Financial technology vendor FIS has partnered with AI company Anthropic to introduce new automation tools for banks.
The collaboration centres on deploying FIS Anthropic agentic AI technology to accelerate anti-money laundering investigations and reduce compliance costs.
The first product from the partnership, the Financial Crimes AI Agent, cuts the time required to review suspicious activity.
The system automatically gathers evidence across a bank’s core platforms, checks account activity against known money laundering patterns, and flags high-risk cases for human review.
North American lenders BMO and Amalgamated Bank will be the first financial institutions to deploy the technology.
Broader availability for the tool is scheduled for the second half of 2026.
Anthropic engineers are working directly with FIS to design the initial agent and train the company’s internal teams. This will allow FIS to build future tools independently.
The architecture relies on Anthropic’s Claude models for reasoning. Client data remains entirely within FIS infrastructure to maintain regulatory compliance.
“Every bank in the world wants AI that acts, not just assists. The future is about a trusted provider who manages the data, who governs the agents, and who stands between your customers and the AI making decisions about their money.”
Stephanie Ferris, CEO and President, FIS, said.
Jonathan Pelosi, Head of Financial Services at Anthropic, said FIS provides the regulatory knowledge and transaction data necessary for practical applications.
“They needed a model that could reason through complex investigations accurately, explain its work, and operate safely inside regulated workflows,”
Pelosi said.
Scaling FIS Anthropic agentic AI in banking
Banks currently spend billions annually on compliance operations. A large portion of this cost stems from investigators manually compiling data from disconnected systems before they can begin their analysis.
The new tool connects to both FIS and proprietary bank systems to assemble complete case files at the start of an investigation.
Following the release of the compliance tool, FIS plans to expand its AI roadmap. Future applications will focus on credit decisions, customer onboarding, and fraud prevention.
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