FIS Brings Agentic AI to Banking with Anthropic, Starting with Financial Crimes FIS, the financial technology company serving nearly 12% of the global economy, has announced a partnership with Anthropic to introduce agentic AI in the banking sector, beginning with a specialized tool for financial crimes. The collaboration aims to revolutionize anti-money laundering (AML) investigations by drastically reducing the time required to process cases, shifting from hours to minutes. This initiative is part of a broader strategy to develop AI agents tailored for regulated industries, with the Financial Crimes AI Agent serving as the first major proof of concept. The Financial Crimes AI Agent, co-designed by FIS and Anthropic’s Applied AI team, combines Anthropic’s Claude reasoning capabilities with FIS’s extensive banking data and regulatory infrastructure. This integration enables the agent to automatically assemble evidence across a bank’s core systems, evaluate activities against known financial crime typologies, and prioritize high-risk cases for investigator review. BMO and Amalgamated Bank are among the first institutions to pilot the tool, with broader availability planned for the second half of 2026. The partnership emphasizes a secure, auditable environment where client data remains within FIS-controlled infrastructure. Every decision made by the AI agent is traceable, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards. FIS’s roadmap includes expanding the agent-first approach to other critical banking functions, such as credit decisioning, deposit retention, customer onboarding, and fraud prevention. These tools will be delivered through a unified platform, leveraging FIS’s governance frameworks and data analytics capabilities.#anthropic #fis #financial_crimes_ai_agent #bmo #amalgamated_bank
