Business function

AI use cases for financial crime compliance

Anti money laundering, sanctions screening, transaction monitoring and investigations.

Use cases
12
Deployments
42
Organizations
37
Outcome disclosed
50%

12 Financial crime compliance use cases

37 organizations in 15 countries run these use cases in public. 50% of those 42 deployments disclose a measurable outcome.

Wealth and asset managementBanking

AI agent for source of wealth due diligence in private banking

An AI agent that reads a prospective private client's documents, extracts and corroborates how their wealth was built, checks plausibility against benchmarks and external sources, and drafts the source of wealth and enhanced due diligence narrative for the relationship manager and compliance analyst, who decide on the risk rating and the relationship.

Deployments
3 public, best grade B
Autonomy
Copilot
BankingPayments and cards

AI copilot for SAR and STR narrative drafting

Generative AI that drafts the narrative of a single suspicious activity or suspicious transaction report from the investigation file (who, what, when, where, why and how), with every fact linked to its source record, so the investigator verifies, edits and files instead of starting from a blank page. It works case by case, unlike the periodic data returns of regulatory reporting.

Deployments
4 public, best grade B
Autonomy
Copilot
BankingPayments and cards

AI for AML transaction monitoring alert triage

Machine learning and AI agents that score anti money laundering alerts for genuine risk, close clear false positives with a written and stored rationale, and hand investigators the remaining alerts already enriched with the customer, counterparty and transaction context.

Deployments
8 public, best grade B
Reported false positive reduction
86%
Shift4, vendor claim
BankingPayments and cards

AI for business onboarding (KYB) and beneficial ownership discovery

An AI agent that builds the know your business (KYB) due diligence file for a new or reviewed corporate client, before any account is opened: it collects registry, incorporation and ownership documents, resolves the entity across sources, maps the ownership chain through holding companies, nominees and trusts to the ultimate beneficial owners, screens the entity and its owners, and presents a risk scored case for a compliance analyst to decide.

Deployments
3 public, best grade C
Reported automation rate
25%
BNY, organization claim
Capital marketsBanking

AI for market abuse surveillance alert triage

AI that helps surveillance analysts triage market abuse and conduct alerts, such as spoofing, layering, wash trades, ramping and insider dealing, by gathering the trade, order, news and communications context, explaining in plain language what triggered each alert and drafting the investigation narrative for the analyst to disposition.

Deployments
5 public, best grade B
Reported handling time reduction
about 33%
Nasdaq, organization claim
BankingPayments and cards

AI for money mule account and network detection

Graph and behavioural machine learning that finds money mule accounts and the networks around them, such as circular flows, layering chains and clusters of newly linked accounts, and supports investigators in tracing scam proceeds and restricting accounts before the money is gone.

Deployments
3 public, best grade B
Autonomy
Copilot
BankingPayments and cards

AI for PEP and adverse media screening

AI that continuously scans news, court records, registries and other open sources in many languages for negative information and political exposure linked to customers, counterparties and beneficial owners, discards look alikes, and summarises credible risk for the analyst with the sources attached.

Deployments
7 public, best grade B
Reported handling time reduction
at least 60%
Save the Children, vendor claim
BankingPayments and cards

AI for perpetual KYC and event driven customer due diligence

AI that keeps each customer's due diligence file current by replacing calendar driven KYC reviews with continuous, event driven refreshes: it watches for trigger events such as a change of ownership, address, behaviour or a new adverse finding, refreshes the file automatically where it can, and involves an analyst only when something material has changed. The risk rating itself and the first file for a new business client are separate use cases.

Deployments
5 public, best grade B
Reported cost reduction
40%
JPMorgan Chase, organization claim
BankingInsurance

AI for regulatory report assembly

AI that assembles periodic and data driven regulatory filings and returns, such as prudential and statistical returns, threshold and transaction reports and disclosure packs, by pulling data into the regulator's schema, validating it, reconciling figures to source, explaining movements against prior periods and drafting commentary, before a named officer reviews and submits. Narratives for individual suspicious activity cases are a separate use case.

Deployments
2 public, best grade B
Autonomy
Copilot
BankingPayments and cards

AI for sanctions screening alert adjudication

AI that works the alerts raised when customer, counterparty or payment names match sanctions and watchlists: it resolves fuzzy matches across transliterations, aliases and naming conventions, clears clear non matches with a documented reason, and escalates true or uncertain hits with the evidence attached.

Deployments
7 public, best grade B
Reported false positive reduction
60%
United Overseas Bank (UOB), organization claim
Banking

AI screening of trade finance transactions for trade based money laundering

AI that screens every trade finance transaction for financial crime risk: it checks parties, vessels and ports against sanctions and watchlists, tests goods descriptions against dual use and controlled goods lists, compares unit prices with benchmarks for over or under invoicing, and reads trade documents and messages for laundering red flags, then prepares a case narrative for a human investigator.

Deployments
3 public, best grade C
Autonomy
Supervised agent
BankingPayments and cards

Dynamic AML customer risk rating with machine learning

Explainable machine learning that produces the money laundering risk rating itself: it computes and continuously updates each customer's rating from due diligence data, products, geography, behaviour and screening results, and shows which factors drive the rating and when enhanced due diligence is warranted.

Deployments
1 public, best grade B
Autonomy
Supervised agent

What the evidence says

Computed from the 42 public deployments behind these use cases. Numbers update with every checked record.

Benchmarks with at least 3 pooled values

Benchmarks across Financial crime compliance use cases
KPIMedianReported rangeData pointsClaimed by
False positive reduction73%
60% to 95%
42 organization, 2 vendor
Deployments by stage
  • Announced
    7
  • Pilot
    5
  • Production
    26
  • Scaled
    3
  • Paused or rolled back
    1
Public deployments by region
  • Asia Pacific
    13
  • North America
    11
  • Europe
    9
  • Global
    7
  • Middle East
    1
  • Africa
    1

Organizations with a public deployment

AJ Bell, ANZ, Commonwealth Bank, NAB, Suncorp Bank and Westpac (BioCatch Trust Australia), ANZ, HSBC and Lloyds Banking Group, Australia Post, BMO and Amalgamated Bank, BNY, Bank of Singapore, BigPay, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Deutsche Bank, Finshark, First National Bank of Omaha (FNBO), HSBC, Incore Bank, JPMorgan Chase, Japan Exchange Group, M-DAQ Global, Mashreq, Nasdaq, National Credit Union Administration, Nexo, OCBC, Origin Bank, Ratepay, Reserve Bank Innovation Hub (Reserve Bank of India), Santander UK, Save the Children, Scotiabank, Shift4, Stanbic Bank Uganda, Standard Chartered, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, United Bank Limited, United Overseas Bank (UOB), Uphold, bunq.