Business function

AI use cases for risk management

Credit, market, operational and model risk: measurement, monitoring and reporting.

Use cases
22
Deployments
74
Organizations
71
Outcome disclosed
45%

22 Risk management use cases

71 organizations in 16 countries run these use cases in public. 45% of those 74 deployments disclose a measurable outcome.

Banking

AI agent for corporate credit analysis and credit memo drafting

An AI agent that gathers a corporate borrower's documents and data, spreads the financials into the bank's template, calculates ratios and covenant headroom, pulls bureau and news information, and drafts a committee ready credit memo in which every figure links to its source, for the relationship and credit teams to challenge, complete and sign.

Deployments
2 public, best grade B
Autonomy
Copilot
Capital marketsWealth and asset management

AI assistant for deal sourcing and M&A due diligence

An AI assistant that screens the market for acquisition or investment targets, builds company profiles, and speeds up due diligence by reading data room documents, extracting key terms and risks and drafting the investment or diligence memo, for the deal team to verify and decide.

Deployments
4 public, best grade B
Reported productivity gain
up to 80%
Datasite, vendor claim
Wealth and asset managementBanking

AI assistant for investment suitability assessment and reports

An AI assistant that checks whether a proposed product or portfolio fits a client's risk tolerance, objectives, knowledge, experience and financial situation against the firm's rules, flags mismatches, and drafts the suitability rationale and report for the advisor to confirm, while hard rule failures are decided by deterministic checks, not by the model.

Deployments
2 public, best grade B
Autonomy
Copilot
Banking

AI cash flow underwriting for small business loans

An underwriting engine that assesses a small business's repayment capacity from live bank transactions, point of sale and payment flows, receivables and accounting data instead of audited accounts, and returns a decision recommendation with the evidence and reasons behind it.

Deployments
4 public, best grade B
Autonomy
Supervised agent
Insurance

AI copilot for insurance pricing and actuarial analysis

AI that speeds up the work of pricing and actuarial teams, from automated, transparent risk and demand model building to natural language analysis of rate filings, experience data and reserving diagnostics, while actuaries select the models, sign off the rates and own the professional judgment.

Deployments
5 public, best grade B
Reported productivity gain
5x
Generali France, organization claim
BankingInsurance

AI copilot for model risk validation and monitoring

A copilot for independent model validation and review, whether run by a bank's validation function, an external tester or a supervisor, that checks model documentation against the model risk standard, generates and scores challenger tests (for generative AI, often with an LLM as a judge calibrated against human experts), watches production models for drift and drafts and consistency checks the validation report. An accountable validator owns every conclusion.

Deployments
3 public, best grade B
Autonomy
Copilot
Insurance

AI copilot for underwriting risk assessment

A copilot that assembles everything relevant to a risk (the submission, loss history, internal guidelines, third party data and public information), highlights exposures and gaps against the insurer's underwriting guidelines and drafts the underwriting narrative or referral note, while the underwriter makes and signs every decision.

Deployments
8 public, best grade B
Reported cycle time reduction
50%
Generali Global Corporate & Commercial, vendor claim
BankingPayments and cards

AI credit scoring with alternative data for thin file applicants

A machine learning credit model that adds consumer permissioned alternative data, such as bank account cash flow, rent, utility and telco payments or ecosystem data, to credit bureau data, so a lender can assess applicants with thin or no credit files and return a decision with specific reasons.

Deployments
5 public, best grade B
Autonomy
Supervised agent
Banking

AI early warning and covenant monitoring for loan portfolios

A monitoring system that tracks covenant tests and borrower reporting across a loan book, reads financials, filings and news, and combines them with payment and sector signals to flag borrowers whose credit is deteriorating, with the evidence and a suggested next step for the relationship manager.

Deployments
3 public, best grade C
Autonomy
Assist
Cross industryBanking

AI for continuous controls testing and control self assessment

AI that moves control testing from periodic samples to continuous, full population assurance: it collects evidence from source systems, maps each artefact to the control it supports, tests every transaction or record against the control's rule, flags exceptions for a human to judge and prepares the risk and control self assessment from incident and loss data for the business to review.

Deployments
3 public, best grade B
Autonomy
Supervised agent
Cross industryBanking

AI for IT incident triage and root cause analysis (AIOps)

AI that turns a flood of monitoring alerts into one probable incident, routes it to the right team, proposes likely root causes and remediation from runbooks and past incidents, and drafts the stakeholder updates and the post incident review, while an engineer authorizes every change.

Deployments
5 public, best grade B
Median accuracy
90%
3 deployments
Payments and cardsTechnology and software

AI for merchant underwriting and risk monitoring

AI that helps acquirers, payment facilitators and software platforms with embedded payments decide which merchants to accept and on what terms, by checking what a business really sells and how risky it is at onboarding, and then watches every active merchant for changes in behaviour, ranking the few that need an analyst so fraud, prohibited trade and credit losses are caught early.

