FIS launches agentic AI for banking with Anthropic
05 May 2026 US
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FIS, a financial technology company has announced it is working with Anthropic to bring agentic AI to banking, beginning with the Financial Crimes AI Agent.
The Financial Crimes AI Agent will compress anti-money laundering (AML) alert and case investigations from days to minutes, reduce false positives and enhance investigative and Suspicious Activity Reports (SAR) narrative quality.
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, combining Claude's reasoning with FIS's banking data and regulatory infrastructure — and establishing the evaluation frameworks and knowledge transfer that will power FIS's broader agent roadmap.
Stephanie Ferris, CEO and president, FIS, notes: “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.”
Jonathan Pelosi, head of financial services, Anthropic, adds: “We embedded our Applied AI team inside FIS to build the Financial Crimes AI Agent together, so every conclusion the agent reaches links back to its source data, and every decision stays with the investigator.”
The Financial Crimes AI Agent will compress anti-money laundering (AML) alert and case investigations from days to minutes, reduce false positives and enhance investigative and Suspicious Activity Reports (SAR) narrative quality.
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, combining Claude's reasoning with FIS's banking data and regulatory infrastructure — and establishing the evaluation frameworks and knowledge transfer that will power FIS's broader agent roadmap.
Stephanie Ferris, CEO and president, FIS, notes: “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.”
Jonathan Pelosi, head of financial services, Anthropic, adds: “We embedded our Applied AI team inside FIS to build the Financial Crimes AI Agent together, so every conclusion the agent reaches links back to its source data, and every decision stays with the investigator.”
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