Where does the money trail data come from?

Every entry is drawn from published reporting, regulatory filings and court records, and links back to the source it came from. Nothing is inferred from private banking data.

Do the lines on the globe show actual bank transfers?

No. A corridor connects the places the two parties to a deal are based. It is a map of who paid whom, not a route taken by a wire.

How often is the money trail updated?

The board is refreshed twice a day from open reporting. Existing entries are kept and corrected rather than replaced.

Money trail

The biggest documented money moves on Earth, mapped

TrackWanted maps 40+ of the largest movements of money attributed to named people — founders selling stock, tycoons buying companies, courts seizing assets, clubs paying transfer fees and artists selling their catalogues — with $311.2B of documented value on the board and a source link behind every line.

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How to read the money trail

Each entry names a person, an amount in US dollars, the year, and the two places the money moved between. The arc drawn on the globe joins those two places: it shows who paid whom, not the route a wire took through the banking system.

Amounts come from published reporting, regulatory filings and court records. Where a figure is reported as a range or in another currency, the board takes the conservative end and lowers the confidence score shown on the row. Open the live board to see sources.

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Largest tracked movements

What counts as a money move

The board tracks acquisitions, share and stake sales, legal settlements, asset forfeitures, philanthropic gifts, sports transfer fees, music catalogue sales, large private investments, trophy property purchases and disclosed crypto movements. The floor is fifty million dollars, and every entry must name an individual person rather than a company alone.

Money movements are the other half of the story the rest of the site tells. The same people who move billions across borders also fly private, and the assets they buy carry a carbon cost you can measure.