Deployments
4 public, best grade B
Reported alert volume reduction
about 89%
Weave Communications, vendor claim
Capital marketsBanking

AI for settlement fail prediction and post trade exception management

AI that scores each pending securities settlement instruction for its likelihood of failing, names the probable cause (unmatched instruction, wrong settlement details, lack of securities or cash), and helps operations teams work the exceptions and counterparty queries before the intended settlement date, so fewer trades fail and fewer late settlement penalties are paid.

Deployments
4 public, best grade B
Autonomy
Copilot
Government and public sector

AI for tax compliance risk scoring and audit selection

Models that score tax returns, taxpayers and transactions for the risk of error, underreporting or fraud, so that a tax administration spends its audit and compliance capacity where the risk is highest, with an officer deciding every compliance action and the selection itself monitored for fairness.

Deployments
3 public, best grade B
Autonomy
Assist
Cross industryBanking

AI for third party and vendor risk due diligence

AI that reviews a vendor's security questionnaires, SOC and assurance reports, contracts and model documentation against the organization's control requirements, researches the vendor's ownership, sanctions, financial health and adverse media, drafts the risk assessment for a human to approve and keeps the register of material service providers current with ongoing monitoring.

Deployments
4 public, best grade B
Autonomy
Copilot
Wealth and asset managementBanking

AI portfolio drift monitoring and rebalancing proposals

Continuous monitoring of every client portfolio against its mandate or model, which detects drift beyond agreed bands and prepares a tax aware, low turnover rebalancing proposal with its rationale for an advisor or portfolio manager to approve before any trade is placed.

Deployments
3 public, best grade B
Autonomy
Copilot
Banking

AI recommendations for loan restructuring and hardship arrangements

An assistant that assembles a stressed borrower's position, tests restructuring options such as a term extension, rate relief, payment holiday or due date change against policy and affordability, and recommends the best fit with a written rationale for a person to approve.

Deployments
1 public, best grade B
Autonomy
Copilot
Cross industryBanking

AI regulatory horizon scanning and obligation mapping

An AI system that continuously reads publications from the regulators and standard setters an organization answers to, classifies each item by relevance and urgency, breaks new rules into individual obligations and maps them to the internal policies and controls that meet them, so compliance owners see what changed and where the gaps are.

Deployments
2 public, best grade B
Autonomy
Assist
Cross industryBanking

AI system and model inventory with shadow AI discovery

A governed register of every AI system and model an organization builds, buys or uses, with its owner, purpose, data, risk tier and approval status, kept current by AI that discovers unregistered use, reads the documentation and assembles the evidence a board, auditor or supervisor asks for.

Deployments
4 public, best grade B
Autonomy
Copilot
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
Cross industryBanking

Generative AI copilot for internal audit

A copilot for internal auditors that drafts planning memos and document request lists from prior audits, summarises large evidence sets, builds risk and control matrices from policies and process documents, and drafts findings and reports, with every statement traceable to its evidence and a qualified auditor accountable for every conclusion.

Deployments
3 public, best grade C
Reported handling time reduction
55%
Banco Bradesco, vendor claim

What the evidence says

Computed from the 74 public deployments behind these use cases. Numbers update with every checked record.

Benchmarks with at least 3 pooled values

Benchmarks across Risk management use cases
KPIMedianReported rangeData pointsClaimed by
Accuracy90%
42% to 98%
32 organization, 1 vendor
Deployments by stage
  • Announced
    6
  • Pilot
    6
  • Production
    46
  • Scaled
    15
  • Paused or rolled back
    1
Public deployments by region
  • North America
    33
  • Europe
    21
  • Global
    9
  • Asia Pacific
    8
  • Latin America
    3

Organizations with a public deployment

Accelerant Holdings, Administration for Children and Families, Airwallex, American International Group, Arch Capital Group, Atlanticus, BNY, Banco Bradesco, Banestes, Belastingdienst, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Bowhead Specialty, British Columbia Investment Management Corporation, Care Quality Commission, Clearstream, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, DBS Bank, Datasite, Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency, EQT, Euroclear, Europ Assistance, European Central Bank (ECB Banking Supervision), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Financial Conduct Authority, Food Standards Agency, Freshfields, GXS Bank, Generali France, Generali Global Corporate & Commercial, Golden 1 Credit Union, Google, HM Revenue and Customs, Hiscox, Internal Revenue Service, Kinsale Capital Group, MAIF, MYbank, Meta, Microsoft, Mizuho Financial Group, Morgan Stanley, National Australia Bank, Nederlandse Arbeidsinspectie, Nederlandse Voedsel- en Warenautoriteit (NVWA), OakNorth Bank, Office of Management and Budget, PNC Financial Services, Patelco Credit Union, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, Rogo, SimCorp, Skyward Specialty Insurance Group, Standard Chartered, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, TD Bank, Tekmetric, U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance, U.S. Trade and Development Agency, Unilever, United Overseas Bank (UOB), Upstart Network, Vanguard, Visa, Weave Communications, XP Inc., Zurich North America, bunq.