FIS is working with Anthropic to bring agentic AI to banking, beginning with the Financial Crimes AI Agent.
The agent will compress anti-money-laundering investigations from hours to minutes, automatically assembling evidence across a bank’s core systems, evaluating activity against known typologies, and surfacing the highest-risk cases for investigator review. BMO and Amalgamated Bank will be among the first institutions to deploy the agent, with broader availability planned for H2 2026.
Anthropic’s Applied AI team and forward-deployed engineers (FDEs) are embedded with FIS to co-design the Financial Crimes AI Agent and transfer knowledge so FIS can build and scale additional agents independently over time.
Anthropic’s Claude models are powering the reasoning capabilities across the strategy.
Anthropic’s Applied AI and forward-deployed engineers are co-designing the inaugural Financial Crimes AI agent, while FIS’s product and compliance teams will build additional agents purpose -built for bank-grade operations.
The UN estimates that $2 trillion in illicit funds flows through the global financial system every year. U.S. financial institutions alone spend $35–40 billion annually on AML operations, yet investigators spend the majority of their time manually assembling evidence across disconnected systems before any analysis can begin. Emerging U.S. regulation is now pushing institutions to move beyond this model, shifting resources toward the highest-risk threats.
