and gain insights into the dataset at a glance.
AI Investigator
Lets you have a conversation with your data for immediate answers.
Parties relations tracing
Shows you how parties are connected through intermediaries so you can follow the full money trail — even when it passes through shell companies, nominees, or layered business entities.
Defensible, court-ready findings
Sedra’s charts and graphs make it easy to present how parties are connected and where the money flowed — to legal counsel, regulators, audit committees, or a judge and jury.
Investigation types
Types of investigations where Sedra helps
Regardless of your specialization or the sector you work in, Sedra helps you see the trail of truth so you can build more complete findings, recover more assets, and deliver the quality of work your clients and colleagues depend on. Here are some of the investigation types where Sedra makes a difference.
Asset misappropriation is the most common form of occupational fraud and one of the most difficult to document thoroughly.
Financial statement fraud — the deliberate misrepresentation of an organization’s financial condition — tends to be among the most damaging and most difficult fraud schemes to uncover.
Corruption investigations — covering bribery, kickbacks, conflicts of interest, and illicit payments — present a distinctive challenge: the financial evidence often doesn’t look like fraud.
Ponzi schemes and investment fraud cases generate some of the most complex financial data environments fraud examiners encounter.
Money laundering investigations require fraud examiners to reconstruct how illicitly obtained funds were introduced into the financial system, moved through layered transactions to obscure their origin, and ultimately integrated into legitimate assets or accounts.
Buyer's guide
Evaluating financial investigation tools?
Our Buyer’s Guide covers how automated solutions address the biggest pain points in financial investigations, the features to look for at every stage from data ingestion to reporting, and best practices for evaluating tools and vendors.
Proof from practice
FAQs
Frequently asked questions
What does Sedra Solutions do for fraud examiners?
Sedra is an AI-driven financial investigation platform that automates data preparation, maps connections between parties, and produces defensible, court-ready findings.
How much faster can I start an investigation with Sedra?
Sedra’s automated data pipeline lets you start investigating up to 90% faster. In one case study, work that had taken five analysts about 550 hours took Sedra about 56 hours.
Does Sedra replace the examiner?
No. Sedra is AI-augmented. It accelerates data work and surfaces connections, and the examiner applies judgment and stands behind the findings.
Is my case data secure?
Sedra is SOC 2 Type 2 certified and ISO 27001 certified.
Which types of fraud does Sedra support?
Asset misappropriation, financial statement fraud, corruption and bribery, Ponzi schemes and investment fraud, and money laundering.
See the trail of truth
Sedra Solutions gives fraud examiners the analytical power to conduct more thorough investigations in less time, build findings that hold up under the most rigorous scrutiny, and deliver outcomes that make a real difference for the organizations and individuals who depend on your work. Schedule a demo today to see how Sedra will become your trusted ally in the pursuit of financial integrity and justice.